Japan donates more than eight million dollars to Cambodian vicitms

Japan is to provide eight-point-five million dollars in assistance to the victims of devastating floods which hit Cambodia late last year.

The disaster, which claimed more than 300 lives, is estimated to have cost Cambodia, one of Asia's poorest nations, nearly 80 million dollars.

The French Red Cross in Cambodia this week announced 360-thousand dollars for 32 schools in rural regions devastated by the floodwaters.

Floods are an annual event in Cambodia, but last year unusually heavy rains which also drenched neighbouring Laos and Vietnam caused water levels in the Mekong River to rise sharply.

9/03/01 13:05:49 | ABC Radio Australia News

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