Current EWC News Releases
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HONOLULU (Oct. 27, 2020) -- Higher temperatures, stronger typhoons, coral reef loss, and coastal flooding are among the major challenges detailed in a new report on climate change in the Republic of Palau. Threatened resources include low-lying...
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WASHINGTON, DC (Oct. 16, 2020) – The East-West Center, in partnership with the US Department of State and the Mekong-US Partnership, hosted the Indo-Pacific Virtual Conference on Strengthening Governance of Transboundary Rivers on Thursday,...
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HONOLULU (Sept. 21, 2019) – Jillian Bonnardeaux, a 14-year veteran of the US Foreign Service with a focus on public diplomacy, has joined the East-West Center as Diplomat in Residence. She will be posted at the Center through June 2021. Prior to her...
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HONOLULU (Sept. 2, 2020) -- The East-West Center has been awarded funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the US Department of State to serve as the lead institution in the Pacific Regional Integrated Science and...
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HONOLULU (Aug. 11, 2020) -- Dr. Tim Brown, an internationally renowned epidemic tracking expert at the East-West Center, has a stark message for Hawai‘i residents. “If you're thinking of going out to eat, don’t,” Brown warns. “If you think you're...
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HONOLULU (July 29, 2020) -- The Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center has partnered with the Asian Development Bank to support the Development Research for Oceania Pipeline, a new pilot project that aims to deepen the pool of...
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HONOLULU (July 14, 2020) -- The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies in partnership with the East-West Center have been awarded a million-dollar grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for programming related to the "...
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HONOLULU (April 30, 2020) – Hawai‘i Governor David Ige has appointed former Governor John Waihe‘e III and communications executive Lynn Miyahira to three-year terms as members of the East-West Center’s Board of Governors. They succeed outgoing Board...
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HONOLULU (Feb 25, 2020) -- The East-West Center has rolled out a major update of its affiliated Pacific Islands Development Program, or PIDP, with the launch yesterday of the program’s new website at PIDP.EastWestCenter.org. The new site highlights...
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HONOLULU (Feb. 7, 2020) – The East-West Center has been awarded a five-year grant totaling $50,000 from the Fish Family Foundation in support of the Center’s Changing Faces Women’s Leadership Seminar and #galswithLEI Forum, which collectively seek...
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Delegations from the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palauhelp chart course for a new era of the Pacific Islands Development Program From left: Minister in Assistance to the President of the Republic of theMarshall Islands,...
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HONOLULU (June 13, 2019) -- East-West Center alumnus David R. Stilwell was confirmed by 94-3 vote of the U.S. Senate today as the new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Stilwell, a retired Air Force Brigadier...
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HONOLULU (May 30, 2019) -- The East-West Center is pleased to welcome Ambassador Karena Lyons, the former New Zealand Ambassador to the nations of Micronesia and Consul General for Hawai‘i, as the Center’s new Vice President, Executive Director of...
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HONOLULU (May 16, 2019) – The East-West Center offers deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of internationally famed architect I.M. Pei, who passed away today at age 102. Pei designed a number of the East-West Center’s original buildings...
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HONOLULU (April 10, 2019) -- Several former participants in East-West Center programs have been featured in recent editions of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list for young entrepreneurs in Asia who are “leveraging business tools to solve the region's...
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HONOLULU (Feb. 3, 2020) -- The East-West Center has again been ranked #4 in a University of Pennsylvania institute’s 2019 list of best government-affiliated think tanks worldwide, the same ranking the Center received in last year’s list. It is...
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Previous scholarship recipients from throughout the Pacific mark the program's 25th year with a conference on professional opportunities FIJI (Dec. 10, 2018) – Over this past weekend, 29 alumni from the US South Pacific Scholarship Program (USSP)...
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HONOLULU (November 23, 2018) – Strained freshwater supplies, damaged and compromised coastal infrastructure, coral reef death, and greater stresses on native biodiversity and species are among the major concerns and challenges detailed in the Hawai‘...
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Launch Event on Sidelines of Last Week's East Asia Summit in Singapore Marks 'Asia Matters' Data Initiative's 10th Anniversary SINGAPORE (November 20, 2018) – At a conference on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Singapore last week, the East-...
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HONOLULU (Nov. 19, 2018) -- East-West Center researchers Abby Frazier and Keith Bettinger are among the authors of a new study published today in Nature Climate Change that provides one of the most comprehensive assessments yet of how humanity is...