BACKGROUND Illicit drug use among university students has been recognized as a global public health issue in recent years. It may lead to poor academic performance that in turn leads to poor productivity in their later life. This study explores prevalence of and factors associated with illicit drug use among university students in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). METHODS Th...

Sustainable development goals not only contributes towards a clean environment but also better climatic conditions. Within Asia next to China and India, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are actively developing countries in terms economy technologies. On verge achieving development, ASEAN highly depend on fossil fuels for their energy needs. The have taken visionary steps incre...

This study investigates the relationship between closing–opening prices of stocks in US, UK, and European markets five Association Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-5) markets, a group consisting founding members, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand. In particular, this examines impact stock market movements on ASEAN-5 before during COVID-19 pandemic. An autoregressive di...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) faces tremendous challenges regarding the future energy landscape and how transition will embrace a new architecture—including sound policies technologies to ensure access together with affordability, security, sustainability. Given high share fossil fuels in ASEAN’s current mix (oil, coal, natural gas comprise almost 80%), clean use through de...

Despite the divergence in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries’ initial responses to AUKUS, 1 year after pronouncement tripartite security pact, ASEAN as a collective entity has already cautiously accepted AUKUS new reality. Regional states’ have been shaped by their concerns about challenges centrality, possible negative impacts on regional stability, and strategic approach...

This study assesses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and energy consumption transport sector on CO 2 emissions in five ASEAN (Association Southeast Asian Nations) countries for period 1980–2019. The employs environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), uses a nonlinear autoregressive distributive lag model (NARDL) to analyze data. results suggest that carbon their determinants have long-run e...

Purpose This paper tests the accuracies of models that predict Value-at-Risk (VaR) for Market Integrated Latin America (MILA) and Association Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) emerging stock markets during crisis periods. Design/methodology/approach Many VaR estimation have been presented in literature. In this paper, is estimated using Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity, E...

This paper argues that the collective action in Asia by its regional organizations has historically suffered from a “capability–legitimacy gap”: a disjuncture between the capability (in terms of material resources) of major Asian powers to lead regional cooperation on the one hand and their political legitimacy and will as regional leaders on the other. Successful collective action requires lea...

Availability, accessibility and food affordability does not necessarily guarantee its nutritional quality. A core component of food security includes nutrient utilization which reflects the need for dietary quality for an active and healthy lifestyle. Traditional diets particularly in urban areas are being replaced by diets higher in fats, salts and animal products and often with lower intakes ...