CAMBODIA: More food aid from Australia

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Updated February 13, 2008 21:08:10

While Cambodia's economy has been growing rapidly in some areas, millions of Cambodians continue to go hungry each year, with some forced to survive on a single bowl rice a day. Now the World Food Programme has received an extra $US3.5 million from Australia, to get food to the country's poorest and most vulnerable.

Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speakers: Thomas Keusters, Country Director of the World Food Program in Cambodia; Son Chhay, Opposition Member of the Cambodian parliament and Chairman of its Foreign Affairs Committee

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