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The Asia Foundation announces the appointment of Sofia Shakil as director of Economic Programs. She will oversee updates to the strategic focus of the Foundation’s support for inclusive economic growth in the Asia and Pacific regions, including policy and other support for advanced middle-income countries, Future of Work, women’s economic empowerme… Read more

Join The Asia Foundation for a discussion with Ambassador Ted Osius on his new book, Nothing is Impossible: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam. After a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 Americans and more than three million Vietnamese lives, Vietnam today is one of America’s strongest international partners with a thriving economy and a people… Read more

A new Asia Foundation report, Accelerating Women’s Advancement in STEM: Emerging Lessons on Network Strategies and Approaches in Asia, examines women-in-STEM networks and the barriers that women with careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) face. With support from Zendesk—and under a partnership focusing on gender equalit… Read more

9:00 am ET The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic roll-back of economic progress across Southeast Asia. While the region has managed to contain the spread of the virus better than most others, the economic impact on the region has been devastating. As a result of its heavy dependence on the tourism sector, Thailand has one of the worst affecte… Read more

“We can’t let Covid-19 win over our children’s education,” remarked Dr. Thomas LeBlanc, director for USAID Philippines’ Office of Education as USAID launched the Parent and Community Engagement Project with consecutive online events in Iriga City in Bicol and Roxas City in Western Visayas. Part of ABC+: Advancing Basic Education in the Philipp… Read more

Time: Various/Multi-day event The goal of the STITCH (Safeguarding Through Innovation and Technology Challenge) for RMG (readymade garments) Global Innovation Conference is to provide a platform for the industry actors and stakeholders to discuss disruptive future-work themes for the garment industry and find mitigation strategies to overcome… Read more

While swift measures on border control taken by Pacific Island governments to contain the spread of Covid-19 spared the region a health crisis on the scale faced in other parts of the world, the social and economic implications of the pandemic have been catastrophic for the region’s fragile economies. Rising unemployment in the tourism and other se… Read more

Please join The Asia Foundation for a discussion with Ambassador Nguyen Vu Tung on his new book, Flying Blind: Vietnam’s Decision to Join ASEAN. Amb. Nguyen’s book is a well-informed, highly-insightful account of why Vietnam joined ASEAN. His book illustrates how policymakers struggled to reconcile ideological and pragmatic considerations while nav… Read more

The Asia Foundation, together with Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Google hosted the fifth annual APEC App Challenge. Held on the eve of the 2021 APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting, the challenge asked 170 participants from 13 APEC member economies to develop and build new mobile and web tools to help the revival of the touri… Read more

While civil war and extremism in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq gain global attention, many other countries around the world are troubled by less intense yet still deeply damaging conflicts that often persist for decades. Local violence across Asia continues to cause death, destruction, and disruption as unstable politics, bloody historical legacies,… Read more