BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR - Prumsodun Ok

"How Cambodia’s 1st all-male, gay dance company is preserving tradition" PBS NewsHour 9/5/2019

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SUMMARY:  In 2015, artist Prumsodun Ok formed Cambodia’s first all-male and gay-identified Khmer dance company -- in his living room.  Part of his mission was to support the revival of an art form all but destroyed by the reign of the Khmer Rouge.  Ok told his dancers they would need to be brave in order to give voice to a marginalized community.  He shares his Brief But Spectacular take on honoring tradition.

CAMBODIA - Fighting Malaria

"Fighting malaria in the remote reaches of Cambodia" PBS NewsHour 1/11/2019

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SUMMARY:  Malaria causes nearly half a million deaths worldwide every year.  Ninety percent of them are in sub-Saharan Africa, where poor infrastructure limits delivery of drugs.  But now there is worry that those drugs are losing effectiveness as disease strains become resistant.  Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Cambodia, where scientists are researching and tracking new outbreaks.