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The East-West Center community has been saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Lee-Jay Cho on October 31. During his 30 years at the Center, Dr. Cho served in a number of positions, including Director of the Population Institute, Vice-President for...
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U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on“The Chinese View of Strategic Competition with the United States” Testimony on Panel 2: U.S.-China Competition and Cooperation on the World Stage by Satu Limaye, PhD1 June 24,...
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HONOLULU (June 18, 2020) -- The East-West Center community has been saddened to learn of the recent death of distinguished environmental health researcher Kirk R. Smith, who passed away on June 15 following a stroke. (Read obituaries in The Daily...
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A Message from the President of the East-West Center Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his 1964 speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, said: “I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of...
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HONOLULU (October 22, 2019) -- The East-West Center community has been saddened to learn of the passing on October 20 of former Dean of Students and longtime Center supporter Sumi Makey. Generations of EWC alumni carry warm memories of Sumi as a...
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Photos courtesy Kunda Dixit. HONOLULU (Aug. 28, 2019) -- Journalism students from Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi and the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi met recently in Nepal for a two-day dialogue about cross-border...
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Photo: Jimmy Forrest / Honolulu Magazine HONOLULU (July 23, 2019) -- The East-West Center community was saddened by the passing on July 14 of former EWC Vice President Wesley T. Park, who was in his eighties. A well-known Honolulu business leader...
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On May 14, 1960, US President Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the act of Congress that established the East-West Center as a place “where scholars and students in various fields from the nations of the East and West may study, give and receive...
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In early 2017, staff from the East-West Center’s Asia Pacific Leadership Program partnered with the U.S. Army to help provide instruction for the Army’s Young Alaka‘i leadership development initiative, which prepares high-potential mid-career...
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HONOLULU (July 5, 2017) -- The East-West Center played host to several women's leadership programs in the last week of June, bringing together participants from around the world to meet and collaborate on issues of women's advancement and equality....
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With millions of people who live in “peri-urban” areas at the edges of cities in Asia suffering from enormous deficits in basic urban services, spillover environmental impacts and weak local governments, policymakers in the region recognize the...
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Leadership fellows from the 2016-17 cohort of East-West Center’s Asia-Pacific Leadership Program, spent a week recently volunteering their technical assistance for the Parinaama Development Foundation in India's Odisha state. GISTer Mourng Kagna...
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Name in the News New Head of the East-West Center Returns to Hawaii By Maureen O’ConnellThe Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Jan. 27, 2017 When Richard R. Vuylsteke left his post as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong to become the...
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The East-West Center, in partnership with Yale University and the Pacific Basin Research Center, launched the new book The Evolution of Development Thinking: Governance, Economics, Assistance, and Security at the United Nations on December 15, 2016...
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Remarks of East-West Center President Charles E. Morrison Friends of the East-West Center Annual MeetingNov. 9, 2016 Thank you Puongpun, for a generous introduction. I also want to thank the Friends of the East-West Center for inviting me to speak...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 4, 2016) -- In the Philippines Supreme Court’s recent ruling that the nation’s new Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the United States is constitutional, the court cited the policy brief “Implications of the...
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Honolulu (October 12, 2015) – Wyatt Gordon, a current EWC degree fellow in in urban and regional planning, recently returned from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he competed in Pidato Antarabangsa Bahasa Melayu , or International Malay Language Speech...
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HONOLULU (Aug. 3, 2015) -- With the Hawaiian Voyaging Canoe Hokule‘a now sailing out of the Pacific for the very first time and currently in Bali, Indonesia, for the canoe’s only scheduled Asian stop on its unprecedented worldwide voyage, a number...
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HONOLULU (July 21, 2015) -- The East-West Center has received a second Green Business Award from the state of Hawai‘i, which recognizes organizations for outstanding effort in improving their environmental footprint. In 2011, the Center became the...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 25, 2015) – Nine college students from the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste who are studying in Hawai‘i on East-West Center-administered scholarships are wrapping up six-week internships in Washington, D.C. designed to offer...