Most of Southeast Asia’s coral reefs continue to remain under threat, mainly from anthropogenic impacts. Weak management capacity contributes to the further degradation of reefs, particularly from destructive and over-fishing. The lack of monitoring capacity in some areas adds to the difficulty of reaching more accurate assessments. Amid the general widespread trend of declining health are isol...

ECONOMIC LEADERS FROM AROUND the world gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam for the 14 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in November of 2006. With this year’s theme of “Towards a Dynamic Community for Sustainable Development and Prosperity,” the APEC community strived to make clear its support for the Doha Development Agenda. In addition, the forum emphasized the need to protect human secu...

2004 www.thelancet.com Vol 377 June 11, 2011 According to Antonio Dans, lack of workforce and infra structure is one of the limitations to management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in southeast Asia. We agree that the health-care delivery system was designed mainly to manage acute infectious diseases in resourcelimited southeast Asian countries. However, many of these countries have also e...

To the Editor: Bacteria of the genus Bordetella are gram-negative, rod-shaped organisms that cause respiratory tract diseases in humans and animals. In 1995, Bordetella hinzii was isolated from poultry and 2 patients in the United States and France (1). This pathogen colonizes the respiratory tract of poultry and is closely related to B. avium, which is a commensal species in poultry. However, ...

Foreign direct investment has been of great importance in economic growth and global economic integration over the last decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large variations over time and between countries in the region as regard to the policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI. This chapter aims at examin...

1.Introduction The activities of many criminal groups cross national boundaries and escape the control of governments and law enforcement agencies. As a result, they are as much part of domestic as of international politics. The problem of transnational crime in Southeast Asia is severe and consists primarily of drug trafficking, illegal migration, terrorism, money laundering, transnational pro...

The topic on Zika virus infection and seizure is interesting [1]. Asadi-Pooya gave evidences on some previous reports and also mentioned that the practitioners have to pay attention to any cases with history of visiting risk areas [1]. Indeed, it is no doubt that Zika virus infection can result in neurological disorder and seizure is a possible clinical manifestation. However, seizure is little...

Globally, β-Thalassemia Major (β-TM) is the most commonly inherited hemolytic anemia, with a high incidence rate in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Mediterranean countries. Patients with β-TM require lifelong adherence to their distressing treatment regimens, including regular blood transfusions and daily chelation therapy.

The Southeast Alaska Coastal Monitoring (SECM) project has been sampling juvenile salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and associated environmental parameters in northern Southeast Alaska (SEAK) since 1997 to better understand effects of environmental change on salmon production. A pragmatic application of this effort is to forecast the abundance of adult salmon returns in subsequent years. Since 2004, j...

Out of all the natural disasters, floods are the most common in both developed and developing countries, accounting for approximately 40% of all natural disasters [1,2]. Flooding has severe implications on human health before, during, and after the onset of a flood. Southeast Asia is a region that is especially prone to frequent and severe natural disasters [3]. The Association of Southeast Asi...