These include Kampong Cham (the most populous region of Cambodia) and other areas long coveted or controlled by Vietnam.

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Just a few metres from the shore is a tiny kampong with a few restaurants, all set in traditional, single-storey wooden shops.

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He came from the Kampong Cham province in central Cambodia and died after developing fever, coughing and difficulty breathing earlier this month.

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In neighboring Cambodia, the storm knocked down 92 houses in Kampong Thom province, about 80 miles (130 km) north of the capital Phnom Penh.

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Im Thou, a public-communications officer in the Kampong Speu provincial police station outside Phnom Penh, said authorities had found three people dead and six injured after the accident occurred around 7 a.m.

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