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This paper shows the situation and position of Asian communication research in international communication study field through analyzing the quantity and distribution of International Communication Association's members in Asia, the time-changes of communication scholars from Asian countries who attend the annual meeting of International Communication Association, and the searching results in the four journals published by International Communication Association via the key words as Asia and Asian countries. The paper provides analysis and research of the background and academic ecological condition to communication study's Asian perspective and forecasts the future of communication study from Asian perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the relationship between international trade and employment by the panel data of 63 countries from 1991 to 2008. It is found that export openness from the global perspective has significant positive effect on employment, but import has negative effects on employment, though not significant. As for the developed and developing countries, export can benefit the employment for both, but import will damage the employment of the north and south and the developed countries will have a more serious negative influence. As for regional regression, export can still help increase the employment of all regions, but the effect in Latin American is not significant; the developing countries of East and Southeast Asia have the most significant positive effect, but the import has a negative impact on employment, and only that in the Latin American countries can promote their employment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]