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Four-year-old Puthiraskmey Sopheak and her family came to Boston from Cambodia just months ago. She fell suddenly ill and died of flu Saturday, a tragic start ...

Netmeds is well known to most Indian cricket fans. After all, large logos of the online pharmacy company were emblazoned on cricket grounds during India's ...

President of the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) Ke Kim Yan has instructed officials at all levels to focus on getting the Kingdom's 18000 drug ...

In the fight against addiction, abuse and sex trafficking, 148 Ministries has found powerful weapons in fitness and faith.The Greenwood-based organization ...

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PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) – Cambodia has reported zero death from malaria in 2018, achieving its self-imposed target three years earlier, director of the National ...

The Japanese government has granted World Vision Japan $400384, under the framework of the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects, to complete its ...

The first Cambodian woman candidate will seek a seat on the City Council—potentially against one of Long Beach's most famed sons, no less.

Vietnam and Cambodia are two countries that enjoy a long-standing relationship. The necessity to establish cooperation between Vietnam and Cambodia has a ...

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AUSTRALIA is free of rabies, but tragically the virus kills about 59000 people every year, 40 per cent of them children in Asia and Africa, according to the World ...

Withdrawing Cambodia's EBA privileges might not do more harm than good.

LOWELL -- A 4-year-old Lowell girl is the suspected victim of the second flu-associated pediatric death in Middlesex County this season, and the third in the ...

A ten-day trek through the wilds of Cambodia later this year won't be the toughest test ever undertaken by Birstall dad Mark Waters.

Japan has been steadfast in supporting Cambodia's growth path for over three decades or so. The Japanese government through Japan International ...

Two Banbury opticians have helped improve the eye health of the people of Cambodia.

Health Minister Mam Bun Heng has issued an advisory to all people telling them to take prophylactic measures for the oncoming hot weather period.

Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah today contacted Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn to express Malaysia's aspiration to see that all 47 ...

Cambodia is an expatriate hotspot for those dreaming of living a more luxurious lifestyle at an affordable cost, according to International Living's Annual Global ...

MANHATTAN, KANSAS, U.S. — The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research and Sustainable Intensification (SIIL) at Kansas State University ...

More than 100 medical practitioners will take part in the mission, which is the ninth annual mission carried out by CHPAA.

Temperatures between the end of March and late May are expected to be above average and reach a high of 42 Celsius this year, the Ministry of Water ...

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cambodia celebrated the inauguration of its first community center, commonly called a “Center of Influence,” in the city of ...

The attacks are typically aimed at a person's face and the acid quickly eats through eyes, ears, skin, and bone. Victims of such traumatic events are entitled to ...

The Ministry of Environment has dismissed “rumours” that the current chronic smog gripping Thai capital Bangkok will spread to Cambodia, saying that, unlike its ...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Tuesday that a large number of public servants in the kingdom ...

Survivors of acid attacks in Cambodia are being denied free government treatment that they are legally entitled to, Human Rights Watch says. Its report focused ...

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The Health Ministry has published a list of more than 400 health centres offering treatment for mental disorders and drug abuse.

It is lunchtime and children rushed seemingly from nowhere. The cafeteria that can accommodate about 400 people soon became noisy with children's laughter.

Since the Cambodian government started a war on drugs in 2017, the number of prisoners has considerably increased. Among them are pregnant women ...

Global investments in malaria control and elimination are now at risk of being rapidly reversed. Cambodia is where malarial drug resistance historically emerges ...

THE Office of the UN Resident Coordinator expressed concern on Thursday that some migrants working in Thailand are not enrolled in public health insurance ...

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The Cambodian health minister reminded all the people in the kingdom to avoid activities during the Chinese New Year festivities that might result in getting the ...

The Angkor Hospital for Children has already come a long way since it treated its first child patient in 1999. Khmer Times' Peter Olszewski writes about how the ...

AROUND 40 paid NHS 'volunteers' have been sent to the actress's Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation in the past decade despite the star being worth an estimated ...

The Kingdom of Cambodia is known for its good relation¬ships with other nations. With India being one of its strongest bilateral partners, Khmer Times spoke to ...

When she was 14 years old, Diana Chao began having migraines. She often felt dizzy as she walked. Sunlight seemed to pierce her skull.

Pyschologists and mental health experts said on Sunday that mental illness is curable, but there is a lack of understanding of it among Cambodians, causing ...

Worldwide, 500000 women suffer from cervical cancer each year, 80 per cent of them from developing countries. At least 200000 of these women will die, and ...

Cambodia's Hun Sen at a 7 January ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime (Photo: Tang Chhin Sothy via Getty) ...

Wafers made of fish protein could save thousands of severely malnourished Asian children.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, 17 December 2018: A new fish-based wafer snack – Nutrix, has been developed to treat severe acute malnutrition in children by ...

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,” ...

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.

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

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Cambodian women who were charged with human trafficking for serving as surrogate mothers have been provisionally released from detention after agreeing to ...

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 ...

On Nov. 16, a fraught war crimes tribunal in Cambodia found former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty of genocide.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Construction on the Cambodia-China Friendship Medical building at Preah Kossamak hospital started yesterday and is expected to be completed in three years.

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday broke ground for the construction of a new building in the China-Cambodia Friendship Preah ...

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

A WA adult has been infected with measles while holidaying in Cambodia, prompting a Health Department warning. People may have been exposed on October ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Council of Ministers on Friday approved the $6791249000 budget for 2019 as laid out by the Ministry of Finance – an 11.4 per ...

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

Big data, AI, and digital technologies: Cambodia's nascent tech sector is blooming.

A senior Khmer Rouge figure who ran Cambodia's most notorious prison during the genocidal regime is in intensive care in hospital, but his health ...

In Cambodia, about one in five people is extremely poor. They can neither afford doctors' fees nor mere trips to a hospital. A new health fund is covering such ...

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

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

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.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on August 20 is cooperated with CP Cambodia to host a workshop on knowledge and prevention of African ...

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.

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.

The Ministry of Health warned the public not to buy the Glutaone 600 and Firmax 3 products as they were illegally distributed and could lead to serious health ...

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 ...

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

PHNOM PENH — Lucky Iron Fish were once a common sight in many Cambodian cooking pots. Villagers threw the fish-shaped, cast-iron ingots into their food ...

The Ministry of Health's Communicable Disease Control Department (CDC) has warned the public to beware of the seasonal strain of influenza H1N1, also ...

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

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

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

The son of an Australian filmmaker detained in Cambodia for 12 months without trial says now is a critical juncture for the Australian Government to put ...

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.

Former vice chairman of General Electric John G. Rice, who is a government advisor, has pledged to help build the capacity of Cambodia's human resources, ...

From expeditions in Antarctica to rescuing swimmers, three nurses tell their surprising stories.

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 ...

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 ...

Mental health problems are widespread in Cambodia but many patients receive limited treatment.