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Today, The Asia Foundation and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) released a new publication, Emerging Lessons on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Asia and the Pacific: Case Studies from the Asian Development Bank and The Asia Foundation. The joint undertaking explores the most pressing challenges women entrepreneurs face in the region and includes compel… Read more

The Asia Foundation and the Better Broadband Alliance released a new report, From Analog to Digital: Philippine Policy and Emerging Internet Technologies, in support of a more digital-friendly policy environment in the Philippines. In an increasingly digitizing world, the country’s existing policy framework has not changed much since 1995 and conti… Read more

9:30 am – 11:00 am Choate Room, 1st Floor, 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Women’s entrepreneurship is increasingly understood to be a key driver of economic growth and job creation: an estimated $4.5 trillion could be added to Asia and the Pacific’s GDP by 2025 by closing the gender disparities in economic opportunities. Widely rec… Read more

Today, The Asia Foundation and Cambodia’s General Secretariat of the National Council for Sustainable Development (GSSD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Collaboration and Capacity Building on Green Economy. The objective of the MOU is to strengthen, promote, and develop cooperation in solar energy, solid waste management, and other po… Read more

The Guardian features landscape architect and 2016 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom in an article about her efforts to address worsening floods in Thailand. The article details Voraakhom’s anti-flood park, the 11-acre Centenary Park at Chulalongkorn University, which houses vast underground water containers that can hold a mi… Read more

The Asia Foundation announces the appointment of Dr. Nicola Nixon as its new director of Governance. With 20 years of experience in international development and academia, Nixon will lead the Foundation’s governance programs across the 18 countries and three sub-regions of Asia in which it works. Nixon brings to the Foundation a depth of expertise… Read more

The Asia Foundation announces the appointment of Kwang W. Kim as country representative in Korea, effective today. Kim joins the Foundation as a global expert in sustainable business models and public-private initiatives with multilateral finance organizations, the private sector, and academia. He has advised cabinet ministers and C-suite executive… Read more

This week, The Asia Foundation released a new report, ASEAN as the Architect for Regional Development Cooperation on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. The research report examines the potential role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in shaping development assistance in Sou… Read more

On September 11, The Asia Foundation, in partnership with the Beijing Rongzhi Corporate Social Responsibility Institute hosted the Northeast Asia Regional Seminar on Overseas Investment Compliance, in Beijing. The seminar focused on overseas operational risks and compliance management of enterprises under the context of globalization. Opening remar… Read more

2017 Asia Foundation Development Fellow, Surya Karki from Nepal, has been named a Fellow in Facebook’s inaugural Community Leadership Program. The Facebook Community Leadership Program (FCLP) is a global initiative that endeavors to empower leaders around the world to increase their impact in their communities. The program selected from a pool… Read more