HIGHLIGHTS

• Food purchasing power of households increased in rural and urban areas by 9.1% and 0.4% month-on-month, respectively.

• Retail price of lowest quality rice decreased in rural areas by 3.8% and increased in urban areas by 0.2% month-on-month.

• Wholesale price of mixed rice increased by 2.2% month-on-month and decreased by 10.9% year-on-year.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Food purchasing power of households increased in rural and urban areas by 1.7% and 0.3% month-on-month, respectively.

• Retail price of lowest quality rice decreased by 1.1% in rural areas and increased by 1.5% in urban areas on a month-on-month basis.

• Wholesale price of mixed rice increased by 0.6% month-on-month and decreased by 2.2% year-on-year.

HIGHLIGHTS

9 JULY 2012 - As part of the continuing investigations into the undiagnosed illness, the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia is finalizing the review of all suspected hospitalised cases. This final review added an additional two cases between April to 5 July 2012, making the total number of children affected to be 59. Of these, 52 have died.

The age of the cases range from three months to 11 years old, with the majority being under three years old. The overall male: female ratio is 1.3:1.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Food purchasing power of households slightly increased in both rural and urban areas by 1% and 0.4% month-on-month, respectively.

• Retail price of lowest quality rice increased by 2.2% in rural areas but decreased by 0.8% in urban areas, on a month-onmonth basis.

• Wholesale price of mixed rice decreased by 4.4% month-on-month and by 4.5% year-on-year.

• Export price of Thai and Vietnamese rice, benchmarks for Asia, both slightly increased by 1.5% and 1% month-on-month, respectively.

Rural Cambodians Face High Risk from Climate Change

Cambodia Human Development Report 2011 launched in Phnom Penh

PHNOM PENH, 30 AUGUST 2011: UNDP Cambodia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economy and Finance, today launched the 2011 Cambodia Human Development Report (CHDR), which clearly identifies climate change as a threat to human development gains and a source of increasing vulnerability for the poor and near poor.

On September 29, 2009 at 9:00 am Local Cambodia Time (LCT), at the latitude from 0o N to 40o N and the longitude from 85o E to 140o E, the rather intense monsoon trough lies across Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Viet Nam. It is connected with the Typhoon "KETSANA" (0916), with its central pressure 970 hPa, located at latitude 16o0 N, longitude 110o2 E, over Viet Nam. The Typhoon is moving to West with its speed 15 km/h and maximum wind speed 130 km/h in the centre of TY. The TY trough lies across Lao PDR, Cambodia and Thailand.