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SMU Associate Professor Adeline Chong
08 Sep 2015
Singapore Management University
By examining private transactions that connect two or more countries, a study from Singapore aims to shed light on how globalisation has affected the practice of private international law. In particular, it is looking at whether Singapore courts should recognise and enforce a judgement handed down from class litigation in the US.
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07 Sep 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
From East to West, Asian economies are rapidly transforming, creating jobs for a growing population of young workers. But can working conditions keep pace? International Development Research Centre (IDRC)-supported research is building an evidence base that shows creating better job opportunities can go hand in hand with sustaining growth.
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07 Sep 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
A project co-funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) helped to create the Sri Lankan Wildlife Health Centre to monitor animal health. The findings also moved the national government to expand the role of their veterinarians into areas such as antibiotic resistance and farm practices.
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04 Sep 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
An initiative supported by International Development Research Centre supports research in Southeast Asia that aims to improve understanding of the effects of agricultural change on ecosystems and human health, and provide sustainable solutions.
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02 Sep 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
A program supported by IDRC helps high school teachers in India's Karnataka state access, create, curate, and publish open educational resources. Thanks to that, teachers across 34 districts have learned to use digital tools and resources in their classroom teaching.
01 Sep 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is funding a research grant program on agricultural research for development for African graduate students.
SMU Assistant Professor Ijlal Naqvi
31 Aug 2015
Singapore Management University
The electrical power sector in Pakistan provides a lens through which researchers can examine the government’s level of service to its citizens. The research project aims to produce the country's first electricity distribution map.
SMU Assistant Professor Yang Hwajin
24 Aug 2015
Singapore Management University
SMU Assistant Professor Yang Hwajin studies how language shapes our ability to process information.
SMU Assistant Professor Song Jiyoung
24 Aug 2015
Singapore Management University
SMU Assistant Professor Song Jiyoung works on migration management, a multidisciplinary field that helps vulnerable migrants and mobile populations.
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21 Aug 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
A direct relationship exists between stress and globalisation – i.e. transnational corporations and transnational economics – according to a recent study published in the Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities.
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19 Aug 2015
Wildlife Conservation Society
The Chief Minister of the Malaysian state of Sarawak has issued a video statement highlighting his intention to protect orangutans in a biodiverse-rich region in Malaysia.
SMU Assistant Professor Maartje de Visser
17 Aug 2015
Singapore Management University
A country’s constitution protects the rights of its citizens. But who protects the constitution? SMU Assistant Professor Maartje de Visser looks to answer this question.
14 Aug 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Professor Peter Leggat AM from James Cook University, Australia, partners with The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) in the area of geospatial technologies used by public health sector in disaster management.
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12 Aug 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
A community programme initiated by researchers in Malaysia aims to increase livestock in a rural area as well as producing income for goat breeders by equipping them with expert knowledge through training.
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07 Aug 2015
Tohoku University
Researchers in Japan have been looking into how tsunami-type waves can originate from massive storm systems, independent of earthquakes or landslides.
06 Aug 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Canada’s International Development Research Centre has been chosen to host the new Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS), beginning in 2015-2016.
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02 Aug 2015
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Symposium is designed for promising young leaders who are committed to taking a leadership role in making the world a better place. The theme of this year is “Enrich, Educate, Enlighten” with over 800 young leaders from prestigious universities in 57 countries attending.
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31 Jul 2015
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
Some twenty students of the National University of Malaysia (UKM) spent a week at a primary school in Cambodia interacting and teaching pupils of the Cham ethnic minority.
29 Jul 2015
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Researchers in the United Kingdom, Singapore and New Zealand are to trial the use of a combination of nutrients and probiotics before and during pregnancy in a bid to improve the health of mothers and their babies.
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24 Jul 2015
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
Academics should investigate the phenomenon of road accidents rising from year to year despite the many safety campaigns.
22 Jul 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
IDRC is now accepting applications for the IDRC Research Awards 2016
19 Jul 2015
Asia Research News
ResearchSEA members may be interested in this two-day media training workshop aimed at public information and press officers working at Japanese and other Asian universities and research institutions.
16 Jul 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
The IDRC-funded South Asia Research Network (SARNET) is organizing a two-week training program — Labour Economics: Theories, Methodologies and Research Issues — from October 27 to November 7, 2015.
15 Jul 2015
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has held the Scholarship Awards Ceremony.
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14 Jul 2015
Tohoku University
The South African Ambassador to Japan Her Excellency Mohau Pheko's recent lecture at Tohoku University.
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14 Jul 2015
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
The National University of Malaysia (UKM) and the Standard Chartered Foundation will continue working together to improve the level of knowledge and awareness of Autism.
14 Jul 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chairperson of the renowned Bangladeshi development organization BRAC, has won the 2015 World Food Prize.
14 Jul 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Universiti Putra Malaysia Professor Ir Dr Mohd Sapuan Salit has become the first Malaysian engineer to have been elected as Fellow of the United States’ Society of Automotive Engineers International.
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14 Jul 2015
Wildlife Conservation Society
Wildlife Conservation Society and the Royal Government of Cambodia’s Fisheries Administration announced today that 21 captive-raised southern river terrapins have been released back into their native habitat in southwest Cambodia.

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Giants in history

Vietnamese surgeon Tôn Thất Tùng (10 May 1912 – 7 May 1982) developed a pioneering technique that reduced the risks and mortality rate of liver operations.
Michiaki Takahashi (17 February 1928 – 16 December 2013) was a Japanese virologist who developed the first chickenpox vaccine.
Maggie Lim (5 January 1913 – November 1995) was a Singaporean physician who promoted family planning and expanded the access to clinics to improve the quality of life for mothers and children in Singapore’s early days.
The founder of the Adyar Cancer Institute in India, Muthulakshmi Reddy (30 July 1886 – 22 July 1968), fought to uplift women and girls from impoverished situations.
Through her iconic stories featuring fictional scenes from the history of the Philippines, language teacher and academic Genoveva Matute (3 January 1915 – 21 March 2009) helped strengthen the Filipino identity.
Rajeshwari Chatterjee (24 January 1922 – 3 September 2010) was the first female engineer from Karnataka in India.
U Hla Myint (1920 – 2017) was a celebrated economist from Myanmar. Considered a prodigy, he was admitted to Rangoon University to study economics when he was just 14 years old. He went on to earn a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics (LSE).
Ali
Little is known about Ali, a teenager from Sarawak, Malaysia, who was chief assistant to the famous naturalist Alfred Wallace. Most of what is known comes from Wallace’s writings. Ali accompanied Wallace on expeditions throughout the Malay Archipelago from December 1855 to February 1862.
Indian scientist and physician Upendranath Brahmachari (19 December 1873–6 February 1946) is best known for creating a drug called Urea Stibamine, used to safely and reliably treat visceral leishmaniasis (or Kala-azar), a severe infection caused by the Leishmania parasite.
Sir Mokshagundam Srinivasa Shastry Vishveshwarayya (15 September 1860 – 14 April 1962) is widely regarded as India’s most outstanding engineer. In a career that spanned almost his entire life, Vishveshwarayya played a pivotal role in several engineering projects, including designing the Krishnarajasagara dam that is still the source of irrigation and drinking water for parts of Karnataka today.
Tsuneko (7 June 1933) and Reiji Okazaki (8 October 1930 – 1 August 1975) were a Japanese couple who discovered Okazaki fragments – short sequences of DNA that are synthesized during DNA replication and linked together to form a continuous strand.