Table of Contents

2.1 Introduction: The overview of honey bee diversity in Asia and bee health.- 2.2 Beekeeping in Turkey The Last Point of Asia towards Europe.- 2.3 Beekeeping in Parts of The Levant Region.- 2.4 Beekeeping History and Current Situation in Israel.- 2.5 Beekeeping and Honey Hunting in Nepal: Current Status and Future Perspectives.- 2.6 Beekeeping in India.- 2.7 Beekeeping in mainland, China.- 2.8 Beekeeping in Taiwan, China.- 2.9 Beekeeping in Russia.- 2.10 Beekeeping in Korea; Past, Current and Future Challenge.- 2.11 Beekeeping in Mongolia.- 2.12 Beekeeping in Japan.- 2.13 Development of beekeeping in Laos: various strategic choices.- 2.14 Beekeeping in Vietnam.- 2.15 Beekeeping in Thailand.- 2.16 Social bees and current status of beekeeping in Indonesia.- 2.17 Bee diversity in the Philippines and current status of beekeeping.- 2.18 Future perspectives.

About the Author

Panuwan Chantawannakul (Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)Geoffrey Williams (Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology, Auburn University, USA)Peter Neumann (Inst. of Bee Health, University of Bern, Switzerland)