Funded by the U.S. State Dept., cross-border project focuses on ‘peri-urban’ development issues
HONOLULU (Feb. 3, 2012) – East-West Center environmental researchers have launched a new cooperative project with specialists in India and Pakistan to collaborate on studying development issues in critical ‘peri-urban’ areas that lie between cities and the countryside.
Hyderabad, India. Photo: Jules Joseph.
HONOLULU (Jan. 27, 2012) -- In the wake of last year’s tsunami and nuclear crisis in Fukushima, environmental concerns and health fears have heightened among everyday citizens in Japan, and skepticism has spread about information from government and corporate sources, writes Purdue University political science professor Daniel P. Aldrich in a new East-West Center policy brief.
EWC Senior Fellow Denny Roy discusses possible Chinese reactions to the recent Taiwan election on Public Radio's "The World."
Southeast Asia "has become the arena where Chinese power and ambition confront an established U.S. military presence reinvigorated by renewed American attention to the region," writes public policy scholar Marvin C. Ott in a new Asia Pacific Bulletin commentary.
The EWC’s AsiaPacificEd Program for Schools launched the AsiaPacificEd Crossings Website and educational initiative. This online resource, established just prior to the APEC Summit in Honolulu, has already enabled more than 1,400 K-12 students and educators from 48 schools in eight APEC economies (Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and United States) to explore and connect with the Asia Pacific region. ...more...
Pacific Islands Report
An edited digest of daily news, analysis and commentary from across Oceania.
Asia Matters for America
An online hub for exploring graphical data on the importance of U.S.-Asia interactions to individual U.S. states and congressional districts.
Time for Justice, Cambodia
Weekly Cambodian TV reports (with English subtitles) and written trial monitor summaries about the proceedings in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
2012 EWC International Media Conference
June 22-24 2012 in Seoul, Theme: "Networked News: How New Media is Shaping Stories in Asia and the Pacific"
AsiaPacificEd Crossings
An online resource for K-12 students and educators to explore and connect with the Asia Pacific region.