PHNOM PENH (AFP) ??” Cambodia has a battle ahead to bring its child mortality rates which are the highest in Asia.

PHNOM PENH (AFP) ??” Cambodia has a battle ahead to bring its child mortality rates which are the highest in Asia, if it were not that the tools needed to stop deaths are available, the UN's children agency said.

"Cambodia has a in extent way to go," deputy executive director of UNICEF in the kingdom Kul C Gautam told reporters at the conclusion of two-day high flat consultations among Cambodian government officials and international donors.

Officials renewed a surety to reduce the current rate of 90 deaths through 1,000 live births to 50 and under-five mortality from 124 to 65 by 1,000 by 2015, Gautam said.

The director said that working to make less the number of deaths from the now passing 63,000 who die each year was individual way of honouring the millions of Cambodians killed during the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-79

Cambodia's economy was shattered and its