Asia is the largest continent in the world which covers about 60% of world population with estimated number of new cases of childhood cancer about 120 000 per year. Due to variation in economy and health care systems, the treatment outcome of childhood cancer in Asian countries varies greatly. Multicenter collaboration is the direction for improvement of treatment outcome in childhood cancer an...

In contrast to developments in other world regions, efforts to institutionalize regional economic cooperation in East Asia have been weak. Though Southeast Asian economies have taken action toward trade liberalization (ASEAN Free Trade Area), the major economies of the region such as China, Japan and Korea have not been part of any formal trade groupings until recently. Ongoing economic coopera...

â  â â â â â  â  â  abstract: â  there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy or the share of the largest city in an urban system. in accordance to urban economic theories, there is an inverse-u shape relationship between urban concentration –urban primacy- and economic growth. that is, as economy grows, urban concen...