In Prey Veng, five 16-year-old volunteers have taught about 1,300 primary schoolchildren about healthy food and persuaded snack vendors to drop banned products, through a UNICEF-backed youth program that has reached 50,000 students.
Cambodia has set aside 315 hectares of marsh in the Cardamom Mountains as its first genetic conservation area for an animal species. The site holds more than 40 wild Siamese crocodiles, the largest known wild group.
An ADB-backed project built landfills, wastewater plants, drains and latrines in two Cambodian towns on the Tonle Sap, improving services for more than 114,000 residents of Southeast Asia's largest lake basin.
