The China of Hua Kuo-feng

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen FitzGerald
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
List Type ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Power

Those aspects of today's China I consider basic to a proper understanding of that country now, and which I also believe will persist into the foreseeable future–possibly -to the end of the century–are the following:China is now more "China" than at any time since 1949, but by no means less socialist for that.It is embarked on a path that will probably make it the most significant economic and politico-cultural power in the Asia/Pacific Region by the turn of the century.In its handling of its foreigjn relations China is moving away from some recognizable patterns of the past and developing a character tjiat will make it both easier and tougher to deal with as times goes on.

scholarly journals From Pacific Scoop to Asia Pacific Report: A case study in an independent campus-industry media partnership

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Civic Journalism ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Affairs

Media convergence within the news and current affairs landscape over the past two decades has opened opportunities for competing newspapers, television stations and online publishers to form alliances to approach digital and editorial challenges with innovative strategies. The partnerships have often enabled journalists to embrace multimedia platforms with flexibility and initiative. This has fostered a trend in ‘gatewatching’ and a citizen responsive and involved grassroots media rather than legacy mainstream gatekeeping, top-down models. Such committed media attempts in search of investigative journalism accompanied by ‘public’ and ‘civic’ journalism engagement initiatives have also been emulated by some journalism schools in the Asia-Pacific region. This has paralleled the evolution of journalism as a research methodology with academic application over the past decade. Selecting two New Zealand-based complementary and pioneering Pacific digital news and analysis publications, Pacific Scoop (founded 2009) and Asia-Pacific Report (2016), produced by a journalism school programme in partnership with established independent media as a combined case study, this article will demonstrate how academia-based gatewatching media can effectively challenge mainstream gatekeeping media. Pacific Scoop was established by an Auckland university in partnership with New Zealand’s largest independent publisher, Scoop Media Limited, and launched at the Māori Expo in 2009. The article also explores the transition of Pacific Scoop into Asia-Pacific Report, launched in partnership with an innovative web-based partner, Evening Report. The study analyses the strategic and innovation efforts in the context of continuing disruptions to New Zealand’s legacy media practices related to the Asia-Pacific region.

Intergroup Communication: Asia/Australasia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Liu
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Intergroup Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Immigration ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of

Located in the Asia Pacific region, Asia and Australasia have established a long and close relationship over the past centuries. Asian immigrants play a key role in the development and maintenance of this relationship between the two continents. As Australia not only occupies 86% of the Australasia region but also has a long history of receiving Asian immigrants, dating back to the 18th century, research on intergroup communication between Asian immigrants and host nationals tends to be concentrated in Australia. Under the early White Australia Policy, restrictions on Asian immigrants were imposed to protect the White Australia. This reflected the values and attitudes at the time when many Australians considered Asia as a threat and defined themselves as separate from it. Since the removal of this policy in 1973, particularly in the past four decades, there has been a substantial boom of Asian immigration to Australia. They transformed Australia’s economy, society, culture, and more importantly, Australians’ attitudes toward Asia and Asians. Asian immigrants are therefore central to the study of intergroup communication in Australasia.

Environmental rights in the Asia Pacific region: taking stock and assessing impacts

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-206
Author(s):  
Joshua Gellers ◽  
Chris Jeffords
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Environmental Rights ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adoption And Implementation

Since their emergence in the 1970s, human rights relating to environmental protection have spread all over the world and continue to find homes in an ever-growing list of national constitutions. These provisions mainly fall into one of three categories – substantive, procedural, or derivative environmental rights. Over the last two decades, the proliferation of these rights has caught the attention of legal scholars and social scientists, who have sought to catalogue their distribution and analyze the origins and impacts of this development. The literature in this area has provided anecdotal updates concerning environmental rights jurisprudence at the national and regional levels and global quantitative assessments regarding the effects that such rights have on humans and the environment. However, scant work offers regionally-focused empirical examinations of the variation of the presence and impacts of environmental rights. In an effort toward filling this gap, this article utilizes statistical techniques in order to determine what, if any, correlation exists between environmental rights and environmental performance in the Asia Pacific region. Preliminary results suggest that, over the past several years, countries with environmental rights have experienced strong improvements in ecosystem vitality but weak reductions in measures of environmental health. In addition, there is evidence of important intra-regional differences – South and South-West Asia lay claim to some of the world's most innovative environmental rights jurisprudence, while North and Central Asia possess the region's greatest concentration of constitutions featuring environmental rights. The article concludes with several recommendations for policy-makers in the region regarding the adoption and implementation of environmental rights.

scholarly journals Reporting under fear and threats: the deadly cost of being a journalist in Pakistan and India

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-33
Author(s):  
Sadia Jamil ◽  
◽  
Prabhjot Sohal ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Failure To Protect

The journalists’ right to perform their watchdog role and to do their routine jobs without fear of being killed, kidnapped, harassed, and attacked is a topic of utmost importance for freedom of the media and freedom of expression. However, in the past decade, journalists’ killings across the globe indicate that journalism is no more a safe profession. Noticeably, the Asia-Pacific region is the third worst violator of media freedom in the world. While the level of media freedom and journalists’ safety is not better in the Middle East and the North African regions, the Asia-Pacific region stands out because it is home to the two of the top ten worst countries for journalists’ killings over the past 25 years, namely: Pakistan and India. Therefore, drawing on the system theory, this study aims to investigate the journalists’ lived experiences of diverse safety risks in Pakistan and India. To accomplish this aim, this study uses the qualitative methods of document reviews and in-depth interviews. Besides, this study uses thematic analysis to analyse the gathered data. The analyses of journalists’ lived experiences of safety risks reveal a stark systemic failure to protect them and safeguard their right to freedom of expression in these two countries.

Some Reflections on the Global and Asia-Pacific Situations in Occupational Health Education and Training

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 224-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
WO Phoon ◽  
KS Chia ◽  
J Jeyaratnam ◽  
D Koh
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
And Training ◽  
Occupational Health Teaching ◽  
Health Teaching

In the last two decades, there have been dramatic developments in the field of occupational health. With it, the importance of occupational health training and education is greatly appreciated. In a worldwide questionnaire survey on occupational health teaching in schools of medicine, 69.9% of the schools have some form of occupational health teaching for medical undergraduates. The total number of hours varies considerably but on average is 32.7 hours. Some occupational health teaching might however have been classified under other subject headings. In the Asia-Pacific region, several postgraduate degree courses were recently established. Continuing educational courses and short courses are on the rise. To take advantage of the existing primary health care systems, special courses for public health workers and primary health care personnel have been conducted. In the past, interest in occupational health education and training tended to be overshadowed by advances in epidemiology and pathogenesis of occupational diseases. Based on our experience over the past few years, occupational health training and education will gather greater momentum worldwide and in the Asia-Pacific region in particular.

scholarly journals Ending AIDS in the Asia–Pacific region by 2030: are we on track? Policy, epidemiological and intervention insights

Sexual Health ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kimberly Green ◽  
Heather-Marie A. Schmidt ◽  
Andrew J. Vallely ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Angela Kelly-Hanku ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Made In

The Asia–Pacific region is home to nearly 6 million people living with HIV. Across the region, key populations – men who have sex with men, transgender women, people who inject drugs, sex workers, prisoners – and their sexual partners make up the majority of those living with HIV. While significant progress has been made in the past 5 years towards UNAIDS’s 90–90–90 goals (90% of people with HIV diagnosed, 90% on antiretroviral therapy, 90% virologically suppressed), significant gaps remain. The papers in this Special Issue address important questions: are we on track to end the AIDS epidemic in the Asia–Pacific region? And can countries in this region reach the new UNAIDS targets for 2030?

scholarly journals FACS in the 21st century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jih-Ru Hwu ◽  
Dave Winkler
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Aspects

FACS is ideally positioned to be a powerful, inclusive, an outward-facing federation of chemical and allied societies in the Asia Pacific region. The Federation promotes networking and collaboration within the region and strong engagement in the broader international chemical community. Over the past three years, FACS has been refocused to capture these opportunities by the restructuring of three critical aspects of the FACS operations.

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