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Thousands have been displaced in Timor-Leste and neighboring Indonesia after a tropical cyclone battered the Southeast Asian nations. Flash floods and landslides destroyed homes and have resulted in mass evacuations. Many buildings have been flooded including our Dili office, police headquarters, the presidential palace, hospitals, Covid-19 isolati… Read more

The Washington Post features key findings from The Asia Foundation’s Afghanistan Flash Survey: Perceptions of Peace, Covid-19, and the Economy in a piece assessing the country’s interim peace plan. Carried out in three waves of mobile phone surveys collected from 4,303 Afghan adults from all 34 provinces, the series of surveys is actively tracking… Read more

The Asia Foundation and Zendesk are partnering on a new social impact initiative to track and sustain women’s leadership networks in East and Southeast Asia in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The pandemic threatens to widen already serious gaps in women’s participation in the labor force and STEM fields specifically; a foc… Read more

After a three-month remote selection process, The Henry Luce Foundation and The Asia Foundation are delighted to announce the 2021–2022 class of Luce Scholars. This year, nominations came from over 70 participating colleges and universities screened by program staff from a dozen non-affiliated campuses. More than 160 applicants contended for 18 spo… Read more

The Asia Foundation is pleased to announce the participants of the 2021 Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) Workshop on Future Workforce. Hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, the Foundation will implement an eight-day virtual workshop May 16-23, bringing together 61 participants from ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste to learn bes… Read more

The Standford Social Innovation Review spotlights The Asia Foundation’s development entrepreneurship model in successfully driving reforms in the Philippines. The Asia Foundation was able to facilitate two significant reforms. First, through a combination of research, advocacy, lobbying, and network building, it helped formulate and pass legislatio… Read more

All of us at The Asia Foundation are united in our determination to reject, combat, and overcome discrimination in all its forms.  In the wake of continuing incidents of violence against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in the U.S., and a growing climate of racism and prejudice, we are renewing our commitments to counter violence,… Read more

A new report series, Covid-19 & The New Normal for Women in the Economy in South Asia, provides strong empirical evidence that the economic impact of the pandemic is expected to be particularly significant for women in South Asia, one of the top five affected regions in the world. The Asia Foundation’s regional synthesis report draws on four co… Read more

4:00 PM Pacific Seventy-five years after the onset of Asia’s Cold War, the world remains focused on the geopolitics of inter-Korean relations. Meanwhile, an emerging community of more than 33,000 refugees from North Korea currently live in South Korea; half aspiring to become entrepreneurs. Despite the potential insight the refugee community could… Read more

5:00 to 6:30 PM Pacific  The Asia Foundation is proud to support the Bay Area Council’s 11th annual Chinese New Year Celebration honoring former California Governor Edmund Brown with the Bay Area Council Global Leadership Award for his leadership in growing subnational ties with China on issues like trade and climate change. We recognize his c… Read more