The article reports on the scarcity of financial deals in Southeast Asia in 2015 on the back of slowing economies which led to the scrapping of several initial public offerings (IPO), scarce mergers and acquisitions and a plunge in local currencies, discouraging investors from buying local stock ...
One salient (and delicious) example is cuisine. Curry is a staple in the region – think Thailand’s gang keo warn, Cambodia’s fish amok and Malaysia’s Penang curry. Curry, however, is not endemic to Southeast Asia. The word itself comes from the Tamil kari and its export east is ev...
Southeast Asia has become an important destination for FDI in the global economy. Indonesia and Vietnam are among the largest economies in the region. They constitute middle-income countries whose economic progress has advanced, to a great extent, hand in hand with FDI inflows. According to fDi ...
A change to an evidence-based approach is taking place in several countries in Asia. Abstract Over the last three decades in response to a rise in substance use in the region, many countries in East and Southeast Asia responded by establishing laws and policies that allowed for compulsory deten...
What’s more, those Delta residents that have some technical training and/or higher education do not stay in the Delta for long. As the region’s economy falls farther behind the rest of Vietnam, more and more Delta residents are moving to urban centers to look for work. One of the mai...
Among the 242 species of bird recorded from the project and surrounding areas one of the most outstanding was an Indian Skimmer that arrived to delight bird watchers and photographers in April 2004. Another scarce visitor was an Indian Pond Heron that showed up on the freshwater ponds in 2006....
“The opportunity for growth is quite significant,” he said. “If we look at the US, Northern Virginia alone has around 3GW, which is one-third of the cumulative capacity across Asia Pacific, while the entire US market has almost 10GW in operational capacity. Considering that Asia Pacific...
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Given this situation, it would be interesting to carry out a public health study on the Region of Murcia or at the national level to allow the early diagnosis of heterozygous subjects carrying one of the most prevalent mutations to avoid the most harmful effects of the disease. In addition, ...
Southeast Asia has the weakest normative frameworks for refugee protection of any region in the world apart from the Middle East. Only two out of ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have signed the 1951 International Refugee Convention. Nevertheless, the 2012 AS...