World billionaires Bill Gates and his wife Melinda arrived Cambodia
World billionaires Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have appeared in a short time in Pailin province on Saturday that the two generated funds for various projects that combat drug-resistant malaria .
Memoria Palace resort staff said the two individuals met staff from various projects funded by the Gates Foundation as well as the Minister of Health in the hotel before traveling to Siem Reap .
Mr. Gates , founder of Microsoft and its worth $ 77.4 billion . According to Forbes magazine 's Foundation started in 1994 , since then , he donated more than $ 28 billion to the project Others , in order to promote health and reduce poverty .
According to the World Health Organization said that the type of malaria resistant to artemisinin have the highest prevalence rates along the border between Cambodia and Thailand especially in Pailin and Battambang .
Gates Foundation is a major donor of the World Foundation , which has distributed net to more than 4 million nets across the country .
Gates Foundation could not be reached for comment about the presence millionaire Pailin yesterday.
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