ABSTRACT
CH A P T E 9 Regulatory Structures and Issues in Asia and Oceania Kwan-Hoong Ng Department of Biomedical Imaging and Medical Physics Unit, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Aik-Hao Ng Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Malaysia
Marina binti Mishar Department of Technical Cooperation, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
A sia has an incredibly diverse cultural, educational, social, and eco-nomic background. Some four billion (60%) of the world populationreside in Asia and it boasts hundreds of languages and dialects. It is also a land of extremes and contrasts. It has the highest mountains and most of the longest rivers, highest plateaus, and largest deserts and plains of all the continents. Asia is also home to some of the world’s oldest cultures. It has some of the poorest as well as some of the richest nations in the world (Ng 2008; Sun, Ng 2012).
