BBC Cambodia has declared Thursday a national day of mourning after at least 345 people were killed in a stampede in the capital Phnom Penh. Hundreds more were injured when people were crushed on a small island on the final day of the Water Festival. The stampede took place on a bridge, which eyewitnesses said [...]
Hundreds die in tragic end to water festival
The Phnom Penh Post Hundreds died and hundreds more were injured last night in a stampede on Diamond Island’s north bridge, bringing a tragic close to the final day of water festival celebrations in Phnom Penh. Prime Minister Hun Sen announced via video conference at 2:30am that 339 people had been confirmed dead and 329 [...]
Stampede in Cambodia kills hundreds, government says
(CNN) — A stampede that occurred during a festival in Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh has killed 339 people, officials said Monday. Another 329 people were injured in the crush, said Philip Bader, a news editor with the Phnom Penh Post, citing information given by Prime Minister Hun Sen in a televised address. Visalsok [...]
Hundreds dead following Water Festival bridge stampede
Expat Advisory At least 339 Water Festival revellers were killed according to official estimates and hundreds more were rushed to hospital following a stampede on Koh Pich (Diamond Island) bridge around 10pm last night. Prime Minister, Hun Sen, said the death toll had reached 339 by around 2.30am but authorities are expected to revise the [...]
Argentine Supreme Court freezes border river dam plans
AFP BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s Supreme Court suspended Friday for 90 days the construction of a dam on the Ayui Grande over fears it could hurt the continent’s second-largest wetland. The Judicial Information Center said the freeze would remain in place ahead of an expected government evaluation of the environmental impact of the dam, due [...]
Naled and brilliant ices in the Cool Parks of the North
By Paul Stewart for Mouth to Source From the world’s coldest capital Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia where a typical winter temperature drops to a deep freezing minus 20C, a small group of researchers are studying a phenomenon known in local parlance as ‘Galan mos’ or ‘brilliant ice’. In Russian where this ice form is somewhat better documented [...]
Fish stocks dwindle as trawlers empty Asia’s seas
By M. Jegathesan for AFP PENANG, Wednesday 10 November 2010 - Overfishing in Southeast Asian seas has left garoupas and sea bass in dire straits, searching for mates on denuded seabeds, according to experts alarmed by ever-declining catches. Marine scientists and fishermen say that popular fish species — especially the large and valuable ones — [...]
How the Observer brought the WWF into being
It is 50 years since Julian Huxley, writing on the plight of African animals in the Observer, inspired the creation of the World Wildlife Fund writes Kate Kellaway. Almost exactly 50 years ago the Observer published – on 13 November 1960 – the first of three extraordinarily influential articles by Julian Huxley that led to [...]
