Oozing Matters: Infracycles of “Waste Management” and Emergent Naturecultures in Phnom Penh

Benefit of composting application over landfill on municipal solid waste management in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

This paper presents an insight into benefits of organic waste recycling through composting over landfill on municipal solid waste management in Phnom Penh, in terms of greenhouse gases (GHGs) mitigation. Future waste generation from 2003 to 2020 was forecasted and four scenarios of organic waste recycling were carried out. Organic wastefood and garden wastewere used for composting and the rem...

Melioidosis, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

We describe 58 adult patients with melioidosis in Cambodia (2007-2010). Diabetes was the main risk factor (59%); 67% of infections occurred during the rainy season. Bloodstream infection was present in 67% of patients, which represents 12% of all bloodstream infections. The case-fatality rate was 52% and associated with inappropriate empiric treatment.

WEEE/E-waste Management Report Phnom Penh Municipality Kingdom of Cambodia

Incipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: Acoustic and perceptual studies

Unlike many languages of Southeast Asia, Khmer (Cambodian) is not a tone language. However, in the colloquial speech of the capital Phnom Penh, /r/ is lost in onsets, reportedly supplanted by a range of other acoustic cues such as aspiration, a fallingor low-rising f0 contour, breathy voice quality, and in some cases diphthongization, e.g. /krA:/ ‘poor’ > [kÒA], [khǑA], [kO ̈ A ̈ ], /kru:/ ‘teach...

Case histories of infectious disease management in developing countries: Phnom Penh and Kabul.

Healthcare in developing countries is affected by severe poverty, political instability and diseases that may be of lesser importance in industrialized countries. The aim of this paper was to present two cases and histories of physicians working in hospitals in developing countries and to discuss the opportunities for clinical investigation and collaboration. Cases of patients in Phnom Penh, Ca...