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 Faculty of Social Science 4004, 120 University Private, Ottawa Afghanistan is at an important moment in its history. Despite a persistent insurgency that continues to control and destabilize roughly half of the country, high levels of voter enthusiasm in the recent parliamentary elections demonstrated that the people of Afghanistan remain inv… Read more

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) features Asia Foundation trustee Ambassador Kathleen Stephens in a video interview, “Living History with Ambassador Kathleen Stephens.” In the first of the two-part interview series, Amb. Stephens reflects on her experience as a Peace Corp volunteer and junior diplomatic officer during the… Read more

The Bureau of Research on Industry and Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF), supported by the Asia Foundation, launched a new report, The Political Economy of Rice Trade Between Bangladesh, India and Nepal, on January 22, at the India International Centre. In Bangladesh, India and Nepal, rice is the staple food for most of the population and comprises app… Read more

The Asia Foundation announces the election of Sunder Ramaswamy as chairman of the board; Timothy Kochis and Ambassador Kathleen Stephens as vice chairs; and Jerome L. Dodson, Patricia M. Loui, and Deanne Weir as trustees. Additionally, Iromi Perera and Dustin Palmer are joining the board as term trustees. President David D. Arnold welcomed them: “O… Read more

The Asia Foundation collaborated with 90 volunteers in Hanoi to translate 100 children’s books into Vietnamese and publish them on Let’s Read, its free digital library for children. The events, held on December 20, 2018 and January 3, 2019, brought together editors from Kim Dong Publishing House as well as faculty members and students from Universi… Read more

The Wall Street Journal features an op-ed written by Afghan politician and women’s rights activist Fawzia Koofi. The article analyzes the government’s peace settlement with the Taliban and cites key findings from the 2018 Survey of the Afghan People.  The Taliban knows, after all, that it would have no place in Afghanistan if it competed in an… Read more

Kotchakorn Voraakhom, a 2016 Asia Foundation Development Fellow, presents a TEDTalk on transforming cities into landscapes that fight floods while also reconnecting residents to their natural environment. Voraakhom was part of the TEDWomen 2018 program, an annual three-day event of forward thinkers with bold ideas. Her TEDTalk was also a featured h… Read more

Asia Foundation trustee Daniel F. Feldman joins Covington & Burling LLP, an international law firm, as a senior counsel in the firm’s Public Policy practice and a member of Global Problem Solving initiative. His distinguished government career also includes serving as Director of Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Co… Read more

Bloomberg Opinion features The Third Revolution, a book on China by Asia Foundation trustee Elizabeth Economy. The op-ed was written by Hal Brands of the John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, who names The Third Revolution as a “must-read book of 2018.” Read the op-ed here.

On December 28, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) presented the ‘Best Partnership’ award to The Asia Foundation for the Women’s Business Center and Incubator Project in Mongolia. KOICA President Mi-kyung Lee delivered the letter of appreciation to Kwang Kim, country representative of The Asia Foundation in Korea. The Women’s Busine… Read more