Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for World’s Pivotal RegionRory Medcalf. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. £20.00. 310 pp.China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New NationalismRana Mitter. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard £22.95/$27.95. 316 pp.Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age Competitive InterdependenceRyan Hass. Haven, CT...

Welcome to the 2010 Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, the premier technical meeting for the Software Engineering community in the Asia Pacific region since its inception in 1994. In addition to the many attendees from the Asia Pacific region we have a very substantial number of international participants, facilitating both local networking and connection to the broader international...

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 66 per cent of all people living with HIV/AIDS and the Asia-Pacific region 19 per cent. Although the infection rate in the Asia-Pacific region is relatively low, there are warning signs of an escalating crisis. New infections in the Asia-Pacific region totalled 1.2 million in 2004 and 8.2 million to date. Asia is now home to some of the fastest growing HIV epidem...

In the last issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), editor-in-chief, Dr. Reza Afshari focused on an important contemporary issue of empowering toxicology in the Asia pacific region (1). The topic drew our attention and we would like to share the situation of Bangladesh in light of this editorial. Dr. Afshari correctly emphasized on forming national societies of medical toxi...

http://jpis.org This August I had the opportunity to discuss scientific publication policy with my colleagues in the Asia Pacific region and World Health Organization (WHO) at the annual convention of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) held in Bangkok, Thailand. APAME is an Asia Pacific-centered nongovernmental, nonpartisan and nonprofit organization under a mission...

Correspondence: Ting-Peng Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Research in information systems (IS) in the Asia Pacific has experienced fast progress in the past 10 years. A major driving force is the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. In this paper, we provide an overview of the IS...

Malaria in the Asia-Pacific region has been targeted for elimination by the year 2030. This article asks the question, "by what means?" in the context of proven technical strategies and tools against key challenges imposed by the distinct character of the Asia-Pacific malaria problem. The misperception of malaria in the Asia-Pacific region as a less serious but otherwise essentially similar pro...

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...

The Asia-Pacific region is undergoing a major change in both food and health patterns, with a connection between the two more than likely. Evidence for certain traditional Asia-Pacific foods as protective agents against chronic non-communicable disease and cardiovascular disease (CVD), in particular, is growing at a time when their usage diminishes. The nature of the evidence to establish relev...

This study examines one dimension of the evolution of the information systems (IS) field through a scientometric study of three major global, regional and national conferences: ICIS, PACIS and ASAC. The findings suggest that IS has matured and diversified over the years, since the number of publications and the average number of collaborators per publication have been growing. Using well-establ...