View of the Mekong river before sunset in Laos NONG KHAI, 18 August 2008 (IRIN) - It is 4pm and Pranee Soongkhaeng is hurriedly piling up sandbags in a bid to prevent flooding in front of her shop on
There are 22 flood monitoring stations in the four countries that are members of the MRC -- Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam -- who are in the lower basin of this river. The MRC is also benefiting from the two flood warning stations in China's
me. The first time I heard Samson speaking Mandarin I mistook him for Chinese. 'No, no, I'm from Laos. Do you know the Khmer Rouge?' he asks, referring to the Cambodian regime during the 1970s that killed an estimated 1.5 million Cambodians and disrupted
from a typhoon, flash flooding happens very quickly.? ? Flooding has also hit parts of Thailand, Cambodia and Laos as well as Myanmar, where waters rose in the Irrawaddy Delta, which is still recovering from a cyclone that left 138,000 people dead or
from a typhoon, flash flooding happens very quickly.? ? Flooding has also hit parts of Thailand, Cambodia and Laos as well as Myanmar, where waters rose in the Irrawaddy Delta, which is still recovering from a cyclone that left 138,000 people dead or
near the hill tribe resort area of Sa Pa. Flooding has also hit parts of Thailand, Cambodia and Laos as well as Burma, where waters rose in the Irrawaddy Delta, still recovering from a cyclone that left 138,000 people dead or missing in May. The floods
from a typhoon, flash flooding happens very quickly.? ? Flooding has also hit parts of Thailand, Cambodia and Laos as well as Myanmar, where waters rose in the Irrawaddy Delta, which is still recovering from a cyclone that left 138,000 people dead or