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Chinese Academy of Sciences has provided technical support to assist Pakistan in building its infrastructure and mitigating natural disasters, Cao Jinghua, ...

DALIAN, China -- Japanese-style hot springs or onsen are bubbling up across East and Southeast Asia as Japanese companies and others tout the wonders.

Former ASEAN secretary-general Rodolfo Severino Jr passes away on April 19, 2019, at the age of 82. Here's how I remember him.

OUTDOOR running has become one of Malaysians' best-loved sports activities.

No Chinese ready-to-eat meals (MREs) with pork ingredients have been imported into Taiwan, the Customs Administration said yesterday after a netizen posted ...

My husband, a Vietnam vet who was exposed to Agent Orange and died in 2006, dedicated his benefits to aid an affected group that got scant help: people in ...

Sihanoukville, the coastal city and only deep sea port of Cambodia, is no longer a sleepy, undeveloped town for backpackers. This is a fact that should be ...

With Daniel Lippman. BROWNSTEIN HYATT WILL LOBBY FOR CAMBODIA: The government of Cambodia has hired Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck to lobby ...

A program to allow veterans to receive care outside of the VA got mixed reviews over the past few years. Critics say “Veterans Choice” was rushed and.

The ABC News correspondent may be a master meditator, author and father now, but his life has also been a rollercoaster.

by Mao Pengfei, Nguon Sovan. KAMPONG CHAM, Cambodia, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Sum Meyle, a mother of five children, was on cloud nine when she heard that ...

Weekly Cabinet Resolutions BANGKOK, 19 April 2019 (NNT) - The Cabinet's meeting this week resulted in many resolutions, including preparations for the ...

It is a wonder we let fetuses inside us. Unlike almost all other animals, hundreds of thousands of humans die because of their pregnancies every year, making a ...

With the current resurgence of measles two decades after it was eliminated, the United States is going backward with measles, leading US experts are warning.

Cambodia has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus among poultry, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) ...

Two young men sit under the shade of trees in Takeo, Cambodia; Se Bros wears a button-up shirt and jeans and Monk Ry wears his deep orange garb.

Last year, the Trump administration deported a record number of Cambodians from the United States. On the surface, these deportations appear to be another ...

Only eight months into the job, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie's moves now could define his department for generations to come.

Cambodia's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ministry said it will need continued help from civil society and international organisations in order to prevent.

Chreav commune, Siem Reap City – When Om Samath arrived at the provincial referral hospital last year to undergo eye surgery, she knew the operation would ...

Forty years ago, in 1978, as Cambodia was facing its gravest hour, the countries of the world gathered in Alma-Ata in the Soviet Union to recognise health as a ...

The Cambodian government has approved the “Draft National Policy on School Health” after hearing reports and holding discussions at a Council of Ministers ...

Taipei – Visitors from Cambodia who attempt to bring pork products into Taiwan will be fined NT$200,000 (US$6,490), the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health ...

Milvik (Cambodia) Micro Insurance Plc, a mobile-based firm which offers health and insurance products to customers in Cambodia, won the 2019 Best Mobile ...

Vinny Eng would seem to have a good thing going. But Eng is stepping away from all of it — from Tartine, from restaurants, from wine. This week he starts a new ...

A prestigious international visitor has praised the work on the electronic patient record (EPR) at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust ...

The Hong Kong Science Museum is playing host to a digital installation showcasing five types of whale and dolphin in a 'virtual aquarium'.

KANTUOT VILLAGE, Cambodia – When Bora was pregnant with her fifth child, she prepared to “cross the river.” In the Khmer language, “crossing the river” is a ...

Though we now live in a digital age, it is not uncommon to see nurses handwriting information or browsing physical files on the shelf searching for information in ...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is an ardent follower of Pol Pot a dictator whose Khmer Rouge government led Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, Professor ...

African Swine Fever (ASF) is continuing on its spread through Vietnam with rapid pace. Yesterday the news broke that an outbreak was confirmed in a village in ...

The Japanese government yesterday agreed to provide funds to provincial health departments and the Angkor Hospital for Children in order to help children ...

Now 51 years old, Chhim Sotheara lost his childhood as he spent his formative years living in the thick of civil war, genocide and conflict. And while he is unable ...

BANGKOK — A Cambodian court has issued arrest warrants for eight opposition leaders who fled abroad for safety but say they are now trying to return.

Image Gallery of Catholic,Religious & Christian Photos.Many victims unable to get adequate health care or meaningful compensation as the law requires ...

Phnom Penh – About 538 people were newly infected with HIV in 2018 in Cambodia, remarkably down from 2,562 a decade ago, Health Minister Mam Bunheng ...

Recent analyses show that being large and wealthy as a nation doesn't necessarily lead to having a happy and healthy population. Considering a number of ...

This is one of dozens of photographs of Cambodian citizens, taken by journalist and UW alum Elizabeth Becker on her tour of the country in 1978.Elizabeth ...

Dengue fever is a major public health concern in many parts of South-East Asia and South America and its prevalence in Africa is thought to be expanding.

The Mekong region is frequently affected by natural disasters associated with climate change such as floods, droughts and typhoons. Cambodia, Lao PDR ...

Dengue fever is a major public health concern in many parts of South-East Asia and South America and its prevalence in Africa is thought to be expanding.

The Health Ministry is calling on people who are showing symptoms of rabies, to seek immediate or scheduled vaccination.

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.

Coffee – an elixir of life – discovered six centuries ago, has grown to be the champion of all brews in this century. Why is this so? Is coffee beneficial to health?

A record 126 Cambodian refugees were deported from the U.S. in 2018. Now they must adjust to living in a country many of them hadn't seen in decades.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

When floodwaters swept a chunk of riverbank into the Mekong just south of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Sun Ramaly managed to save her clothes and ...

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 ...

First, there was a 4.5-ton sticky-rice cake. Then came the longest scarf ever and other oddball world records. They were all part of Prime Minister Hun Sen's plan ...

America is deporting Cambodian refugees convicted of crimes. Did the U.S. have a responsibility to help them when they first arrived as refugees?

Since early 2015, Plastic Free Cambodia (PFC) has been the public voice for plastic free awareness in the region. Plastic Free Cambodia might seem like an ...

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 ...

Speculation about succession by Hun Sen's eldest son is an interesting talking point – that could go on a while yet.

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

Charles Dunst is a journalist based in Phnom Penh. He was written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the South China Morning …

Lawyers stall removal orders as dozens more are sent back.

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

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

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More than 30 women charged with human trafficking for serving as surrogate mothers are released from detention in Cambodia, a nation where the average ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

The West Australian Health Department has issued a warning after an adult was infected with measles while holidaying in Cambodia.

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

About 24 percent of deaths in Cambodia are caused by cardiovascular diseases.

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.

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A senior Khmer Rouge figure who ran Cambodia's most notorious prison during the genocidal regime is in intensive care in hospital, ...

HONOLULU, Oct. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Highly trained and valuably skilled ophthalmologists from across the U.S., Canada, England and Asia joined ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

Documentary maker James Ricketson is sentenced to six years in a Cambodian prison for espionage, despite a prosecution that offered little evidence to ...

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.

Many of the capital Phnom Penh's poorest people have been relegated to living in areas that puts their health at risk.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) Voting is under way in Cambodia's general election. Officially, there are 20 different political parties on Sunday's ballot. But for ...

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

Scientists are racing to stamp out the disease in southeast Asia before unstoppable strains spread.

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.

English News and Press Release on Cambodia about Health and Children; published on 24 Apr 2018 by UNICEF.

This year's World Health Day marks the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Kumanan Rasanathan, coordinator of health ...

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 ...