Measles outbreaks in 1999 in Queensland and Victoria, Australia, were caused by a novel strain of clade G virus (proposed name g3). Epidemiologic and molecular evidence supports independent circulation of this virus in Queensland, northern Australia, in addition to importation of the virus by East Timor refugees seeking safe haven in Australia.

1Laboratory of Clinical Biology and Pharmacogenomics and Center for Clinical Research and Genomics, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea 2Acupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea 3Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology, School of Life Science, Institute of...

1 Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation Laboratory, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2 Centre on Behavioral Health, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 3 Center for Integrative Medicine, The University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA 4Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospi...

This concluding article aims to pull together the analysis undertaken in the preceding articles in this special issue. By sketching an overview of the university reforms and developments revealed in the sectoral articles, it draws out the trends of university restructuring in East Asia. It then projects the significances of these trends in terms of cautions to be raised. Finally, the article pr...

In June 1984, I was part of a group of western-trained medical doctors from six countries who began a 15-month course in Ayurveda. In February 1985 as part of our course, we were invited to join a group of Vaidyas in Brasilia, Brazil, for a two-week conference on the indigenous health traditions of South America. It was here that I first came into contact with Balaraj Maharishi, one of the grea...

There are an estimated 20,000 East Timorese people living in Australia. The majority came to Australia as refugees mainly between 1975 and 1995 fleeing first a civil war, then the violent Indonesian regime which invaded upon Portugal’s withdrawal from the tiny territory after 400 years of colonisation. Over the years, many members of the East Timorese refugee diaspora in Australia were active i...