The normality of their behaviour belies the problems they face. Every year during the rainy season from September to January, the Chamroeun community located in Meanchey district, Phnom

Flash floods killed eight people, many of them children, in southern coastal areas and eastern provinces along the swelling Mekong River.

A man was killed on Wednesday when his boat sank in a storm on the Mekong, police officials said.

A lightning strike killed a pregnant woman in the northern province of Kampong Chhnang as she walked home in the rain after planting rice.

"The situation has eased a little in some areas from two days ago, but we are still getting many reports

Foreword

In the past few years, the countries and areas of the Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization and the East Asia and Pacific Region of the United Nations Children’s Fund have experienced numerous communicable disease outbreaks.
These public health emergencies have received worldwide attention, putting these outbreaks at the centre of debate among scientists and health professionals as well as decision-makers in the political and economic arenas. News about these epidemics pours into homes through local and international media.