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9:30 am – 11:00 am Choate Room, First Floor, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 Online platforms have the ability to shift the power for economic and social development into the hands of people who need it most. Hundreds of millions of people in the Asia Pacific are already using platforms to connect and trade with each other and a… Read more

The Asia Foundation today announced the 2019 class of Asia Foundation Development Fellows: Emerging Leadership for Asia’s Future following a highly competitive selection process.

The Boeing Company and The Asia Foundation announce a one-year vocational training program in Hanoi and Hai Duong to provide a holistic training program focused on practical information technology skills development for disadvantaged young adults in Hanoi and Hai Duong provinces. The Asia Foundation has been working to support youth in Vietnam, par… Read more

HONORING Christiane Amanpour Award-winning journalist, CNN and PBS AND SafetiPin India-based social enterprise making cities safer for women MASTER OF CEREMONY Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Council on Foreign Relations HONORARY CO-CHAIRS Janet Montag Hee-Jung Moon Mandarin Oriental New York, 80 Columbus Circle 6:30 pm Reception 7:30 pm Dinner The Asia Found… Read more

The Asia Foundation supported the launch of a new book that examines problems in the Philippines’ prevailing electoral system and presents new options for converting votes to seats in Strong Patronage, Weak Parties: The Case for Electoral System Redesign in the Philippines. Launched together with Anvil Publishing and The Australian National Univers… Read more

On January 23, 2019, The Asia Foundation office hosted a roundtable on “Ensuring Justice Delivery for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence and Trafficking” at the International Habitat Centre in New Delhi. The Asia Foundation’s India office convened members of Indian civil society, law practitioners, trafficking and gender experts, as well as represe… Read more

Scholars and policymakers across the region came together to this week to explore the longstanding partnership between the United States and the Philippines and future areas of cooperation. The February 7-8 conference, “The Future of the U.S.–Philippines Bilateral Relationship” was organized by The Asia Foundation and Ateneo School of Government, a… Read more

In the 13th edition of the 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program names The Asia Foundation’s Afghanistan office as one of the top ten think tanks in Central Asia. Since its inception in 2006, the objective of the report has been to acknowledge and gain a better understand… Read more

The Asia Foundation is pleased to announce the participants of the 2019 Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) Workshop on Eco & Sustainable Tourism, a program of the U.S. Department of State. The week-long workshop will take place March 4-8, 2019 in Luang Prabang, Laos, bringing together 50 participants from ASEAN countries and T… Read more

The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa examines key findings from The Asia Foundation’s annual Survey of the Afghan People in a two-part blog feature, “A Nation in Transition: Afghan Perspectives on Society, Politics, and Economics, 2004 and 2018.” Comparing the survey results from 2004 and 2018, the article… Read more