Asia

• Shifting purpose: Asia's rise and Canada's foreign aid.

This article analyzes Canada's foreign aid relations with Asia, including the range of motivations and reasons why the Canadian government, at this hi...

• International Journal
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 4, September 2009

• General Service Medal with the SOUTH-WEST ASIA ribbon - Order Awarding

• Canada Gazette Nbr. 24, March 31, 2010
• Part II - Official regulations
• General Campaign Star and General Service Medal Regulations, 2009

• Islam Came to South East Asia From China: Evidence From Traditional Chinese Roof Design in Kampung Laut's Old Mosque, Malaysia/ L'islam Est Venu En Asie Du Sud-Est de La Chine: Les Preuves de La Conception de Toit Du Style Traditionnel Chinois Dans Les Mosquées À Kampung Laut, En Malaisie

The objective of this study is to analyse influences of traditional Chinese roof construction elements to the roof design of Kampung Laut's Old Mosque in Malaysia. The result of this study can be used as an evidence that Islam came to South East Asia (the Malay Archipelagos) from East (China) in contrast to the most arguments claimed that Islam came from West (India and Arabian region). This study conducts roof construction analysis on Kampung Laut's Old Mosque (KLOM), which is the oldest mosque in Malaysia. There are several historical studies already shows evidences to support this argument. This argument however will be supported through architectural study. The study on the roof design elements are made in the literature study. The analysis finds that KLOM has principle roof constru...

• Canadian Social Science
• Vol. 6 Nbr. 5, September 2010

• A conversation on Canada-Asia relations.

On 30 Match 2009, the president and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Yuen Pau Woo, met with four distinguished Canadians for a conversati...

• International Journal
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 4, September 2009

• Two-Wheeled Pineapple Express

... countries in hot and humid Southeast Asia. The trip was both more and less daunting than it ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• January 09, 2012

• Democracy assistance in Asia and the role of China.

The promotion of democracy began with the urgent need to stave off the spread of communism after World War II. The imperative to prevent countries fro...

• International Journal
• Vol. 65 Nbr. 3, June 2010

• The Elderly and Family Change in Asia with a Focus in Iran: A Sociological Assessment

Elderly people and families are attracting the attention of many social scientists nowadays. The paper tries to explore how much social change in Asia is affecting family structure, and how deep elderly people are influenced by this transition. The trend of these studies has been following various ageing referring to socioeconomic implications for those societies. A concept of ageing being followed in industrial societies is not well defined or touched in many of Asian societies yet. Rising challenges out of the phenomenon need due to find solutions to avoid further complications and controversies as far as a changing in family is concerned. Consequences brought from ageing such as: loneliness, loss of status, being apart from productive system and similarly reduction in quality of life...

• Journal of Comparative Family Studies
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 4, October 2006

• Canada and Asia Pacific's track-two diplomacy.

Viewed in broad sweep, the most dramatic change in eastern Asia in the past 25 years may be the associational revolution that has accompanied the regi...

• International Journal
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 4, September 2009

• From conflict to collaboration: institution-building in East Asia.

There is so much written about China these days that we sometimes forger that there is a good deal more to East Asia than one massive country. Shaun N...

• Behind the Headlines
• Vol. 65 Nbr. 5, October 2008

• Inside Nuclear South Asia.

INSIDE NUCLEAR SOUTH ASIA Scott D. Sagan, editor Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 281pp, US $27.95 paper ISBN 978-0-8047-6239-7 ...

• International Journal
• Vol. 65 Nbr. 3, June 2010