Nov 29 2011 in accident, Cambodia, festival, The Mekong River, tributary of the mekong by Paul Stewart
Mom Kunthear for the Phnom Penh Post Relatives of those who died in the stampede on the bridge to Koh Pich last year said they had to force themselves to attend yesterday’s ceremony inaugurating a stupa built to commemorate the lives of the disaster’s 353 victims. “I started crying when I saw my son’s name [...]
Tags: Cambodian Water Festival, Kep Chuktema, Koh Pich, Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation, prayers, reincarnation, stampede, stupa, water festival
Nov 2 2011 in Cambodia, flooding, health, livelihoods, mekong ecoregion, refugee, resettlement, Thailand, The Mekong River, tributary of the mekong by Paul Stewart
Earth Observatory Thailand and Cambodia continued to cope with widespread flooding at the beginning of November 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image on November 1, 2011. For comparison, the bottom image shows the same area three years earlier, on November 12, 2008. These images use a [...]
Tags: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, NASA, The Chao Phraya River, The Tonlé Sap Lake