CPP calls for action over speech

The Cambodian People’s Party has demanded authorities take action against two more CNRP figures, including a lawmaker, over a speech in France that referred to the ruling party regime as a “beast” and “puppets of Vietnam”. Sending yet another chill down the spines of government opponents and critics, the letter by the CPP singled out French-based activist Ly Poeung and lawmaker for Prey Veng province Tout Khoeut.

The Latest: Le Pen: Twin – totalitarianisms’ threaten France

In this file photo dated Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, Far-right leader and candidate for next spring presidential elections Marine le Pen from France celebrates after her speech at a meeting of European Nationalists in Koblenz, Germany. Le Pen is scheduled to give a speech to supporters at the congress center in Lyon, France, on Sunday Feb. 5, 2017, the second day of a conference by her anti-immigration National Front party.

Platform of French far-right candidate “made in France”

Far-right leader and candidate for next spring presidential elections Marine le Pen, center left, shakes hands as she visits the Entrepreneur Fair, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 in Paris, France. Far-right leader and candidate for next spring presidential elections Marine le Pen, center left, shakes hands as she visits the Entrepreneur Fair, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 in Paris, France.

Diabetes or its rapid deterioration can be an early warning sign for pancreatic cancer

Patients and their doctors should be aware that the onset of diabetes, or a rapid deterioration in existing diabetes that requires more aggressive treatment, could be a sign of early, hidden pancreatic cancer, according to research presented at the European Cancer Congress 2017 today . Ms Alice Koechlin, from the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France, told the meeting that an analysis linking nearly a million patients with type 2 diabetes in Lombardy and Belgium with recorded cases of pancreatic cancer showed that 50% of all pancreatic cancers cases in the two regions were diagnosed within one year of patients being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and being given their first prescription to control it.