Asia Pacific- Research Journal of Area Study Centre, Far East & South East Asia is HEC recognized (Y-Category), peer-reviewed, and annually published journal in the field of social sciences. The prime purpose of bringing out this journal is to provide a forum to researchers, scholars, and academicians interested/engaged in interdisciplinary research on cultural, ethnic, linguistic, political, economic, security, trade, and business aspects of the Far East & Southeast Asian region.

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits them to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.  This system is already implemented by Sindh University Journal Online (SUJO) system.