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“Chinese Capitalism” began transplanting and rooting into Cambodian economic system since the arrival of Chinese migrants in the Khmer Kingdom in between fifteenth and twentieth century and has been widely acknowledged in Khmer society. Under the context of economic regionalization that led to establish the ASEAN Economic Community, Cambodia is committing to position herself for benefiting from AEC. This commitment is creating further opportunity for the ethnic Chinese known as “Chinese Cambodian”, whose capitalist system and culture were revitalized in early 1990s and blooming nowadays, to rise culturally, economically and politically. That rise will be contributing to increase Chinese influence on the region and the world as well. At least, there are two reasons to claim that: first, the Chinese–Cambodian community have been prominent in business sector for generations and playing a key role in current economic development and second, the relationship between Cambodia and China has been developed very well to be “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation”. As a global economic power, China has been positioning itself as Cambodia’s most important economic partner while Cambodia needs China as backbone for economic and political sphere. Currently, Chinese aids and investments are driving rapid development, particularly in the commercial property, infrastructures and energy sectors, and opening Cambodia as a supplier and trade conduit to the AEC.

Corncob represents a great potential as a raw material for the production of high-value added chemicals, fuels and other industrial products. Thus, corncob is suitable residue for study molecular structure through the pretreatment method. In this study, the effect of calcium-based salts on the hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of corncob were studied at 160, 180, and 200 °C for 2 h. CaSO4 and Ca3(PO4)2 were used as a reaction medium. Hydrochar was characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and ATR-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). Characteristics of the hydrochar varied with calcium-based salt. Cellulose crystallinity in hydrochar decreased dramatically and carbon content in hydrochar obviously increased when Ca3(PO4)2 and CaSO4 were added, respectively. In case of hydrothermal at 180°C with Ca3(PO4)2 and CaSO4, the carbon microsphere was occurred.

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Inflammatory fibroid polyp (IFP) is a rare benign lesion that may occur throughout the digestive tract. IFP is more commonly found in the antrum of the stomach in particular. It mostly affects adults at the average age of 60 years. These polyps are able to cause abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, intestinal obstruction or intussusception. In this paper we report a case of gastric IFP with unusual presenting features. A child with gastric IFP was described and the literature was reviewed. A 4-year-old girl presented with fever for 2 months, arthralgia of knees and ankles, iron deficiency anemia, and hypoalbuminemia. Her stool examination was positive for occult blood. The upper gastrointestinal study demonstrated a large lobulated mass at the upper part of gastric body. Partial gastrectomy en bloc with this 5 cm x 8 cm mass was subsequently performed. Pathological examination was consistent with IFP. Following the mass excision, her fever abruptly declined and disappeared together with anemia and arthralgia. She remained asymptomatic and the abdominal ultrasonography performed at the 24-month follow-up demonstrated no recurrence of the tumor. The etiopathogenesis of IFP still remains unclear. The presence of IFP throughout the gastrointestinal tract and its variable clinical appearances make it difficult to diagnose. The inflammatory symptoms found in this patient support the hypothesis of inflammatory benign lesions of IFP.