East Asia's youth are increasingly disappointed with traditional politics, leading to diverse patterns of political disengagement across the region. In Japan, young people are turning away from ...

People's decision to get married later and ... With better understanding of the population dynamics of East Asia, and learning from the experiences of countries with low fertility rates, we ...

IDA has been a committed partner in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region for over six decades. Its support has helped countries achieve strong and stable growth that has lifted hundreds of millions ...

The 36th anniversary of Tiananmen Square has passed, marking another year in which China and the majority of East Asia’s political economy remain firmly authoritarian.

The project trains families and community volunteers in homecare for older people. For more details, download Community based homecare for older people in South East Asia (745kb). In March 2009, ...

Even more surprisingly, the team reported that present-day people living on the islands ... there are a great many unclassified Homo fossils from eastern Asia, and it’s not obvious how many ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and ...

Economic growth in South-East Asia has given people more disposable income to indulge in games. But more significant is the rise of China, a country obsessed with gambling. For years, the Chinese ...

TOKYO -- Military spending in East Asia jumped 7.8% on the year to $433 billion in 2024, a new report shows, as countries continued to enhance war-fighting capabilities amid heightening tensions ...

The historian Walter Scheidel noted that “East Asia was characterized ... it is estimated that in the year 1000 CE, South Asia had 85.2 million people and Europe contained 56.4 million.

One of the most pressing is the need to develop a new generation of public health leaders across South-east Asia – people who can lead research and development, champion vaccine production and ...