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  • Call for Applications: 2025 Fuller Fellowship in Peacebuilding 
    Application period opens April 18 for the 2025 William P. Fuller Fellowship in Peacebuilding.   The Asia Foundation (TAF) will welcome a cohort of three fellows from Asia and the Pacific. The […]

  • Filipino Women Share Untold Stories and Maritime Agenda
    For more than thirty years, Beth Sarmiento has dedicated herself as a bantay dagat, or sea patrol volunteer. She’s the first woman from Masinloc, Zambales, to take on this role. […]

  • Myanmar Earthquake and Supporting Women-led Responses
    The conditions on the ground On March 28, a violent 7.7 magnitude earthquake shook Myanmar, followed by a 5.5 magnitude aftershock. The humanitarian situation is dire, with casualty figures still […]
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    The Asia Foundation Celebrates Major Velena Iga’s International Women of Courage Award
    The Asia Foundation congratulates Major Velena Iga of Papua New Guinea on receiving the 2025 International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State. Major Iga was recognized […]
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    How Go Digital ASEAN Transformed Small Businesses Across Southeast Asia
    Sawitree Srijinda is a single mother from Buriram province in northeastern Thailand. Her mounting debt forced her to make a difficult decision. She sold her farmland to pay off family […]
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    Participatory Research in Bangladesh: Empowering Communities Through Collaboration
    In Satkhira, a district in southwestern Bangladesh near the Sundarbans, communities have long faced the relentless impact of intensifying cyclones, tidal surges, and flooding that force families to grapple with […]

  • Go Digital ASEAN Boosts Digital Growth of more than 215,000 Small Businesses
    Kuala Lumpur, March 2025 – Go Digital ASEAN, a regional initiative dedicated to broadening digital skills across Southeast Asia, has concluded its second phase, equipping 215,896 micro, small and medium […]

  • Remembering Michael Armacost
    Ambassador Michael Armacost, distinguished diplomat and former trustee and board chair of The Asia Foundation, passed away on March 8, 2025, at the age of 87. Ambassador Armacost left an […]
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    Supporting Scholarship: Girls Can Do Anything
    Trâm was raised in a poor family in Vietnam’s Vinh Long province. Her mother was a housewife, and her father worked as a seasonal worker. Their humble thatched house couldn’t […]
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    Women Are Making it Their Business to Revitalize the Bangsamoro Region 
    Jenny Escudero has a cleft lip. She used to feel shame whenever she left her home in Isabela City on Basilan Island in the Philippines. The lack of accessible infrastructure […]

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