Asian Energy Challenges in the Asian Century

tWeNtieth-CeNtury CeNtraL asiaN history

Recently opened archives in Central Asia have allowed historians to debunk several myths about the Soviet constitution in that region. Archival research has revealed that indigenous elites were associated with the process of territorial division in the 1920s and 1930s and many of their conflicts were echoed in the central ruling bodies in Moscow. Similarly, field research has undermined the ide...

How Far Behind Are the South Asian Countries in Relation to East Asian

We define as South Asian countries those countries that start with Iran and end with Bangladesh in Asia. Wethen use export statistics in terms of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for 14 industrial sectors tomeasure distances of export capabilities for these countries in relation to the “Western” developed and EastAsian countries. Statistical methods such as multidimensional scaling and ...

High-technology and Energy in Asian Environment

An example of the industrial product from the high-technology is the carbon nanotube (CNT), which are used for semiconductor , vehicle bodies and daily living wares. Thailand, Laos and Cambodia in Asia have involved in producing CNT-made daily wares (e.g. golf ball and golf club). When the Asian Conference of Occupational Health (ACOH Conference) was held in 2012, a review of the nano-toxicolog...

Advancing 21st Century Competencies in East Asian Education Systems

Asian economic integration and cooperation: Challenges and ways forward for pan-Asian regionalism

As the Asian economies have grown larger and become more complex, they have also become more integrated at both the regional and the subregional level. Yet although economic integration has increased, regionalism in the sense of economic cooperation at both the panAsian and subregional levels has lagged behind. Regionalism or economic cooperation in terms of bilateral or multilateral FTAs is a ...