Labor in South Asia: Introduction

Introduction: Islamic Law in South-east Asia

There is a profound ignorance in Australia about Islamic law. One of the major aims of the Australian Journal of Asian Law is to inform and to encourage debate. At a time when the distance between Islamic and secular traditions seems wider than at anytime in living memory, this special issue is our attempt to open serious debate among legal scholars about syarî’ah. We believe the initiative is ...

Globalization and Changes in the Labor Markets in South Asia

South Asian labor market has undergone changes brought in by the forces of liberalization. Liberal free trade has changed the structure of industrial priority from import competing to export industries. This has implied fragmentation and relocation of industries in the value added chains. Production has been stretched across the globe and unskilled labor and skilled labor are being thrown to fo...

Surgery in South Asia.

Generic endemism in South-West Asia: an overview

A provisional list of all the endemic vascular plant genera in SW Asia is presented. The area, here defined to include Turkey, the Caucasus, N Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and adjacent parts of Pakistan and Central Asia, has 161 genera restricted to it. By far, the greatest numbers of the endemic genera are in Apiaceae, Brassicaceae and Asteraceae; many are morphologically isolated and occur at rand...

Multiple Sclerosis Epidemiology in East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia: A Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic immune-mediated diseases of the human central nervous system and an important cause of non-traumatic neurologic disability among young population in several countries. Recent reports from East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia have proposed a low to moderate prevalence of MS in these countries. METHODS A literature review...