Last week in Nay Pyi Taw, H.E. U Zin Yaw, Myanmar’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Asia Foundation President 
Posts By Matthew Pendergast
Where in the World is Morwakee?
October 21, 2009
A group of local villagers crowded around us, some offering suggestions and some just watching the delightful spectacle of a group of foreigners lugging boxes of books. A local colleague who had driven us patiently over rugged, unmarked, rarely-traveled roads, peered at the map on the wall of the school as he tried to find [...]
Topics: Books for Asia
Countries: Thailand
Bangladesh’s Election Countdown
December 17, 2008
As Americans catch their breath from a marathon-long election season, the people of Bangladesh are just weeks from casting their ballots in their own historic, long-awaited election. And just as Americans were glued to newspapers, computers, and televisions in the days preceding our polling day, Bangladeshis are similarly engrossed in local media coverage of national [...]
Topics: Elections
Countries: Bangladesh
Earth Day 2008: Finding Pogo and The Geography of Hope
April 16, 2008
Two weeks ago, I wrote a post on this blog about going to the Yosemite Valley with a group of Mongolian educators, and I talked about rivers and bugs and the importance of putting environmental monitoring tools directly in the hands of Mongolian citizens (click here to see a short film on the group visiting [...]
Topics: Environment
Countries: Mongolia
Mongolian Gold, Sacred Rivers, and Hunting for Bugs in the California High-Country
April 2, 2008
“Everything is connected. John Muir explored these very mountains and came to that same conclusion. That’s how we approach the environment in Mongolia — by understanding that everything is part of a system.” We’re in the car descending into the magnificent Yosemite Valley in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. Chris Plante, The Asia Foundation’s Director for [...]
Topics: Environment
Countries: Mongolia