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...infectious disease in the world, after HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, and most of its victims are children. With the help of tens of millions of dollars from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and various governments, the global health community - from biochemical engineers in Berkeley, Calif., to village volunteers in Battambang, Cambodia - is racing to eliminate the increasingly resistant parasite before it's too late. This week, the Global Fund signed off on a $220 million-plus project called the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm), a controversial two-year program that will drop the price of the recommended malaria treatment...
...with luxurious rain showers (perfect for washing off any dust accumulated during your rambles through Angkor Wat). Evenings should be spent dining on the fabulously spicy cuisine at the hotel's restaurant, Meric, aptly named for a locally grown pepper. Don't miss Australian chef Paul Hutt's grilled Battambang snake and green mango salad. Afterwards, take a digestif in the Arts Lounge?La Paix's innovative live music bar-cum-art gallery...
...with luxurious rain showers (perfect for washing off any dust accumulated during your rambles through Angkor Wat). Evenings should be spent dining on the fabulously spicy cuisine at the hotel's restaurant, Meric, aptly named for a locally grown pepper. Don't miss Australian chef Paul Hutt's grilled Battambang snake and green mango salad. Afterwards, take a digestif in the Arts Lounge - La Paix's innovative live music bar-cum-art gallery. Spa lovers will be delighted with the hotel's five-roomfacility, Spa Indochine, and its sensuous array of Eastern therapies. For those who crave more meaningful contact...
...family's saga does not end there. Not long ago, Seng received news from Cambodia about his daughters: in 1975 they had been sent to a work camp in the western province of Battambang and assigned to dig irrigation ditches. Seng Ly died of malaria and malnutrition. She was ten years old. But Theary somehow survived. Married and the mother of three small children, she was reunited last month in Phnom Penh with her brother Neang. There were tears at the reunion -- and many overdue smiles...
...Khmer Rouge, whose genocidal rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1978 invited the invasion of Vietnamese troops, really attacked the capital, Phnom Penh? Had Prime Minister Hun Sen been forced to flee to Viet Nam? Was Battambang, the country's second largest city, truly "burning brightly," as Khmer Rouge radio claimed? Amid the welter of conflicting reports coming out of Cambodia last week, all that seemed clear was that the level of hostilities was growing. The Khmer Rouge, one of three resistance groups fighting the Hun Sen regime, did toss six grenades in downtown Phnom Penh -- though without frightening away...