For most of today’s 7.5 billion people, traditional medicines remain an integral part of their lives despite the continuing expansion of an already formidable modern healthcare system built on the principles of Western science and market forces. In Asia, home to 60% of the world’s population, there is a deeprooted belief that traditional medicines hold […]

They shared a common opposition to Beijing’s authoritarian rule, but the late Chinese dissident and human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo was no separatist as he stood against Hong Kong’s independence advocates, according to a Canadian academic. Leo K. Shin, a University of British Columbia (UBC) historian and Hong Kong analyst, said Liu, who died of […]