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Time: To be determined 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 their chall… Read more

3:00 – 4:30 pm ET 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 to… Read more

9:00 am ET 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 consideration… 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

6:00 pm PT 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 historica… Read more

The Asia Foundation, the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, and the National Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations (NIDIR) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation launched a joint workshop today on diplomatic tradecraft to promote the exchange of ideas and best practices in key areas and enhance cooperation with Cambo… Read more

The Asia Foundation’s Go Digital ASEAN project and its activities in Singapore and Indonesia featured on Singapore’s Money FM 89.3 in a radio interview with Google.org’s APAC lead Marija Ralic. The digital literacy initiative spans Southeast Asia and will train up to 200,000 people in marginalized communities across the region. Listen to the segmen… Read more

Today, The Asia Foundation and Australian Government initiated a new program to support Mongolia’s women entrepreneurs and address the economic and social challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Australia’s Partnership for Recovery funding to the Foundation will target women entrepreneurs and other beneficiaries in Ulaanbaatar, Orkhon, Darkhan-U… Read more

The Asia Foundation announces the appointment of Robin Bush as country representative in Malaysia. She will oversee the programs and operations for the Malaysia office to strengthen entrepreneurship and international competitiveness, improve security in vulnerable regions, and engage young Malaysians to bolster and adapt their digital skills to the… Read more

Aiming to close the digital gap for 200,000 micro, small and medium business owners in Southeast Asia, The Asia Foundation, Pailig Development Foundation, Clevergrit Web Services, and Yoveo Digital, with support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, have teamed up to provide digital literacy training through the Go Digital ASEAN regional ini… Read more