Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize: a profile (click for details on Telegraph, UK) China’s great migration - China’s Henan province has a population of about 100 million -- larger than that of most countries. In China’s administrative system, a province is at the highest level of subna...
Islamic holiday dates will therefore shift from year to year when using the Western or Gregorian calendar (365/366 days). Furthermore, as the start date of each Islamic month depends on local sightings of the moon, the dates of most public holidays can only be estimated. View the latest UA...
most of which were located in Central China. To ensure that each strain originated from distinct pigs, we exclusively isolated and preserved one representative ExPEC strain from each pig farm at a given time. In this study, we randomly selected 50-90 isolates for each year from 2011 to ...
Each year during the Spring Festival, there is a large-scale national population movement in China as people return to their hometowns for New Year celebrations and family reunions. Travel during the Spring Festival is called ‘Chunyun’, which is an annual exam of the Chinese transportation sys...
Given the progression of population aging in China, does the diminishing demographic dividend boost the promotion of investment abroad in the form of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI)? This empirical study focused on the influence of population aging on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI)...
Russia remains Europe’s largest country by population. Although the country’s landmass extends all the way across Asia, three-quarters of Russia’s people live on the European side of the country. Germany is the second largest country in Europe, followed by the UK, France, and Italy. ...
The age and sex adjusted incidence of MG was 0.68 per 100,000 person-years in China. The admission mortality rate was 14.69‰. Most cases of new onset MG occurred in the seventh decade of life. Funding National Science Foundation of China (91642205, and 81830038); Advanced Innovation Center...
primary results of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Precision Medicine Initiative (CASPMI) project launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including the de novo assembly of a northern Han reference genome (NH1.0) and whole genome analyses of 597 healthy people coming from most areas in China...
A history of migration Australia is often referred to as an ‘immigrant nation’, alongside the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Before the Second World War, migrants to Australia were almost exclusively from the UK, however after 1945, Australia’s immigration policy was broadened to att...
Surgical and non-surgical aesthetic treatments are very popular throughout Asia and in particular in China. With the globalisation and immigration of Chinese people to other countries where many seek treatment from Western-trained doctors, it is important to understand the ideals of beauty amongst Chi...