Floods Threaten to Starve Cambodians

October 05, 2011 from Al Jazeera English

With one million total affected and 150 dead, the tolls of Cambodia's worst flooding in 10 years continue to rise. Now, with a tenth of the nation's farmlands destroyed and more rains expected, hunger is fast becoming a very likely threat in Cambodia. Al Jazeera's Stephanie Scawen reports from Phnom Penh on the devastating affects of continued flooding throughout the region.

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