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...rehydration for pediatricians, hospital staff, pharmacists and - most importantly - health workers and volunteers in tiny, remote villages. The country has also developed a system to track outbreaks so that doctors and scientists can work to prevent repeats. That's in contrast to most of Africa and to neighboring Burma, Cambodia and Laos, which Wandee says resist public counts of diarrhea cases lest they put off foreign investors and tourists. "If the governments do their job and allow ngos to reach down to the community level," Wandee says, "we could save more people. We could prevent 2 million deaths a year...
...years ago they would come here with impunity to do what they want and leave," the investigator said. "They are still coming to Cambodia but... they've got to be a little bit smarter...
...years ago, Cambodia was the number one destination for pedophiles," the investigator said. Now, he added, the Web sites identify the country as a risk. Cambodia is still a destination for child abusers but it has been surpassed in the last two years by even more lawless places such as the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and Guatemala...
...Rather than cease coming to Cambodia, pedophiles will become smarter and also harder to track, as they branch out of Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville and into the provinces, such as the tourist town of Siem Reap and free-wheeling Koh Kong and Poipet on the Thai border, she warned. The majority of the country's rural areas don't have a specialized anti-trafficking and juvenile protection force like that operated by Keo Thea in the capital...
...though the government may have the political will to combat pedophiles, it will also need to allocate physical and legal resources, Chanthol Oung said. Pedophiles are adapting to the new regime, and are working together in networks for safety and studying the loopholes in Cambodia law that could see them walk free if they are arrested, Chanthol Oung warned. "They are still coming, but they are being smarter," she said. Which means the authorities will have to stay even smarter if they are to have more success rooting out "tourists" who are no longer welcome...