The end of the cold war created a strategic vacuum in the South China Sea. The collapse of the Soviet Union and its departure from Cam Ranh Bay; the closure of the United States' naval bases in the Philippines; and Vietnam's withdrawal from Cambodia diminished superpower influence in the region. These events also prompted several East Asian littoral governments to recalculate the strategic and ...

HDSS Profile: The South East Asia Community Observatory Health and Demographic Surveillance System (SEACO HDSS) Uttara Partap, Elizabeth H Young, Pascale Allotey, Ireneous N Soyiri, Nowrozy Jahan, Kridaraan Komahan, Nirmala Devarajan, Manjinder S Sandhu and Daniel D Reidpath* Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK, Jeffrey Ch...

Many Japanese inhabit tropical countries, and some of them are suffering from infectious diseases. In order to know the relationship between the prevalence of these diseases and the degree of faecal pollution of the drinking water, we have examined the drinking water in these countries of the world, and at the same time we have studied the infection rate of intestinal helminths of the Japanese ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, otherwise known as Avian Flu, emerged in Hong Kong in 1996-97, and by June 2007 had resulted in outbreaks in poultry or wild birds in nearly sixty countries and 317 human cases, including 191 deaths. South-East and East Asia were the earliest affected regions. Between the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004, Avian Flu infections of poultry were suddenly...

Introduction This paper describes the ongoing project Gender Awareness in ICT with Focus on Education. The first section of the paper presents the background to this study while the second section describes the pilot study carried out in April 2008 and outlines the preliminary findings. The main study will be carried out in Autumn 2008. This study is part of a larger project in the south-east o...

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...

 The estimated number of people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific is just under 5 million (4.883 million in 2011)  160,000 of these people are children younger than 15 years.  Approximately 300,000 people died from AIDS-related causes in 2009. This figure has remained stable in recent years.  HIV epidemics in Asia and the Pacific remain largely concentrated among people who inject dru...

This paper suggests that the literature on multi-level governance, dominated by Western European and U.S. writers and research settings, suffers from methodological and epistemological limitations. The concept, when refracted through the lens of lived political experiences in South East Europe, appears in serious need of revision and refinement. The paper goes on to argue that both notions of p...

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus is an ongoing public health and socio-economic challenge, particularly in South East Asia. H5N1 is now endemic in poultry in many countries, and represents a major pandemic threat. Here, we describe the evolution of H5N1 virus in South East Asia, the reassortment events leading to high genetic diversity in the region, and factors responsible f...

The National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia, in association with Malaysian Paediatric Association and Commonwealth Association for Mental Handicap and Developmental Disabilities (CAMHADD) held a workshop in Kuala Lumpur in September 1986 on prevention, early detection, and intervention of childhood handicap. The main objective was to identify those problems for which practica...