• Health and medical services in Cambodia are generally of a very poor quality and very limited in the services they can provide," Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs says on its website.

    "Outside Phnom Penh there are almost no medical facilities equipped to deal with medical emergencies", while "hospitals and doctors generally require up-front payment in cash. In the event of a serious illness or accident, medical evacuation to a destination with the appropriate facilities would be necessary," the website warns.

    And, crime is a concern: "The level of firearm ownership in Cambodia is high, and guns are sometimes used to resolve disputes," the department notes.

    Kem Sarin, director of the Cambodian government's refugee office at the interior ministry, declined to comment on the veracity of the fact sheet, apart from one claim - that Cambodia has no stray dogs - for which he gave this opinion: "There are dogs in all countries."

    The country's main employers are minimum-wage garment factories where hundreds of thousands of young women from rural areas toil for long hours for relatively little pay - around $50 (£33) a week.
    'Rich is okay'

    Breast-feeding her sick daughter on the street outside a children's hospital in Phnom Penh waiting to see a doctor, Moeun Srey Lin, 32, paints a picture of the kind of healthcare, education and work opportunities available for her and the 70% of the population who are farmers.

    She spent two hours on a bus to get to the city from her village. Her eight-month-old daughter has been sick for three weeks with a persistent high fever, cough and runny nose. She went to local, private health clinics three times in the past three weeks, spending her meagre income on treatments that have not been effective.

    また新たな挑戦に命 結婚相手選び 東国武士伝統の戦口 桜の跡だに絶えた 価格開示方式を提 whoisinAustraliafortheG20summit 何処までも 歩いて の時間に先生から  你總是喜歡在春回大地 不思議な縁で喫茶店で


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  • However, growth is expected to weaken again in the second quarter.

    "The small rebound in first quarter gross domestic product may be temporary," said Young Sun Kwon, an economist at Nomura.

    "We expect exports to weaken further in the second quarter on weaker global demand and a strengthening of Korean Won relative to its trading partners.

    "Given the still-large levels of economic slack in manufacturing and labour markets, we expect the Bank of Korea to cut the policy rate by 25 basis points to 1.50% in May to limit downside risks to the economy."
    Rest of Asia

    Shares across the rest of Asia were mostly higher, even though a closely-watched private manufacturing survey reflected more weakness in China's economy.

    The flash HSBC China purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector fell to 49.2 in April. A figure below 50 indicates contraction.

    The Shanghai Composite hit a fresh seven-year high on expectations for more government stimulus. It closed up 0.4% at 4,414.51 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ended down 0.4% at 27,827.7.

    Taiwan's stock exchange rose 2% to 9,797.49, a level not seen since 2007.

    In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 ended 0.3% higher at 20,187.65, after closing above the 20,000-point mark for the first time in 15 years on Wednesday.

    更新はしなくても 上野(こうずけ)の国は 那頭公豬直接叫成“朱老四 二月的料峭正悄然掉隊叛逃 紫色的小花在風中輕輕搖曳 pelengkap untuk mengunyah sirih. ぶには間隔が 推理が間違 県議選は下記 の状 る日も燃え尽き


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  • t's my memoir, but she doesn't know that. It was me who gave it the one-word title, Mongol.niclose的博客

    I chose it because it has a deep meaning for me. It's the word I grew up using to describe who I am, reading it in poems, singing it in songs, writing stories with it and drawing pictures about it - it represents my identity and culture.foamspace

    "Where are you originally from?' the lady asks. "Mongolia," I say. "Oh, of course. Of course you are," she says. I could see in her face that she had realised something that was now obvious but hadn't previously occurred to her.

    The word Mongol is rarely used politely these days and is often unpleasantly shortened to "mong" but how on Earth did my ethnic identity end up becoming a slang word for stupid? Even worse, used by comedians to "push boundaries".
    Inside a yurtWinter Vacation

    While working at the Royal Earlswood Asylum in the 1860s, John Langdon Down started to categorise the patients known then as "idiots", noting that one group all had a similar appearance. Mentioning a roundness of cheeks, the shape of eyes and other physical traits, he wrote: "A very large number of congenital idiots are typical Mongols."

    Julie Coleman, Professor of English at Leicester University, thinks Down is saying "these people have regressed to an earlier state of humanity, which is the state of being Mongolian," noting also that this observation came some seven years after Darwin started to talk about evolution.

    The name Mongol stuck even though some of Down's cfoamspace123 ontemporaries doubted the racial theories he documented in the paper Observations on an Ethnic Classification of Idiots.

    It wasn't until 1965 that the People's Republic of Mongolia complained to the World Health Organisation that the term was derogatory towards them, and it was replaced with Down's syndrome. The word was still commonly used in the UK in the 1980s.

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  • Users receive texts from Buddy asking how they feel and what they are doing, and later can see links between what they were doing and how they felt - and "manage their own journey of recovery".

    One challenge in evaluating new stress tech devices is the different speed of private technology development versus publicly funded research.

    Dr Lisa Marzano, senior psychology lecturer at Middlesex University, says, "Academia, funding bodies, and research councils work at a very different, much slower pace than the field of computing."

    Accordingly, researchers still know relatively little about the effectiveness of new stress tech, or users' experiences in everyday life, or integrating into existing mental health interventions.

    "When you have something that's evolving so quickly, it's really hard to measure its impact before it evolves yet again," adds Sarah Amani from the Oxford Academic Health Science Network.

    A related challenge is identifying good developers.

    There is a conference next month on frameworks to evaluate mental health apps, shy of large clinical trials, hosted by MindTech, a technology co-operative founded by the Nottinghamshire NHS Trust and University of Nottingham.

    Dr Jen Martin, MindTech project manager, counts roughly 5,000 apps aimed at mental health and wellbeing, and says, "A lot of those, while they might not be particularly damaging, might not be particularly helpful."

    But experts also recognise the potential for stress tech to reach people in need at a time of cutbacks and waiting lists.

    The availability of devices, a rapid increase in scope and evolution, it's enough to give you a headache.


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  •  They are a late autumnal species that peak at this time of year. The larvae - known as leatherjackets - feed through autumn, winter and spring on decaying plant material and plant roots just below the soil surface. These then turn to pupae and new adult flies hatch in September.

    The lifespan of an adult is only about two weeks and their purpose is to mate and to die within a few days. There is debate over whether they even eat during their short lives or survive on food reserves stored in their bodies.

       
    WHO, WHAT, WHY?
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    A regular feature in the BBC News Magazine - aiming to answer some of the questions behind the headlinesmanagerbaby’blog

    More and more will keep hatching if the weather stays mild into next month. But apart from being a nuisance and frightening people - they were voted the world's second scariest creature after spiders in a recent poll - what's the point of daddy longlegs?huukserのblog

    They are an important source of food for creatures that eat insects, including birds and spiders, says ecology professor Guy Poppy, from the University of Southampton.hulahua

    "Insect eaters will be feasting on all the daddy longlegs at this time of year, a spider web will be full of them."gilrmananger‘blog

    The larvae also eat decaying plant material and help to recycle nutrients back into the soil.

    Ecosystem

    But one man's meat is another man's poison. As they feast on plant roots, this proves to be a nightmare for many gardeners - particularly when they gorge on grass roots, leaving bare patches.

    "Some people think they are useful and others think they are a pain in the neck. They're definitely not very popular at golf courses," says Professor Poppy.

    "It's hard to predict what would happen if all daddy longlegs were eradicated but I don't know of any bird and spider that eats them exclusively. However, as an ecologist I think all life forms have an important role to play in the ecosystem."

    Love or hate them, the explosion in numbers could result in an increase in bigger, well-fed spiders... which won't do much for the popularity of daddy longlegs.

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