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Applications are now open for the 2023 Asia Foundation Development Fellows: Emerging Leadership for Asia’s Future Program. The Asia Foundation is searching for its ninth cohort of highly talented Development Fellows. Applications will be open through September 16, 2022. Launched in 2014, The Asia Foundation Development Fellows program brings togeth… Read more

The Asia Foundation mourns the tragic and shocking death of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe was an influential leader who transformed Japan’s global role, energized its foreign policy, expanded its global influence, and was deeply devoted to the people of Japan and the cause of global peace and security. He was an extraordinary figure… Read more

The Asia Foundation is launching the recruitment process for a new leader to succeed David D. Arnold. After 12 years as The Asia Foundation President & CEO, Arnold will step down at the end of 2022. A specially constituted search committee of the Board of Trustees is leading the process to recruit and select the new president. The Foundation is… Read more

On June 10, 2022, The Asia Foundation’s Coalitions for Change (CfC} program, with the support from the Australian Embassy in the Philippines, hosted its third online course, “Development Entrepreneurship: 12 Keys to Successful Policy Reform.” The four-week course brought together 74 development professionals from 19 countries across Asia to learn a… Read more

Today, The Asia Foundation releases its new annual report which is now available online. Please enjoy stories from across the Foundation’s many offices, as well as highlights of unique initiatives of the last year, including our Go Digital ASEAN digital literacy training, the Climate Action Initiative, the dramatic expansion of Let’s Read, and the… Read more

Google blog The Keyword spotlights The Asia Foundation’s Go Digital ASEAN initiative in a piece written by Google’s President for the Asia Pacific, Scott Beaumont, on the company’s continued commitment to micro, small and medium enterprises in the Asia Pacific. The Go Digital ASEAN initiative broadens digital skills participation in 10 countries fo… Read more

The ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (ACCMSME) and The Asia Foundation released the Go Digital ASEAN Impact Summary Report today to mark this year’s international Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day (MSME) Day. Implemented in ten ASEAN Member States in 2021 and 2022, the US$3.3M “Go Digital ASEAN” public… Read more

On June 15, 2022, The Asia Foundation, in collaboration with Cambodia’s National Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations (NIDIR) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC), launched a joint speaker series on economic diplomacy. It is the first of three speaker events focused on facilitating an exchange of k… Read more

Located in the center of the Asia-Pacific region, Laos faces many challenges as one of Asia’s least developed economies and Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country. Its geographic location makes Laos extremely vulnerable to climate change and other environmental challenges. While Laos had success managing the early outbreak of Covid-19, the impact… Read more

Despite differences in political ideology, relations between South Korea, the United States, and Vietnam have deepened and evolved since formal diplomatic relations with Vietnam were established more than a quarter-century ago. Overlapping strategic and economic interests have led the three countries to expand ties across a wide spectrum of issues…. Read more