Latest NewsEast-West Center Awarded $992,000 for Timor-Leste and South Pacific Scholarship ProgramsHONOLULU (Nov. 18) -- The East-West Center (EWC) received two grants of $496,000 from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to support the U.S.- Timor-Leste (USTL) and U.S.- South Pacific (USSP) Scholarship Programs. . . more . . . East-West Center Honors Distinguished Alumni HONOLULU (Nov. 14) – As part of its biennial alumni conference, being held this year in Bali, Indonesia, the East-West Center honored several alumni at a luncheon today for their outstanding personal accomplishments and service toward the Center’s mission of helping to promote better relations and understanding among the peoples of Asia, the Pacific and the United States...more... Opening Speeches From EWC Conference in Bali
HONOLULU (Nov. 13) – The EWC/EWCA 2008 International Conference got underway yesterday in Bali, Indonesia, with welcoming remarks by the Governor of Bali, the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and the Indonesian Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare, followed by the conference’s keynote address by East-West Center President Charles E. Morrison...more... |
Spotlight on Seminars
Hong Kong Journalism Fellows Explore Post-Olympics ChinaTo gain a first hand experience of the aftermath and long-range impact of the Beijing Olympics, seven leading U.S. journalists ventured to China and Hong Kong as part of the East-West Center’s 2008 Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships held in late September. The study-tour, co-sponsored with the Better Hong Kong Foundation and established in 1996, was developed to foster a deeper public understanding in the U.S. of the complex political, economic, social, and cultural issues currently impacting China and Hong Kong. Following a China seminar at the Center in Honolulu, the participants traveled to Beijing, Shangri-La, Kunming, and Hong Kong, where they engaged in candid dialogue with leaders in government, business, and research, as well as their journalism colleagues, students, and local families. Highlights of the tour included visits to the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube of the 2008 Beijing Olympics Village, the Gedan Songzanlin Lamasery in Shangri-La, and Pudacuo National Park, and meetings with the chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the first elected chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. . . more . . . FEATURED PUBLICATIONSby Wilmar Salim and Kiran Sagoo (eds.) The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia by Muthiah Alagappa (ed.) Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu (eds.) East-West Views Blog
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