{"id":677,"date":"2009-10-02T19:55:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/?p=677"},"modified":"2009-10-02T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T11:55:01","slug":"siem-reap-town-submerged-as-main-river-burst-its-banks-following-typhoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/current-affairs\/siem-reap-town-submerged-as-main-river-burst-its-banks-following-typhoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Siem Reap town submerged as main river burst its banks following typhoon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From The Phnom Penh Post today.<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Siem Reap<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mosimage\" style=\"width: 350px; float: right;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phnompenhpost.com\/images\/stories\/news\/national\/2009\/091002\/091002_01f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mosimage_caption\" style=\"width: 350px;\">\n<div><strong>Photo by: AFP <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>A Cambodian boy stands on Thursday amid the wreckage of his house, damaged the day before by Typhoon Ketsana in Kampong Thom province.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>IEM Reap found itself underwater Thursday after the downpour from Ketsana caused the swollen Siem Reap River to burst its banks.<br \/>\nThe entire downtown area was submerged in waist-high water, and the city\u2019s social epicentre, Pub Street, was awash.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday night, the local death toll had risen to three, with provincial Chief of Cabinet Ly Samreth saying, \u201cThe flooding is more serious than before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Khmer man died in Siem Reap town on Wednesday when he fell into an open pipe and drowned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that business people were losing money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCambodian people and businesses are losing money because they cannot work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 30 percent of the market stalls have remained open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Road 6 was flooded in seven places and 241 schools were also flooded \u2013 95 of which had to close.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial officials reported 17 people injured and 60 homes destroyed, although some rural areas had yet to report.<\/p>\n<p>Observers reported an almost festive feel as children capitalised on the crisis. Some were seen steering remote-controlled toy boats through waterlogged streets; others used polystyrene lids as makeshift surfboards. Several people dragged nets through town in the hope of catching fish.<\/p>\n<p>Upstream, the situation was more serious, with reports of flash floods. In drier rural areas, people complained of being invaded by centipedes and other fauna seeking shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities said they were preparing food and medicine to take to Sonikum district, which suffered the worst effects of the weather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Phnom Penh Post today. Siem Reap \u00a0 Photo by: AFP A Cambodian boy stands on Thursday amid the wreckage of his house, damaged the day before by Typhoon Ketsana in Kampong Thom province. SIEM Reap found itself underwater&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/current-affairs\/siem-reap-town-submerged-as-main-river-burst-its-banks-following-typhoon\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}