Release Date:	8/27/2004

Training Program on the Global Gas Market

The 2nd Senior Journalists Seminar

14th New Generation Seminar

Vietnam Urban Planning Workshop

2004 Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships Program

Building the Foundation Program

3rd Building the Foundation Leadership Training Seminar for Pacific Island Disaster Managers Disaster Reduction for Sustainable Island Development: Building Safer and More Sustainable Communities

Islam in Asia Planning Workshop

Pacific Regional Climate and Health Workshop

Writing Workshop on Spatial Information Technology and Society

Regulation and Telecommunications Market Development in China

Fall 2004 Jefferson Fellowships

Asia Pacific Executive Forum

Japan-U.S. Journalists’ Exchange

EWC Washington

In the Arts . . .
Exhibition: Monkeys: Myth, Magic, and Mischief in the Arts of Asia

LOOKING AHEAD . . .

Training Program on the Global Gas Market
East-West Center
July 14- September 15
This training program combines language training at the University of Hawai‘i HELP program with two weekly seminars that examine the global gas market in detail, with an emphasis on the Asia Pacific region. The overall focus of the program will be on:
1. World gas industry overview
2. Future changes in the world gas industry
3. Discussion of ideas related to the development of the Korea gas industry

EWC contact: Gayle Sueda (808) 944-7560
email: suedag@EastWestCenter.org

The 2nd Senior Journalists Seminar
Washington (DC), Atlanta (GA), and Los Angeles (CA)
August 21–September 5
Participants will include Asian journalists from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. A group of U.S. journalists will join their Asian colleagues in Washington for a colloquium on professional challenges in addressing issues of concern to Asian countries with substantial Muslim populations and the United States.

The Seminar is a follow-up to the 1st Senior Journalists’ Seminar which took place at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, September 16-19, 2003.

EWC contact: Dennis Donahue, (808) 944-7192
email: donahued@EastWestCenter.org

14th New Generation Seminar
Honolulu/U.S. Mainland
August 29–September 12
Each year the Center invites rising young leaders from the United States and the Asia Pacific region to participate in a two-week educational and dialogue program. The program is developed around a thematic focus and provides participants with an opportunity to strengthen their understanding of regional developments and challenges, increase their contacts with counterparts in the region, and become more effective and international leaders. The program opens with a one-week seminar in Honolulu followed by a one-week study tour.
More information>>>

EWC contact: Ann Hartman (808) 944-7384
email: Seminars@EastWestCenter.org

Vietnam Urban Planning Workshop
East-West Center, Burns Hall 2012
August 30-September 10
The Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa in cooperation with the East-West Center is bringing to Hawaii 12 Vietnamese scholars and practitioners in urban planning-related fields to participate in an intensive course on Urban Planning and Design. This year’s focus is on public space and the urban transition in Asia. This event is the first of a series for the coming years that will also create an ongoing network in Vietnam of scholar-practitioners trained in the use of social science and spatial frameworks tools to aid in urban policy formulation and planning practice.

EWC contact: June Kuramoto (808) 944-7267
email: kuramotj@EastWestCenter.org
Coordinators: Peter Xenos, Senior Fellow, EWC and C. Michael Douglass, Director of GRC, UH

2004 Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships Program
EWC, China, and Hong Kong
September 7-22
The Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships Program, cosponsored by the Better Hong Kong Foundation and the East-West Center, is a short-term professional program for senior print and broadcast journalists from U.S. news media organizations, to promote better public understanding in the U.S. about the diversity and complexity of commercial, cultural, and political issues in Hong Kong and mainland China.

The program includes a two-day China seminar at the EWC and a study tour to Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong, where the Fellows will meet with business executives, scholars, journalists, political leaders, and government officials in each of these four cities.

EWC contact: Marilyn Li (808) 944-7258
email: lim@EastWestCenter.org

Building the Foundation Program
The Warwick Hotel, Fiji
September 17-24
Follow-up workshop on Disaster Management for Pacific Island Water Managers (in conjunction with the Pacific Water Authority Annual General Meeting and the Annual Session of the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) Governing Council in Fiji).

EWC contact: Meril Dobrin-Fujiki
email: fujikim@EastWestCenter.org

3rd Building the Foundation Leadership Training Seminar for Pacific Island Disaster Managers Disaster Reduction for Sustainable Island Development: Building Safer and More Sustainable Communities
East-West Center
October 18-29
Participants will include Directors of National Disaster Management Offices from 22 island nations throughout the Pacific region. Cosponsored by EWC’s Pacific Disaster Center and SOPAC.

EWC contact: Meril Dobrin-Fujiki
email: fujikim@EastWestCenter.org

Islam in Asia Planning Workshop
Singapore
September 23-24
A planning workshop to develop a multi-year research project on trends in Islam in Asia. The project's broad purpose is to provide a base-line study of issues in contemporary Islam in Asia of interest to both the Islamic and the non-Islamic worlds. It is a collaborative project involving an international team of researchers, and it will deal with a broad range of political, social, economic, and cultural issues.

The first of three anticipated project volumes will cover Southeast, with subsequent volumes on South and East Asia, respectively.

The project is directed by Charles E. Morrison, president of the East-West Center and Muthiah Alagappa, director of East-West Center Washington, with assistance from John Esposito and John Voll of the Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding of Georgetown University. The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies of Singapore is helping organize and host the workshop. Participation by invitation.

EWC contact: Richard W. Baker (808) 944-7371
email: bakerr@EastWestCenter.org

Pacific Regional Climate and Health Workshop
Nandi, Fiji
September 23-25
The Fiji School of Medicine, the Fiji Meteorological Service, the East-West Center and the University of Hawaii are holding a dissemination workshop, which is the culmination of a research project on climate variability and change and human health in Fiji. This is a follow up to a region-wide study carried out several years ago.

The workshop is aimed at increasing awareness of the application of forecast information, predominately of the El Nino phenomenon, in the Pacific and the relevance of climate forecasts for public health. Another important objective is to identify countries that favor assistance in increasing their capacity to interpret and use seasonal to inter-annual climate forecast information in the public health sector.

Participants will discuss the current use of climate information in the public health sector, the most important climate-sensitive diseases affecting their country, and how the incidence of those diseases increases or decreases seasonally, during ENSO events, and during droughts and floods. These patterns of disease and the influence of climate on these patterns will be the main focus of the two-day workshop. Presentations will be made on the current and future availability of forecast information in the region.

EWC contact: Eugene Alexander (808) 944-7332
email: AlexandE@EastWestCenter.org
Additional EWC contacts: Nancy Davis Lewis

Writing Workshop on Spatial Information Technology and Society
East-West Center
September 27-October 8
Team members from the project on Spatial Information Technology and Society will discuss the results of their work and write case study reports. The team previously met in a June 2003 workshop to design projects which they implemented in their home areas.

EWC contact: June Kuramoto (808) 944-7267
email: KuramotJ@EastWestCenter.org
Additional EWC contacts: Jefferson M. Fox and Peter Hershock

Regulation and Telecommunications Market Development in China
Washington D.C.
September 28-30, 2004
This meeting will bring about a dialogue of leading policy thinkers from China with senior experts from the U.S. to exchange views on policy challenges that arise in the telecommunications and information sector at a time of fundamental changes in technology, competition, market structure and regulation.

EWC coordinators: Nancy D. Lewis, Meheroo Jussawalla and Mark Borthwick
EWC contact: Carolyn Eguchi (808) 944-7510
email: eguchic@EastWestCenter.org
Additional EWC conctact: Richard Taylor

Fall 2004 Jefferson Fellowships
October 10-November 6
The Fall 2004 Jefferson Fellowships is a program of professional dialogue, study and travel for mid-level print and broadcast journalists from the United States, Asia and the Pacific. The program begins at the East-West Center in Honolulu and will continue with a study tour to Washington (DC); Boston, Massachusetts; Austin, Texas; and Los Angeles, California. During the study tour, the Jefferson Fellows will travel together and share their experiences and insights as they look cross-culturally at the United States and its election process. The program will conclude in Los Angeles. More information>>>

EWC contact: Ann Hartman (808)944-7384, email: Seminars@EastWestCenter.org

Asia Pacific Executive Forum
New Orleans, Louisiana and Houston, Texas
October 18-22
The Asia Pacific Executive Forum (APEF) brings together executives, community leaders and East-West Center experts for dialogue on critical issues facing the region and how they impact economics and business. This year APEF luncheon programs are being held in New Orleans, Louisiana (cosponsored by the World Affairs Council of New Orleans) and Houston, Texas (cosponsored by the Asia Society). Featured speakers at these events will be Charles E. Morrison, EWC president, Fereidun Fesharaki, senior fellow in the Energy Group, and Chrisopher McNally, fellow in the Politics, Governance and Security area.

EWC contact: Abigail Sines (808) 944-7368
email: sinesa@EastWestCenter.org

Japan-U.S. Journalists’ Exchange
EWC, U.S. mainland
October 27–Nov. 10
The East-West Center and the Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (NSK-Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association) in Tokyo sponsor the annual Japan-United States Journalists' Exchange.

Six Japanese journalists will visit the United States for a study tour that will include Seattle, Detroit, and Washington D.C. Following the study tour, the journalists meet at the East-West Center to report on their experiences and to exchange opinions on journalistic and news coverage issues in Japan and the United States. The program was developed to enhance the quality and quantity of media reporting through specific focus on upper mid-level and senior "gatekeepers". The theme of this program is the U.S. Presidential Election.

EWC contacts: Dennis Donahue (808) 944-7192
email: donahued@eastwestcenter.org
and Marilyn Li (808) 944-7258, email: lim@eastwestcenter.org

EWC Washington

September 20, 2004: Congressional Study Group on Asian Security.

Arrival of East-West Center Washington Southeast Asia Fellows 2004 Participants:

Merlyna Lim from Indonesia, Award Dates: 9/8/04-12/8/04

Herman Craft from Philippines, Award Dates: 9/1/04-11/29/04

Evelyn Goh from Singapore, Award Dates: 9/9/04-12/17/04
(Sessions are by invitation only)

For more information, please email Washington@EastWestCenter.org

In the Arts . . .

Exhibition: Monkeys: Myth, Magic, and Mischief in the Arts of Asia
July 16 - September 30, 2004

Monkeys hold deep meaning for the peoples of South, East, and Southeast Asia. Artists throughout Asia have created diverse monkey images and have delighted viewers and audiences with monkey arts, stories and performances. In order to understand and appreciate both the wide variety and the unifying nature of the monkey in Asian arts, the East-West Center will exhibit paintings and prints on paper, canvas, and glass; carvings and sculpture from wood, stone, and metal; puppets and masks from dance and theater; and toys and miniatures. Viewers will see works created or inspired by the cultures of Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. Most of the items were created in the 19th and 20th centuries although many are based upon much older prototypes and iconography. Some masks and puppets were created by artisans in their seventies, while one Chinese brush painting was painted by a child prodigy.

The year 2004 is being celebrated as the Year of the Monkey by millions of people throughout East Asia.

Exhibition Performance II: Monkeys: Myth, Magic, and Mischief in the Arts of Asia
September 12, 2004
EWC Gallery
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
For the whole family
Performance-demonstration of Indonesian mask dance, with Patricia Dunn and Matthew Dunn
Admission free

For information on group tours, please contact Pattie Dunn, arts outreach assistant, 944-7584
email: dunnp@EastWestCenter.org

For further information on the EWC Gallery, contact Dr. Michael Schuster, 944-7543
email: schustem@EastWestCenter.org

This exhibition is made possible by generous support from the Hawaii Pacific Rim Society, the Jackie Chan Foundation USA, the Arthur Goodfriend Fund, and generous contributors to the EWC Foundation.

Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday noon-4 p.m. Closed Saturdays and holidays. Admission is free. Visitor parking on the adjacent UH campus is $3 and is usually easily available on the upper campus after 4 p.m. weekdays; Sunday parking is normally free and ample.

LOOKING AHEAD . . .
2004

November 1–6
Fall 2004 Jefferson Fellowships (EWC, U.S. mainland, Asia)
(CONTINUED from October)

November 1–6 (tentative)
Workshop on U.S. Military in Asia, Seoul, Korea
EWC contact: Sheila Smith
email: smiths@EastWestCenter.org

2006

November (dates to be determined)
EWC/EWCA 2006 International Alumni Conference
Hanoi, Vietnam
EWC contact: Gordon Ring, email: ringg@EastWestCenter.org