Cambodia News: Cambodia Health

Grace Hopper, a pioneer of computer programming, had a clock that ran backwards and a pirate flag on her office wall. These served as reminders for the ...

At least once a year people go for their health check-up to make sure their health condition is good. But many people don't do their financial health check,” ...

Wellington Zoo's 22-year old Malayan Sun Bear, rescued in Cambodia almost 21 years ago, was euthanised today following recent deterioration of his health.

Australian Unity and Multicultural Care Assist have embarked on a new initiative to provide more targeted and culturally responsive aged care packages and ...

In this age of technology, more often than not we would find children of all ages with their head buried in gadgets – be it smartphones, tablets, or even laptops.

Interim State Health Officer and former State Epidemiologist Dr. Thomas E. Dobbs has been appointed Mississippi's new State Health Officer, the Mississippi ...

The caravan's democracy — Congress strikes #MeToo deal.

Indians can't purchase medicines online legally anymore. On Dec.12, the Delhi high court ordered a complete ban on online pharmacies across the country with ...

The Singapore headquartered mClinica has recently reached a milestone to become the largest pharmacy data technology player in Southeast Asia: its platform ...

The EU ambassador to Cambodia has called human rights “a work in progress” and said the 28-nation bloc has “carefully” noted last week's statement by the ...

Sex workers are at disproportionate risk of violence and sexual and emotional ill health, harms that have been linked to the criminalisation of sex work.

ISESAKI, Gunma Prefecture--As a child, Miyuki Hoshino, now 92, thought about quitting school because her family was so poor. It was wartime Japan, after all.

The summit was hosted under the aegis of the Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Tobacco Control and Prevention of Noncommunicable Disease [AP-CAT], the ...

Cambodia is building two new airports as part of plans to increase tourism arrivals.

NagaWorld joins the Ministries of Environment and Education and City Hall to achieving a cleaner and greener Cambodia.

Currently my role is Senior Lecturer within the Nutrition and Dietetic Department of Cardiff Metropolitan University. I am also a Registered Dietitian.

After completing a week-long trek in Asia, a North Shields resident has now raised £5000 for a good cause.

NDO/VNA – Vietnam will do its utmost to preserve, protect and nurture the solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Cambodia, General Secretary of the ...

BMJ 2018; 363 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k4698 (Published 07 December 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;363:k4698. Article; Related *content*; Metrics ...

LOS BANOS LAGUNA, Dec. 7 — Environment officials from Cambodia and Singapore underwent two-week training courses in the Philippines through the ...

Phnom penh hosted Cambodia's first ocean themed film festival this week, with Siem Reap the next destination for the travelling film showcase. The 2018 Siem ...

Some 860 families from various indigenous minorities lived for generations near the rivers in northeast Cambodia until a Chinese-backed dam flooded the area.

The 23rd Angkor Wat International Half Marathon last Sunday became a huge opportunity for people from different countries to recognise and celebrate the ...

The fourth edition of the forum will be held on December 12 and 13 in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the two-day event.

Since 2001 Cambodia has benefited from an exceptional trading advantage, granted by the European Union thanks to an initiative known as “Everything But ...

MANILA, Philippines — More products made in the Philippines are expected to enter Cambodia's consumer market in the coming months as companies intend ...

On a typical weekday morning, you would expect to find a pre-teen girl sitting in a middle school classroom. You would not expect to find her working on a factory ...

Phnom Penh – Cambodia had reported a total of 15,233 dengue fever cases in the first 11 months this year, an increase of about 50 percent over the same ...

The chairman of the National AIDS Authority (NAA) said on Saturday that Cambodia is successfully combating AIDS, having reached 90 per cent of its 2025 ...

Access to soap in Cambodia; A young, motivated entrepreneur is aiding the poor in an ingenious way: soap. After studying abroad in Cambodia, Samir Lakhani ...

Tomorrow is World AIDS Day. While Cambodia has made remarkable progress in the fight against AIDS, strong and continued investment in HIV programmes is ...

The German Embassy on Thursday announced its first loan to the Kingdom of Cambodia of €30 million ($34.06 million), which will be used to upgrade its rural ...

More than 90% of cases are diagnosed, on treatment and virally suppressed, Public Health England says.

The World Bank on Wednesday released its latest edition of Cambodia's economic outlook, expecting that the Kingdom's economy will grow higher this year ...

Jakub Žák is a photographer who spent more than five years in South-East Asia documenting the work of the Czech Development Agency and other NGOs ...

STAFF from Furness General Hospital were among others seeking to transform the healthcare of Cambodia following the brutal regime of Pol Pot's.

Without political will and robust investments in healthcare, Africa cannot break out of the underdevelopment trap.

A GROUP of volunteer senior students from Kawana Waters State College and staff set off to Cambodia in the September school holidays to work in village ...

BANGKOK — Cambodian and foreign investigating judges issued conflicting rulings on Wednesday on whether a United Nations-backed tribunal, which this ...

In mid-November, for the first time, a United Nations-backed international tribunal called what occurred in Cambodia in the 1970s under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge ...

Diabetes is one of the common causes of death across the globe. In fact, the World Health Organisation has estimated that in 2030, this non communicable ...

The number of drug addicts receiving treatment at health centres across the Kingdom this year has more than doubled compared to the same period last year, ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Police in Cambodia have arrested more than 200 Chinese citizens accused of defrauding people in China over the internet. Gen.

Health security woes, China squeezes Australian farmers, and the Andaman islands: the week that was on The Interpreter.

I. INTRODUCTION. This abbreviated fiscal year (FY) 2019 Malaria Operational Plan (MOP) presents an implementation plan for Cambodia, based on the ...

“If his medical examination shows that he is suffering medical health problems, and then he will be released,” said Zoo Director Sohail Khan. However, if he is ...

Siem Reap November 18, 2018 – Sanofi Cambodia, in collaboration with the Cambodian Diabetes Association (CDA), organised the World Diabetes Day under ...

Dr Tam Wai Jia wants to use her public health degree, made partly possible by the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship, to help Singapore's ageing population ...

Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea are the two most senior living leaders of regime that presided over deaths of at least 1.7 million in Cambodia.

Step into Siem Reap and you will feel as though you have stepped back into time a little bit. It has the feel of how our country used to be, maybe two decades ...

A penal department official with the Interior Ministry raises concerns regarding the spread of communicable diseases.

The key to tackling trauma is a constant, loving caregiver. That makes separating migrant families even more troubling.

Fifteen people have been arrested in Cambodia for allegedly taking part in illegal surrogacy, the Kingdom's anti-trafficking authority says.

Officials in China's Jiangsu province say they will cooperate with Cambodia on healthcare as Sino-Cambodian relations are “at the highest point”, with bilateral ...

A team of medical professionals from Regional Health Command-Pacific's medical treatment facilities and units, in partnership with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command ...

Jayavarman 7th, arguably the most ambitious of Khmer kings, was a great builder: he ordered the construction of many large temples and other public ...

Cambodia's tech sector is blooming and the country's structural challenges might actually be strengths when adapting to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Cambodia has agreed to resume a search effort with the United States for the remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam War, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday, ...

The poverty measurement angered the Cambodian government, which has claimed success in eradicating poverty in Cambodia.

Kong Yam's sight is failing. Having worked all her life, the mother-of-six now struggles to complete everyday activities like making rice porridge for her grandson.

The GE Foundation is committed to expand the Safe Surgery 2020 program in Southeast Asia, with the inclusion of Cambodia and Laos. The foundation ...

Women lured by the chance to escape poverty explain how they have gone from being treated as victims to criminals.

Officials sought INTERPOL intervention to investigate illegal timber smuggling.

Beat Richner, a Swiss pediatrician who opened a network of children's hospitals in Cambodia at a time when quality health care was all but non-existent in that ...

Dr. Richner turned a war-ravaged pediatric hospital in Phnom Penh into a network of five medical centers that now serve one million patients a year.

Cambodian authorities issue a royal pardon for Australian filmmaker James Ricketson, who was last month sentenced to six years in prison for espionage.

Leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party was accused of treason after government crackdown on critics.

The dog meat trade is on the rise in Cambodia with more restaurants serving a growing demand for the controversial food. Despite progress in ...

Beat Richner, a Swiss paediatric doctor and cellist famous for his work in Cambodia, has died at the age of 71 after a serious illness, his foundation said on ...

Poor control of antibiotics has raised the risk of deadly drug resistance developing in Cambodia.

Daughter says the health of the 69-year-old Australian, who was sentenced to six years jail, is failing and he could die in prison.

Australian filmmaker James Ricketson has been sentenced to six years in a Cambodian prison, after being found guilty of spying for an unnamed country.

Villagers threw the fish-shaped, cast-iron ingots into their food and the Lucky Iron Fish slowly released about 7 mg of iron into whatever was being cooked.

The first of its kind program aims to enhance and deliver health services to 500000 Cambodians.

Cambodian authorities should drop all charges and immediately release the opposition leader Kem Sokha.

Vietnam has 206 investment projects in Cambodia, with a total registered investment of $3.02 billion. In the near future, economic cooperation will continue to be ...

In the corridors of Preah Ket Mealea Dialysis Center, where patients with end-stage kidney disease spend hours every day hooked up to blood-purifying ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) said on Monday it had won all 125 parliamentary seats up for grabs in a general election a ...

MANILA — “When you smoke around kids, you expose them to thousands of chemicals that are killing them alive …” begins a public *service* announcement by ...

ALONG the banks of the swollen Mekong, aspiring politicians lead small convoys of vehicles through the countryside. Loudspeakers in the backs of pickups ...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh was a former leader returning to politics, but his severe injury in a head-on collision means Prime Minister Hun Sen is unable to give ...

They're cute, affordable and simple to use. But upon further review, Lucky Iron Fish aren't, perhaps, a legitimate cure to the widespread health problem of ...

At least 32 pregnant Cambodian women have been charged for involvement in human trafficking. The charges come after five suspected leaders of the ...

PHNOM PENH -- The Cambodian government is taking no chances on being challenged at the polls this month, having extended its media crackdown to social.

Police say a Chinese manager appears to be the mastermind behind an illegal “rent a womb” operation at two Phnom Penh apartments.

When a man with an AK-47 shot Mike Poeng outside his West Philadelphia beer deli last month, it was not Poeng's first encounter with a deadly assault-style ...

The Cambodian and Thai Health Ministries sign an agreement for cooperation.

The ministry urged the public not to purchase the illicit products. It said because they were not registered, their origins are unclear and they weren't tested to ...

The United States has imposed sanctions on the commander of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's personal bodyguard unit over human rights abuses.

Singapore Medical Centre (SGMC), managed under DrMap Cambodia, held an engaging talk on “Women's Health” last week. The theme focused on the ...

CAMBODIANS are more prosperous than at any time in their history, but the pressure of modern life is taking a toll on the health of the nation.

The Health Ministry has issued advice to be careful about the Ebola virus disease.

On International Nurses' Day, three nurses tell their surprising stories of how life has led them to places as far afield as Cambodia and the Antarctic.

PHNOM PENH, May 10 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday delivered the first batch of 20 mobile clinics to Cambodia in order to serve the country's rural communities ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A senior Cambodian health official says 14 villagers whose sudden deaths were thought to have been caused by polluted water ...

Australian filmmaker James Ricketson is transferred to a prison hospital in Cambodia with various health complaints as he awaits trial on espionage charges.

As new waves of the disease threaten the globe, worried scientists want to conduct a mass inoculation in a Cambodian region where new vaccines always seem ...

by Dr Yunguo Liu If you or a member of your family had a heart attack, was badly injured in a traffic collision, or was diagnosed with diabetes, would you be able ...

On the 10th October 2017, a ceremony was held at the WHO regional office in Manila, The Philippines, to celebrate the elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF) in ...

Rates of tuberculosis are among the highest globally in Cambodia, where decades of conflict and economic hardship have left people with low levels of health ...