Word: cambodians
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...Ngan isn't worried about bird flu. In a Phnom Penh market stall encrusted with chicken excrement, the 30-year-old Cambodian sells live birds shipped fresh each morning from farms that border Vietnamese provinces that have been struck hard by the disease. But Ngan is confident her merchandise is safe. Her chickens "are exposed to the sunlight and can eat from the earth," she explains, "so the disease does not affect them." Besides, she adds, "only foreign chickens are affected, not the local ones...
...battle against bird flu hinges on information, cooperation and quick response?if the disease is spreading under the radar in Cambodia, it could wreck regional control efforts. With the help of the WHO, Cambodian officials have begun to slowly step up surveillance and education programs. But to contain the disease, Cambodia and its neighbors would need to radically modernize their animal husbandry practices, separating species (ducks are able to spread the virus without showing symptoms), keeping birds in pens and properly vaccinating flocks. The trouble is, such measures would require hundreds of millions of dollars to educate and equip poor...
...distant worry. That complacency is both understandable and dangerous. "A problem in a remote part of the world becomes a world problem overnight," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week. If so, the blind faith of a Cambodian chicken seller in the preventative powers of sunlight and local earth should be ample cause for international concern...
...past few years, several high-end restaurants in Singapore that served fusion cuisine?like the Japanese-European Centro 360?have closed. Others have refashioned their menus to make them more representative of one culinary culture. Last year, Weibel changed the focus of Raffles' Jaan restaurant from French-Cambodian to modern French. At Equinox, on top of the adjacent Raffles City complex, he has gone to great lengths to assure diners that they can choose between "pure Western and pure Asian cuisine," cooked in two separate kitchens...
...what else can you say about democracy in Cambodia except that we are now doing a U-turn to a dictatorship?" UNG BUN ANG, spokesman for Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who fled the country following a government ruling that would allow him to be tried for allegedly libeling Prime Minister...