Phnom Penh, Aug. 15 (Xinhua): More than 19,000 hectares of rice paddies in the north-east of Cambodia have been submerged under flood waters for over a week, threatening food-security and livelihoods there, local media said on Tuesday.
An estimated 15,000 hectares of paddy fields in Kompong Thom have been inundated, with 60 percent possibly ruined, while about 3,000 hectares in Preah Vihear have been flooded with 80 percent of fields affected, Nhim Vanda, first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management, was quoted by Cambodian-language newspaper the Kampuchea Thmey as saying.
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