Two headlines: “Conflict-hit Yemen on edge of famine, warns UN” and “North and South Korea Trade Fire Across Border, Seoul Says”. From the Far West to the Far East, Asia is a continent in ...

Asia Foundation, Asia: The World’s Most Water-Stressed Continent, March 21, 2012 World Bank, Renewable internal freshwater resources, total (billion cubic meters), 2014 ...

How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding By Nile Green Yale University Press 472 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

By the late 1960s, Asia was the poorest continent in the world when it came to income levels, marginal except for its large population. Its social indicators of development, among the worst ...

A MULTITUDE OF CIVILIZATIONS On reading this book, however, the reader is struck by one basic question: What is Asia anyway? The continent is so large and diverse, and its leading countries are so ...

As Ronald H. Spector tells us in “A Continent Erupts,” the end of World War II marked not a new era of peace in Asia but the point at which wars began afresh.