Speaking to the EWC International Media Conference in New Delhi, Indian Foreign Secretary Dr. S. Jaishankar said India’s increasing ties to the East has potential to transform the Asian landscape
On Aug. 31, Obama addressed Pacific Island leaders, environmental philanthropists, Conservation Congress officials and local dignitaries on his expansion of the NW Hawaiian Islands marine monument.
The Board has selected Dr. Richard R. Vuylsteke, an EWC alumnus with extensive experience throughout the region, as the Center’s next president. He is expected to begin in early 2017.
The Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) has launched its new website at PIRCA.org. The website provides a wealth of information and resources about climate change in Hawai‘i and the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI), making it easier to access the 2012 PIRCA Report, Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts and its findings. ...More...
Speaking to some 350 journalists and media professionals gathered this week at the 2016 East-West Center International Media Conference in New Delhi, Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi delivered a call to action on child slavery and trafficking, saying, “The main thing is, do something.” Watch video of his address. ...More...
The East-West Center in Washington will hold the first session of the EWC-Sasakawa USA Congressional Staff Program on Asia (CSPA), this week on Capitol Hill. This bipartisan educational certificate program for Congressional staff members will cover a range of contemporary, policy-relevant topics in U.S.-Asia relations over a series of weekly sessions ...more...
Student fellows from 38 countries and territories have arrived in Hawai‘i to participate in East-West Center programs this fall. The new graduate students and leadership program participants join more than 100 continuing participants in a diverse residential community on the East-West Center campus. (View a photo gallery of the Aloha Ceremony welcoming the new participants.) ...more...
