Islamic Banking and Finance in South-East Asia: Its Development and Future

Islamic banking seems to be an unfamiliar concept in Indian economy. Besides having a huge potential, Islamic finance is considered to be infeasible and impractical in Indian conventional system of banking. The search for alternatives to conventional banking in the aftermath of the global financial crisis trained the spotlights on Islamic banking in many parts of the world. Today that Islamic banking has unfortunately been misunderstood in India as a religious charitable venture restricted to the country’s Muslim community. Despite its striking growth in other parts of world such as the Middle East, South East Asia (which chiefly include Malaysia and Indonesia) and Europe, it is yet to be positioned as a realistic alternative financial system and not a religious one. In this paper, an attempt is made to understand the underlying concept of Islamic banking and finance and erode some of the major misconceptions in the same context.

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Understanding conflict resolution strategies in South East Asia

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e627722013-065 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Mrignaini Goel ◽

Mylliem Adrian Lambert ◽

Syafiqah Binti Yahya

Keyword(s):

Conflict Resolution ◽

East Asia ◽

South East Asia ◽

Conflict Resolution Strategies ◽

Resolution Strategies

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CIScoSI Study [Children Immunization Status and cases of Systemic Illness]

Medical & Clinical Research ◽

10.33140/mcr.03.03.02 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

Keyword(s):

Infectious Diseases ◽

East Asia ◽

Pediatric Patients ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Immunization Coverage ◽

South East Asia ◽

Immunization Status ◽

Tertiary Care Hospitals ◽

Total Coverage

To determine the immunization status of pediatric patients under age of 5 years visiting pediatric department of tertiary care hospitals in South East Asia. The aim of this study was to appreciate the awareness and implementation of vaccination in pediatric patients who came into pediatric outpatient Department with presenting complain other than routine vaccination. we can also know the count of patients who do not complete their vaccination after birth. we can differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients and incidence of severe disease in both groups. Immunization is a protective process which makes a person resistant to the harmful diseases prevailing in the community, typically by vaccine administration either orally or intravenously. It is proven for controlling and eliminating many threatening diseases from the community. WHO report that licensed vaccines are available for the prevention of many infectious diseases. After the implementation of effective immunization the rate of many infectious diseases have declined in many countries of the world. South-East Asia is far behind in the immunization coverage. An estimated total coverage is 56%-88% for a fully immunized child, which is variable between countries. Also the coverage is highest for BCG and lowest for Polio.

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Maidstone's woodpecker – an unexpected bird specimen in the herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2014.0244 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 230-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Charles E. Jarvis ◽

Joanne H. Cooper

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

East Asia ◽

East India Company ◽

South East Asia

It had long been believed that none of the bird, egg or nest specimens that had been in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane at his death in 1753 had survived. However, a specimen of a rhinoceros hornbill, originally in Sloane's hands, was discovered in the Natural History Museum's collections in London in 2003, and three more Sloane hornbill specimens have subsequently come to light. In addition, we report here a most unexpected discovery, that of the head of a woodpecker among the pages of one of Sloane's bound volumes of pressed plants. The context suggests that the head, like its associated plant specimens, was probably collected in south-east Asia about 1698–1699 by Nathanael Maidstone, an East India Company trader, the material reaching Sloane via William Courten after the latter's death in 1702. A detailed description of the head is provided, along with observations on its identity and possible provenance.

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