scholarly journals Psychiatric services in Myanmar a historical perspective

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 506-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khin-Maung-Zaw
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Developing Nation ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War

Myanmar, until recently known as Burma, is a developing nation in south-east Asia. Burmese kings and emperors ruled this land until 1885, when it fell into the hands of the British. It gained its independence in 1948. Burma has a mainly agricultural economy and has a rich fertile soil. At one stage in the post-war history Myanmar was renowned as ‘the rice bowl of the world’. It is blessed with abundant natural resources such as teak and precious stones. Myanmar covers a land area twice that of the British Isles with a population of around 42 million.

scholarly journals Intact forests of the Hkakabo Razi Landscape are a hotspot of bat diversity in South-east Asia

Oryx ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Paul J. J. Bates ◽  
Pipat Soisook ◽  
Sai Sein Lin Oo ◽  
Marcela Suarez-Rubio ◽  
Awatsaya Pimsai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
New Records ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Bat Conservation ◽  
Distribution And Ecology ◽  
Bat Diversity ◽  
High Diversity

Abstract The Hkakabo Razi Landscape, in northern Kachin, Myanmar, is one of the largest remaining tracts of intact forest in South-east Asia. In 2016, we undertook a survey in its southern margins to assess bat diversity, distribution and ecology and evaluate the importance of the area for global bat conservation. Two collecting trips had taken place in the area in 1931 and 1933, with four bat species reported. We recorded 35 species, 18 of which are new for Kachin. One species, Murina hkakaboraziensis, was new to science and three, Megaerops niphanae, Phoniscus jagorii, Murina pluvialis, were new records for Myanmar. Our findings indicate high bat diversity in Hkakabo Razi; although it comprises only 1.7% of Myanmar's land area, it is home to 33.6% of its known bat species. This emphasizes Hkakabo Razi's importance for conserving increasingly threatened, forest-interior bats, especially in the families Kerivoulinae and Murininae. There is also a high diversity of other mammals and birds within the Hkakabo Razi Landscape, which supports its nomination as a World Heritage Site.

Fishing for a Career: Alternative Livelihoods and the Hardheaded Art of Academic Failure

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-167
Author(s):  
Deb Cleland
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Alternative Livelihoods ◽  
Alternative Livelihood ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Charting the course: The world of alternative livelihood research brings a heavy history of paternalistic colonial intervention and moralising. In particular, subsistence fishers in South East Asia are cyclical attractors of project funding to help them exit poverty and not ‘further degrade the marine ecosystem’ (Cinner et al. 2011), through leaving their boats behind and embarking on non-oceanic careers. What happens, then, when we turn an autoethnographic eye on the livelihood of the alternative livelihood researcher? What lexicons of lack and luck may we borrow from the fishers in order to ‘render articulate and more systematic those feelings of dissatisfaction’ (Young 2002) of an academic’s life’s work and our work-life? What might we learn from comparing small-scale fishers to small-scale scholars about how to successfully ‘navigate’ the casualised waters of the modern university? Does this unlikely course bring any ideas of ‘possibilities glimmering’ (Young 2002) for ‘exiting’ poverty in Academia?

scholarly journals Singapore, A Growing Economic Titan from South East Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
Ignatius Hubert Tantra
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
East Asia ◽  
International System ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Institutional Leadership ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Land Mass

Singapore has one of the fastest economic development pace throughout South East Asia. Despite the fact that by land mass, it is not the biggest or the most fertile country. By demographic factor, it is not the most populated nor the most culturally diverse country. It also didn’t have the natural resources that its neighboring countries boasted as their main commodity. Yet, Singapore is a country with one of the most efficient implementation of living space, land usage, and education programme in the world. Because of its greatness, Singapore can be put in the same class with the others developed countries in the world. This is despite all the handicap that this country has, through the thick and thin of its history. The author believes that these successes can be atributted mostly to the efficient leadership of Singapore as a nation state in the international system, and that these successes can be adapted throughout Asia, and the world as a whole. This essay was made exactly to achieve this successful impact on ASEAN’s countries economics. In this writing, the author will examine what makes Singapore such a great economic titan, and how it can turn its unlikely position into a flourishing market economy and becoming a model for other developing countries to replicate, with institutional leadership. All of these, for the purpose of learning, and in the bid of rejuvenating economic vigor that most Asian countries and developing countries needed to keep up and even compete with more prominent countries in the international political system of the world.

Travelling through East and South East Asia with John Saboe

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-312
Author(s):  
Scott Sommers
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Current Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

John Saboe is one of the leading travel YouTubers on the internet, with dozens of podcasts dealing with a wide range of issues on travel throughout East Asia. His current work, The Far East Travels Podcast (https://fareasttravels.com/), receives thousands or even tens of thousands of views. He has been involved in broadcasting for most of his working life. Beginning in high school, John developed an interest spanning audio podcasts, digital podcasts and publishing a digital magazine, in addition to a background working in traditional radio and TV. He has taught at the Columbia Academy in Vancouver and currently runs training seminars in different aspects of internet broadcasting for customers all around the world.

The World Beyond Europe: An Introduction to the History of Africa, India, South East Asia, and the Far East.

1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
John Davidson ◽  
George Alexander Jensen ◽  
Charles W. Forman ◽  
John J. Saunders ◽  
Joseph R. Levenson
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Two Centuries of Nautical Instruments in Japan

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-310
Author(s):  
Torao Mozai
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Grasp ◽  
Short Time

The first reference to western techniques of navigation in Japan is in the Genna-Kohkaisho or The Navigation Arts in the Age of Genna by Koh-un-Ikeda, written in 1618 just sixty-three years after the first Portuguese visit to Japan. During these sixty-three years the Japanese had built some western-style sailing vessels and actually used western techniques for navigation to south-east Asia. The author shows a good grasp of western navigation. For instance Ikeda had asked his teacher, the Portuguese captain Gonsaro (Japanese pronunciation) ‘Is there any method of obtaining the latitude when the sky is clouded for a short time just as the Sun or the star transits the meridian?’ Captain Gonsaro answers ‘It is of course impossible, no one in the world can ever do it.’ Ikeda suggests the possibility of estimating the altitude of the Sun or star on the meridian and one can see now that this foreshadows the famous ex-meridian method that was developed much later.

Global Doctrine and Local Knowledge: Law in South East Asia

2002 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Harding
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Human Society ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
South East Asian Region ◽  
East Asian Region ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Short Space ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between the global and the local is one of critical importance to all regions of the world. In the resolution of the tension between the irresistible surge of globalisation and the undeniable facts of society as it actually exists in the various localities which together comprise the very world which is presumably the object or the subject-matter of globalisation, law lies at the forefront. It is, one might say, the very intellectual battlefield which we have selected for the resolution of the major problem facing human society at the turn of the century. The purpose of this article is therefore to investigate, in a somewhat narrative fashion the relationship between the global and the local in the context of law in South East Asia. The topic is clearly too large to be dealt with in a short space with the rigour and articulation it really deserves, but it is hoped that the approach adopted will provide some kind of a frame of reference for regarding, studying, and hopefully improving, the law in the South East Asian region; and will perhaps focus a pencil of light on the problems of the global and the local in this particular regional context.

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