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20 May 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Researchers studying how gender roles contribute to different types of violence in Pakistani cities aim to identify solutions and share them widely.
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20 May 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Research teams are examining Bangladesh’s rural-tourban transformation in order to help the country move beyond low-skill jobs toward a high-skill economy.
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20 May 2015
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Researchers have published the first systematic data on infanticide and illegal infant abandonment in Malaysia, which could ultimately aid in the development of preventive measures.
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20 May 2015
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
A Malaysian indigenous group has revived its alphabet from the brink of extinction, thanks to specially designed computer fonts.
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20 May 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Researchers are harnessing mobile phone technology to provide ethnic minority women in Vietnam with crucial information about pregnancy, birth and infant care.
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20 May 2015
University of the Philippines Diliman
Researchers in the Philippines are using green engineering to develop a low-cost dam that aims to prevent flooding, generate electricity, and help end food and water shortages.
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20 May 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
A research network is exploring how open data can help address specific challenges and bring about positive change in developing countries.
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15 May 2015
Asia Research News
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) hosts global ICT conference highlighting innovations that advance open, smart and inclusive socioeconomic development
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15 May 2015
Asia Research News
Research has found that the Malays were the first farmers who cultivated rice and domesticated livestock in today's Java Sea, Malacca and Sunda straits, and the islands between them.
13 May 2015
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) held the Second Inauguration of Endowed Professorships at the Jockey Club Auditorium
13 May 2015
Asia Research News
A key priority of the program is to develop evidence, innovations and policies for improved health, healthier food systems, and the prevention of food-related non-communicable diseases.
13 May 2015
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Researchers from the Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi MARA, have devised a prototype assessing tool to gauge a candidate's critical thinking skills which appears to be a much sought after criteria among employers.
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12 May 2015
Asia Research News
“After the first earthquake, many seismologists said that insufficient energy had been released from that part of the Himalayas and that a further earthquake was possible. Very sadly that's exactly what's happened."
12 May 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) has become the first global university to offer MA in Education in Sri Lanka.
12 May 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
A team of students from The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) emerged as champion at the AIESEC Social Startup Challenge 2015.
12 May 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) has won the 2015 United Nations Population Award.
12 May 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
The Aga Khan Foundation Canada launched "Together: An Exhibition on Global Development" on April 22, 2015 in Ottawa, featuring the work of 21 Canadian organizations, including IDRC, that are helping to improve the quality of life in the developing world.
11 May 2015
Asia Research News
Strengthening Information Society Research Capacity Alliance (SIRCA) III - 2015-2017 Deadline for Proposals June 19, 2015 Expression of Interest due May 27, 2015
09 May 2015
Asia Research News
There is still time to register for the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2015) hosted at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, May 15 – 18 2015.
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28 Apr 2015
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Ottawa, Canada, April 27, 2015 – Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) today announced CA$17 million in new funding for projects that will make food more secure and nutritious in developing countries.
Nepal Earthquake
27 Apr 2015
Asia Research News
Early on Saturday, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck an area of central Nepal between Kathmandu and the Pokhara, killing more than 3,000 people. The tremor also unleashed avalanches on Mount Everest. A powerful aftershock was felt on Sunday in Nepal, India and Bangladesh, and more avalanches were reported near Everest.
15 Apr 2015
Waseda University
An opinion article by Masaoki Ishikawa, Director of Waseda Institute of the Policy of Social Safety and Professor at the Faculty of Law of Waseda University (Criminal Policy, Juvenile Law).
07 Apr 2015
Asia Research News
Revival of traditional rainwater harvesting has transformed the driest state in India, and could be used to combat the effects of climate change across the world.
03 Apr 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus hosted an international forum on special education needs to bring together interested academics and practitioners in the field of special and inclusive education.
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02 Apr 2015
Waseda University
An opinion article by Professor Koichiro Oka of Waseda University, Japan
30 Mar 2015
IOP Publishing
Researchers have, for the first time, mapped the rapid urban expansion that has occurred across the whole of East-Southeast Asia in the last decade.
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19 Mar 2015
Waseda University
Researchers in Japan have jointly developed a robot with four arms and four crawlers which can perform multiple tasks simultaneously to help clean up the rubble left after the 2011 quake-tsunami disasters in Minamisoma, Fukushima.
16 Mar 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Academics from The University of Nottingham, Dr Ting Kang Nee, and Dr Yvonne Mbaki, will be trekking and climbing to the peak of Naya Kanga mountain (5846m) in Kathmandu, Nepal this from 13-19 April, to raise funds to support pre-school education for children from the Penan community in Sarawak.
16 Mar 2015
Waseda University
An opinion article by Professor Masayasu Kitagawa of Waseda University, Japan
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12 Mar 2015
Asia Research News
Dental students at The National University of Malaysia (UKM) may soon be learning how to design and sculpt false teeth with dental wax using computer software of interactive instructional manual that renders animated three-dimensional images.

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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.