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The month of May marks the start of the rainy season in Thailand, bringing much-needed relief from the intense heat from the previous. However, the extreme weather has already made a negative impact on Thai people, including children.

Unicef report finds children in Thailand at 'high risk' from climate change Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

In 2020, 559 million children were affected by four to five heatwaves a year, by 2050, the number can increase fourfold

Some 2.2 million children in Cambodia, or 37.1% of the kingdom's total child population, currently exposed to high heatwave frequency, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said in a press statement on Wednesday.

Following the release of a new in-house report, UNICEF has called on governments to protect children from the effects of climate change.