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The Met's Costume Institute Multicultural Scramble

China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries, as Misha Pinkhasov highlights in his article on the Met's exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass. Read more...
Australia's healthcare system needs IT solutions

Australia's healthcare system needs IT solutions

Performance driven IT solutions are critical to reduce fragmentation in Australia’s healthcare system, says Frost & Sullivan. Read more...
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Key technology trends for Australia’s healthcare in 2015

Key technology trends for Australia’s healthcare in 2015 are digitalisation, decentralisation and democratisation, says Frost & Sullivan. Read more...
Citations are not enough

Citations are not enough

Citations are not enough: Academic promotion panels must take into account a scholar’s presence in popular media, argue Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr. Read more...
'Gaming Is Booming in Australia and Asia'

Australia’s healthcare has good vital signs

Australia’s healthcare has good vital signs, but sustainability, costs and sources of funding are critical areas, says Frost & Sullivan. Read more...
China should welcome Catholic Church and other faith traditions, for the moral good of society

China should welcome Catholic Church and other faith traditions, for the moral good of society

G. Bin Zhao calls on Beijing to accept the pope's offer of friendship and open China's doors to the Catholic Church, as well as revive its own faith traditions, to stem society's moral degeneration. Read more...
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Education Asia -- myths and realities

Asian countries have long topped the OECD's PISA survey on the state of global education. But how good really are Asia's education systems, asks John West? Read more...
Oral Health Education in India

No Indian university in global top 200. Why?

Why is no Indian university in the global top 200 asks Asit Biswas. Read more...
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Urbanization in India

In terms of global developments, Asian countries, including India, have been comparatively newcomers to urbanization, argues Asit Biswas. Read more...
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India's squalid slums

As Katherine Boo describes so vividly in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers", life in an urban slum in Mumbai can be full of squalor and deprivations. Read more...
Dalai lama's second day with IM. Stockholm, Sweden, 15 April 2011 (Photo: Erik Törner/IM)

Asia's fragile societies

Many of Asia's rapidly emerging economies appear threatened by stresses in their societies. It is critical to foster better social cohesion to support economic development. Read more...
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Happiness and well-being in Asia?

Asia confirms the old adage that money doesn't necessarily buy happiness. The region's richest countries are not the happiest. Read more...
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Asia's indigenous peoples

Ambitions of the international community to eliminate global poverty by the year 2030 will be challenged by the large numbers of indigenous people, especially in Asia, who live in deep poverty. Read more...
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Financial crisis now hitting OECD education systems

OECD’s Education at a Glance report shows how crisis effects spread into our education systems, argues the OECD trade union movement. Read more...
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Asia's precariat

The overwhelming majority of Asian working men and women have "precarious" jobs -- short-term, without a formal contract, no job security or social security. Read more...
Human rights in Asia

Human rights in Asia

How can Asia achieve more effective protection of human rights, asks Anthony De Bondt, a summer student at Tokyo's Sophia University in 2014. Read more...
Addressing inequality in Singapore

Addressing inequality in Singapore

Mukul Asher shares his thoughts on inequality in Singapore and its implications for India. Read more...
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Rise of Asia's super rich

As rapid economic growth is lifting more and more Asians out of poverty, a super-rich elite is also blossoming. Read more...
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Asianising Australia

When Jason Day won his first World Golf Championship in the US this year, and Nick Kyrgios beat Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, it heralded a new phase in Australia’s immersion in the Asian Century. Read more...
Farmer with his mobile phone in Bihar, India

Plight of China's Uighurs

The sentencing of Chinese Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti to life imprisonment is a harsh reminder that China is still an empire that employs repression and violence to control peoples within its borders. Read more...
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