Seven Hedin's “Through Asia”

Zika virus is set to spread through Asia, WHO says.

Zika virus infection is “highly likely” to continue spreading through Asia, the World Health Organization predicted this week, as evidence grows that babies infected in the womb show a constellation of abnormalities, not just microcephaly. A six month follow-up of 11 babies born to mothers diagnosed with the Zika virus in Brazil, published in JAMA Neurology, found a range of anomalies in additi...

Through a Hazy Crystal Ball : Asia ’ S Economic Outlook

According to Niels Bohr, “It is very difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”! The wisdom of this precept is reinforced when forecasts are made for a region as diverse, dynamic, and volatile as Asia. This diversity is reflected in the enormous differences that prevail in the region’s economic levels and rates of growth in GDP and per capita GDP, in technological sophisticatio...

Managing Linguistic Nationalism through Constitutional Design: Lessons from South Asia

Human Migration through Bottlenecks from Southeast Asia into East Asia during Last Glacial Maximum Revealed by Y Chromosomes

Molecular anthropological studies of the populations in and around East Asia have resulted in the discovery that most of the Y-chromosome lineages of East Asians came from Southeast Asia. However, very few Southeast Asian populations had been investigated, and therefore, little was known about the purported migrations from Southeast Asia into East Asia and their roles in shaping the genetic str...

Music and Emotion: Seven Questions, Seven Answers