AI is revolutionizing healthcare in Japan and East Asia, addressing aging populations, healthcare costs, and accessibility challenges. AI-driven precision medicine enhances early disease detection and ...

At an online seminar for Global Climate Change Week 2024, Emeritus Professor Stephen Sterling challenged us to conceptualise a new ontology and epistemology for higher education that would transcend ...

With accelerated climate change the fragility of our planet is becoming more and more apparent. Persistent inequalities, social fragmentation, and political extremism are bringing many societies to a ...

Education in arts and sciences was often directed by religious institutions in the Middle Ages. Mosques, maktabs (elementary religious schools) and madrasas (secondary religious schools) were ...

The Lord Buddha was born in 623 BC in the sacred area of Lumbini located in the Terai plains of southern Nepal, testified by the inscription on the pillar erected by the Mauryan Emperor Asoka in 249 ...

Along with cultural elements, traditions, and religious beliefs, languages also travelled on the Silk Roads. Spread into the western regions of the Silk Roads, Arabic is one of the languages that was ...

The first museum in Afghanistan was established in 1919 at the Bagh-i-Bala palace overlooking Kabul, and consisted of manuscripts, miniatures, weapons and art objects belonging to the former royal ...

Large collection of over 1600 works on ten great and small sciences of traditional Buddhism (philosophy, technology, logic, medicine, philology, astrology, model dance, poetics, Abhidarma, composition ...

A large and impressive network of sea routes that linked the East and West stretching from the west coast of Japan, through the Islands of Indonesia, around the Indian subcontinent to the Iranian ...

The Kitan were a tribe based in northern China who conserved their distinctive identity throughout the Middle Ages, despite absorption into several different states and empires. They are documented ...

The Great Silk Road is a system of caravan routes of ancient times and in the Middle Ages which connected Asia with the Mediterranean and European world. These routes highly influenced the development ...

Central Asia has a rich architectural heritage from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Both the Mughal Empire in India and the Mongol Empire in northern Central Asia have left ...