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Books for Asia Pakistan joined The Asia Foundation’s regional Let’s Read! initiative on July 5th, contributing the first English-to-Urdu translation of the popular children’s book by Pratham Book’s Storyweaver, Didi and the Colorful Treasure. At an in-house session in Islamabad, two teams of staff members filled the role of editors and translators,… Read more

Coconuts Yangon highlights The Asia Foundation’s City Life Survey project and reports on how urban residents of Myanmar say they feel about the direction the cities and countries are heading in. Ever wonder what your fellow urbanites think about the city that they live in? A new survey by The Asia Foundation takes a first stab at figuring out what… Read more

On July 4th, The Asia Foundation collaborated with the Asian Development Bank and Korea Development Institute to organize an international conference “Advancing South-South Learning in Asia.”  The purpose of the conference was to discuss Asia’s vital role in improving links across the global south in trade, finance, and technology. The co… Read more

The Asia Foundation’s Pakistan office has successfully introduced a social media campaign ahead of Pakistan’s general elections scheduled for July 25th. VoteFirst uses social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to share videos, pictures, illustrations, graphics and positive messages to encourage citizens to vote. The campaign s… Read more

The Asia Foundation recently participated in the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. On July 3rd, the Government of Mongolia opened the three-day conference which was attended by over 3,000 participants including over 50 countries and 1,500 organizations. The conference, held every two years, is an organized collaboration… Read more

In a PTV News report, a Philippine digital strategy firm cites InAsia blog piece, “Social Media: A Game Changer in Philippines Elections,” written by former deputy country representative Maria Isabel T. Buenaobra. As the Philippine 2019 mid-term elections draw near, the analytics firm, David and Golyat, has advised social media users and the g… Read more

Southeast Asia Globe interviews James Owen about The Asia Foundation’s recent publication of City Life Survey: Myanmar 2017 Pilot Initiative. With Myanmar still in the early stages of democratic transition, there remains a lack of reliable data on the needs of the public, making the management of its cities more difficult. James Owen, an economist… Read more

The Irrawaddy details Myanmar’s Companies Law which will take effect on August 1st. The law was instituted with the hopes of bringing in more foreign investment, transparency and regulations. This law comes at a time when Western investors are concerned about civil unrest in the country and the Myanmar government is hoping to diversify investors, w… Read more

Brunei News cites The Asia Foundation’s InAsia blog post “Love Laos: Keep it Clean” in a piece reporting on how “Southeast Asian Nations Grapple with Worsening Plastic Trash Crisis.” Traditionally, most people in Laos lived a subsistence lifestyle, and their waste was primarily organic and decayed quickly. However, urbanisation and the shift to con… Read more

The Asia Foundation hosted a Let’s Read! Translation Event on June 23 and 24 with 10 teams consisting of editors and volunteers, including university students, who collaborated to translate and publish 50 children books from English to Khmer at the Foundation’s TEK4Good, a community space for tech startups. These books are now live on the Let’s Rea… Read more