Following a recent high-level dialogue on smart city development, experts from Microsoft, MasterCard and Singapore discussed how smart technologies are fundamentally changing the dynamics of urban life, while also creating new tensions in areas such as personal privacy, social equity and justice. Watch video of the panel.

Researchers Kaspar Hurni and Jefferson Fox write that in the last 50 years, mountainous regions of Southeast Asia have witnessed a dramatic expansion of commercialized agriculture at the expense of the region’s native forests. ...more...

At the EWC international alumni conference in Seoul at the end of August, new US Ambassador to Korea Harry Harris and the ambassadors of Australia, Japan and Singapore discussed varied national views on the impact, challenges and opportunites of globalization versus a more regional approach. Watch video of their panel.

In an Aug. 23 keynote address at the 2018 East-West Center alumni conference in Seoul, JoongAng media and Korea Peace Foundation Chairman Dr. Seok-Hyun Hong discussed what it will take for the Korean peninsula to transition toward peace.  ...more...

In an excerpt from his keynote address at the 2018 EWC alumni conference in Seoul, former Korean Finance Minister (and EWC Board of Governors member) Il SaKong identifies key reforms he believes are needed for Korea to maintain a competitive edge amid the sweeping technological changes of the '4th industrial revolution." ...more...

Following years of population decline, three-fourths of Hawai‘i’s reef fish species are now considered seriously depleted. Now, for the first time, researchers have compiled an estimate of the total annual catch. ...more...