The proliferation of wild boar in Hong Kong, mainland China and worldwide is prompting policies to control them and head off a potentially major threat to human health.
A chronicle of current food trends and the danger of bifurcation into two systems – one focused on low cost and value, the other on nutrition and quality.
A personal reflection on leaving Hong Kong due to its public-health policies and the pressures they imposed.
The coronavirus pandemic has re-energized moves to achieve a sharing economy.
Post-Covid-19 resilient cities will be those that take advantage of the built environment to prevent mental ill health.
Workers are left at the mercy of employers, who laid off an estimated 10 percent of the workforce.
What is required is a global conversation to address an age-old challenge: the balancing act of modifying or dismantling existing dogma and presupposition.
These efforts must be pragmatic, holistic and sustainable.
Given the challenge of finding the right drugs to treat malaria and the impact of climate change on its spread, scholars explore the malaria-cancer connection.
The pandemic has accelerated innovation efforts and increased the willingness to conduct higher-risk experimentation. What are some potential lessons for Asia?
A rethinking of development strategy and planning beyond the traditional economic- and city-centric world is essential, especially in the Global South.
A new dangerous kind of nationalism amalgamating underlying global challenges is on the rise: vaccine nationalism.
Apart from collaboration in health and medicine, ASEAN has been inconsistent – even confrontational – in matters where cooperation would be the best course of action.
A more calibrated containment strategy can and should be developed using insights gleaned from big data.
Health authorities must adopt a targeted approach so that different populations or population segments are treated differently based on their relative risk assessment.
Many food-importing countries must boost domestic food production during the pandemic, but withdrawing from global trade is not the answer to promoting food security.
While drastic actions may yield success in controlling the spread of the coronavirus, they will likely lead to severe damage to economies that may be felt for years
There is a serious crisis looming in Covid-19's wake, potentially resulting in the premature deaths of tens of millions of people across the world.
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