un Center for Global Partnership Helps Fund New EWC Journalism Seminar on Disaster Management & Resiliency By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:52:10 +0000 Journalists from Pacific Plate countries invited to apply by March 12 HONOLULU (March 5, 2012) – The Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership has awarded the East-West Center close to $100,000 to conduct a journalism seminar focusing on disaster management and resiliency. Journalists from Japan, the U.S., China and other countries bordering the seismically active Pacific tectonic plate are invited to apply by the March 12 deadline. Click here for more information. Full Article
un Google, KT, Hyundai, Korea Foundation and University of Hong Kong Join Sponsors of East-West Center’s 2012 International Media Conference By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 31 May 2012 01:15:31 +0000 HONOLULU (May 30, 2012) – Internet information leader Google, telecom provider KT, auto manufacturer Hyundai, international relations insitution the Korea Foundation and the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre have joined the growing list of corporate and foundation sponsors of the East-West Center’s 2012 International Media Conference, scheduled for June 22-24 in Seoul, South Korea. The conference theme is “Networked News: How New Media is Shaping Stories in Asia and the Pacific.” Full Article
un Summer Institute on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Underway in Singapore By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:15:11 +0000 The 5th annual Summer Institute in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights will take place from 16 to 26 July 2012 in Singapore and focus on the topic of business and human rights. The Summer Institute is a regionally based workshop held in partnership with organizations in Southeast Asia to consider key IHL and human rights issues, past and present, facing the region. Established in 2008 by the Asian International Justice Initiative, a collaborative project between the East-West Center and the War Crimes Studies Center, the Summer Institute is designed for participants working across a broad range of fields and disciplines within the Asia Pacific region or whose work has an Asia Pacific focus. Previous Summer Institute sessions have attracted lawyers, journalists, government officials, and NGO workers from more than 15 countries. Full Article
un East-West Center Awarded $173,000 to Study Communication of Climate Information in the Pacific By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:01:27 +0000 HONOLULU (Oct. 11, 2012) -- The East-West Center has been awarded $173,000 in funding to study how key climate information spreads across different sectors and countries in the Pacific islands region.With $148,000 in funding from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and $25,000 from the Department of Interior’s Pacific Islands Climate Science Center, researchers will use the upcoming release of a major Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment report as springboard for collecting data to analyze the flow of climate and fresh water information in Hawai‘i and the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands.By tracking information flows, key hubs and isolated groups using network analysis and statistical methods, the researchers plan to map out gaps in the communication and flow of climate information, allowing future projects to focus on areas with less active research and outreach. Full Article
un Young Leaders from Nine Countries Embark on East-West Center Study Tour By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:29:48 +0000 Two-week New Generation Seminar for rising young leaders from the U.S. and Asia Pacific will focus on middle class issues HONOLULU (Oct. 25, 2012) -- Eleven young leaders from nine countries have arrived at the East-West Center to begin this year’s New Generation Seminar. The group will travel together to four different U.S. cities to meet with experts on the seminar theme: “The Making of the Middle Class: Successes of the Past, Challenges for the Future.” After gathering at the EWC in Honolulu for briefings and discussions, the group will travel to Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC for field study. The program is supported by funding from the Freeman Foundation. Participants in this year’s New Generation Seminar include: Full Article
un East-West Center Launches Revamped Asia Matters for America Website By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:33:14 +0000 HONOLULU (Nov. 13, 2012) -- The East-West Center has launched a new, updated website for its interactive Asia Matters for America initiative, which provides an online hub for viewers to explore user-friendly graphical data on the importance of Asia to specific U.S. areas, and vice versa. The revamped AsiaMattersforAmerica.org site now consolidates the broad-based original Asia Matters project with several regional modules focusing more specifically on U.S. interactions with ASEAN, Australia, Japan and Korea. Modules focusing on China, India, and Taiwan are under development, with preliminary information included on this expanded website. Full Article
un ASEAN Teachers and Officials Receive English Training in New Brunei-U.S. Enrichment Initiative By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:58:21 +0000 HONOLULU (Nov 15, 2012) – More than 50 teacher-trainers, officials and diplomats from nine Association of Southeast Asian Nations member countries have arrived at the East-West Center for a month of intensive English-language education training as part of the new Brunei-U.S. English Language Enrichment Program for ASEAN. Full Article
un Future Leaders of the Pacific Conference Underway in American Samoa By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:25:30 +0000 HONOLULU (Feb. 4, 2013) –The East-West Center, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State and the Government of American Samoa, is currently hosting a Future Leaders of the Pacific conference in Pago Pago to address critical issues facing the Pacific Islands region. The February 4-7 gathering has convened about 25 young professionals from across Oceania, along with regional leaders and academic specialists, to focus on trends, issues, and opportunities for collective regional action. Full Article
un East-West Center Awarded $424,000 for Gates Foundation-Funded Project on Economic Potential By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 09 May 2013 01:17:45 +0000 HONOLULU (May 8, 2013) – The East-West Center has received a grant of $423,975 from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health as part of a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on “Realizing the Demographic Dividend for Africa.” Full Article
un Health Experts Meet at EWC on Environmental Risks in Vulnerable Communities By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:51:20 +0000 HONOLULU (Sept. 24, 2013) -- Distinguished health experts from around the world are gathered this week at the East-West Center in Hawai‘i for the 15th International Conference of the Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health. Keynote speakers include Superfund Research Program Director William Suk of the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol of Thailand, a professor of chemistry who will speak on potential health impacts of exposure to environmental pollutants in children. Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol of Thailand speaks on the impacts of environmental pollutants on children's health.Major themes of the Sept. 24-27 conference include: Full Article
un East-West Center Receives USAID Grant to Promote Dialogue and Understanding About the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 01:35:06 +0000 HONOLULU (Oct. 31, 2013) -- The East-West Center has received funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote public understanding and dialogue about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia through the continuation of activities to monitor, analyze, and disseminate information about the tribunal proceedings. Full Article
un Youth Leadership Exchange Participants from Burma Awarded Funds for Mandalay Environment Project By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 02:19:20 +0000 HONOLULU (Dec. 3, 2013) -- Five high school students and one teacher from Burma who were recent participants in the Southeast Asia Youth Leadership Program at the East-West Center have won a grant of $7,000 in a project proposal competition sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, which funds the SEAYLP program. The EWC program alumni received their award for a proposal to educate the public in the city of Mandalay about environmental issues – with a special focus on outreach to adolescents – and to decrease the amount of litter in the community through clean-ups and placement of recycling bins. Full Article
un East-West Center Awarded $750,000 for NASA-Funded Project on Changing Land Use in Southeast Asia By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 02:04:42 +0000 HONOLULU (Feb 11, 2014) – The East-West Center has been awarded a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study land-cover and land-use change in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Over the past half-century these countries have witnessed a major shift from subsistence agrarian economies to commercialized agriculture and, in the case of Thailand and Vietnam, industrialized societies. The project will study transitions in forests, boom crops and urban areas using remote sensing data sources and socioeconomic databases for the 2000-2012 period. The project’s aim is to enhance the conceptual underpinnings of land change science by integrating aspects of global markets, land use and political ecology to explicitly link land changes to local, national and international drivers. Full Article
un EWC and US-ASEAN Business Council Launch 'ASEAN Matters for America" Online Tool and Publication By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:46:25 +0000 WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 10, 2014) – At an event on Capitol Hill yesterday, the US-ASEAN Business Council and the East West Center launched a new “ASEAN Matters for America” publication and online tool that outlines the essential role ASEAN plays in American economic prosperity. Senate East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Ben Cardin and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce spoke at the launch event, which also included a discussion panel with leaders from the Southeast Asia business, media, analysis and diplomatic communities. Full Article
un East-West Center Announces 2014 Japan Studies Fellows By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 23 May 2014 20:12:28 +0000 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) May 23 -The East-West Center has announced the appointment of three 2014 Japan Studies Fellows at the East-West Center in Washington. The fellowship provides residence of three or six months to scholars and analysts who wish to undertake policy-relevant research and writing on key issues of relevance to the U.S.-Japan partnership, including in the diplomatic, politico-security, economic, social and international fields. Mary McCarthy is currently an Associate Professor at Drake University. She will conduct research on “Identity Through Historical Memory: The ‘Comfort Women’ Issue in U.S.-Japan Relations.” Full Article
un East-West Center Announces 2014 Asia Studies Fellows By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:36:16 +0000 WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 9, 2014) -- The East-West Center has announced the appointment of four 2014 Asia Studies Fellows at the East-West Center in Washington. The fellowship provides residence of three or six months at the East-West Center in Washington to scholars and analysts who wish to undertake policy-relevant research and writing on key issues of relevance to the U.S.-Asia relationship, including in the diplomatic, politico-security, economic, social and international fields. Mendee Jargalsaikhan is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. He will conduct research on “The U.S.-Mongolia's Comprehensive Partnership: How to Maintain Momentum.” Full Article
un Keethe Koyanagi, Shelley Wilson Selected as New Co-Chairs of East-West Center Foundation Board By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:51:26 +0000 Fundraising Board Also Welcomes Three New Members HONOLULU (Aug.19, 2014) – The Board of Directors of the East-West Center Foundation - the Center’s community fundraising arm – has selected members Keethe Koyanagi and Shelley Wilson as the board’s new co-chairs. Koyanagi is senior vice president of the Credit Administration Division at First Hawaiian Bank, and Wilson is president of president of Wilson Homecare. Their one-year term as co-chairs began on Aug. 1. Full Article
un East-West Center Announces Scholarship Partnership with Okinawa Prefecture By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:18:59 +0000 NAHA, OKINAWA (Sept. 20, 2014) – At the East-West Center’s 2014 international alumni conference that concluded yesterday in Naha, Okinawa, Center officials announced a new partnership with the Okinawa Prefecture Government that will continue an established scholarship program that allows several Okinawan students each year to pursue graduate degree or leadership program study at EWC and the University of Hawai‘i. From left: Hidemasu Goya, Robert Nakasone, EWC Adjunct Project Specialist, and Sayaka Sakuma Full Article
un East-West Center Receives $750,000 NASA Grant to Study Changes in Mountain Forests of Nepal By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 23:27:31 +0000 HONOLULU (Jan. 15, 2015) -- The East-West Center has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study changes in the mountain forests of Nepal over the past 25 years. Led by EWC Senior Fellow Jefferson Fox, the project will chart the previously unmapped mountain forests of Nepal’s Middle Hill region using data drawn from Landsat satellite imagery between 2000 and the present. Investigators seek to document a suspected “forest transition” in Nepal, a country whose mountain forests have sustained the lives of much of its population for centuries. The forest transition refers to the recovery of trees and other plant growth in a previously deforested area. Full Article
un East-West Center Awarded $267,000 Grant for U.S.-Japan Grassroots Exchange on Post-Disaster Community Building By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:35:31 +0000 Honolulu (Feb. 12, 2015) -- The East-West Center has been awarded a grant of $267,186 from the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership for a three-year dialogue and travel-exchange program focusing on community participation in long-term recovery after a major disaster. Participants from the cities of Kobe and Kesennuma in Japan, and New Orleans and Galveston in the United States, will share experiences, perspectives, and best practices for increasing citizen input on post-disaster policy and decision-making. Full Article
un East-West Center Announces 2015 Jefferson Fellows By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 00:46:50 +0000 International group of 15 accomplished journalists will travel together to China,the Philippines, Singapore and Hawai‘i to study South China Sea conflicts HONOLULU - (March 19, 2015) -- The East-West Center has announced the selection of 15 accomplished international journalists for its 2015 Jefferson Fellowships travel-study seminar. The journalists from 12 countries and territories will travel together in May to China, the Philippines, Singapore and Hawai‘i to study territorial conflicts, resource issues, environmental concerns and more in the South China Sea. Participants represent a range of top news organizations including the Associated Press, Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, Times of India, Straits Times, Kyodo News and others. Full Article
un East-West Center Community Responds to Nepal Quake By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2015 02:03:43 +0000 Photo by EWC Changing Faces Women's LeadershipSeminar alumna Luna K. C. Ghimire. Full Article
un East-West Center to Oversee $4 Million in NOAA Funding to Help Pacific Communities Cope with Climate Change By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2015 21:59:55 +0000 HONOLULU (May 5, 2015) -- The East-West Center has been awarded funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to continue to serve as the lead institution in the Pacific Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (RISA) program, which is designed to help island and coastal communities cope with the effects of climate change. This is the second full program award the Center has received from NOAA, and marks the program’s transition into a new phase. The $4,099,785 NOAA grant will be shared over a five-year period by a variety of partners in the Pacific RISA program (see list below). The program was established in 2003 and is one of 11 regional RISA programs supported by NOAA across the U.S. The region covered by the Pacific program includes Hawai‘i, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau and American Samoa. Full Article
un EWC in Washington Announces 2015 Asia Studies Fellows By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:49:20 +0000 WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 10, 2015) -- The East-West Center has announced the appointment of six 2015 Asia Studies Fellows at the East-West Center in Washington. The fellowship provides residence of three or six months at the East-West Center in Washington to scholars and analysts who wish to undertake policy-relevant research and writing on topics of relevance to contemporary US-Asia policy, including diplomatic, politico-security, and economic issues. The following fellows will be in three month-residencies between June and December of this year: Full Article
un East-West Center Welcomes New Students From More Than 40 Countries and Territories By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:30:39 +0000 HONOLULU (August 13, 2015) – Nearly 100 student fellows from 40 countries and territories have arrived in Hawaii to participate in East-West Center programs this fall. The new graduate students and leadership program participants join a community of more than 110 continuing EWC participants in a diverse residential community on the East-West Center campus. The new student fellows are participating in the EWC’s Community Building Institute, a two-week intensive activity that introduces the international students to Hawaii’s culture and major issues affecting the Asia Pacific region. Full Article
un Doris Duke Funding Adds U.S., Middle East Arts and Culture Reporters to East-West Center’s U.S.-Islamic Media Program By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:24:27 +0000 Doris Duke's Shangri La estate in Honolulu, now a center for Islamic arts and cultures. Photo: Reese MoriyamaHONOLULU (Aug. 18, 2015) – Thanks to more than $84,000 in funding from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the East-West Center’s 2015 Senior Journalists Seminar, which seeks to improve relations between the U.S. and Muslim regions, will include more Middle Eastern journalists and, for the first time, arts and culture reporters. Full Article
un East-West Center Researchers Receive National Science Foundation Grant for Trade and Innovation Workshop Series By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:36:56 +0000 HONOLULU (Sept. 3, 2015) – The East-West Center has received a $45,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a series of agenda-setting workshops focusing on the impact of Asia Pacific trade agreements on trade and innovation in the region. The East-West Center New Challenges for Trade and Innovation Workshop series, headed by EWC Senior Fellows Dieter Ernst and Michael Plummer, will bring together trade economists and experts on innovation, intellectual property rights, competition law, technical standards, and industrial development from the U.S., Asia and Europe. Full Article
un East-West Center Announces 2016 Jefferson Fellows By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 20:55:55 +0000 International group of 14 accomplished journalists will travel to China, Japan and Hawai‘i to explore the economic future of the Asia-Pacific region. HONOLULU - (March 23, 2016) -- The East-West Center has announced the selection of 14 accomplished international journalists for its 2016 Jefferson Fellowships travel-study seminar. The print and broadcast journalists from 10 countries and territories will travel together in May to China, Japan and Hawai‘i to gain on-the-ground perspectives, deepen knowledge of regional issues and build a professional network of contacts. Participants represent a range of top news organizations including CNN International, National Public Radio, Times of India, Straits Times and others. The selected Jefferson Fellows are: Full Article
un EWC in Washington Announces Visiting Fellows and Scholars for 2016 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:50:56 +0000 WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 27, 2016) -- The East-West Center in Washington has announced the appointment of four international 2016 Asia Studies Fellows, as well as the arrival of two additional visiting scholars. The East West Center in Washington hosts a number of Visiting Fellows and Visiting Scholars each year. “The robust Visiting Fellows program in Washington, D.C. promotes the core missions of the East-West Center—education, research and exchange,” said Satu Limaye, EWC Director in Washington. “The Visiting Fellows give public presentations, cooperate with other institutions and produce outreach and publication outcomes. We welcome the new batch of visiting fellows.” Asia Studies Fellowship Program Full Article
un East-West Center Launches Asia Reacts ‘tracker’ of Asia’s Reactions to the U.S. Presidential Election and Foreign Policy By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 11 May 2016 23:27:05 +0000 WASHINGTON, D.C.(May 11, 2016) - The Asia Matters for America initiative of the East-West Center today launched a new online resource, Asia Reacts, which tracks Asia’s reactions to important developments in U.S.–Asia relations during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The effort will monitor responses of Asian governments, media, and experts. Full Article
un East-West Center Launches Revamped Pacific Islands Report Website By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 01:15:37 +0000 HONOLULU (June 16, 2016) – The Pacific Islands Development Program at the East-West Center has launched a new and improved version of its Pacific Islands Report news website, which provides readers with a free, curated roundup of current news, commentary and analysis from across the Pacific islands. Full Article
un EWC Announces Asia Lecture Program for Congressional Staff By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:01:21 +0000 WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 20, 2016) -- The East-West Center in Washington, cooperating with Sasakawa USA, is launching a new Congressional Staff Program on Asia that provides Capitol Hill staff members with an opportunity to engage U.S. officials and leading experts on a range of contemporary, policy-relevant topics in U.S.-Asia relations. The EWC-Sasakawa USA Congressional Staff Program on Asia is a bipartisan educational certificate program that will cover issues with implications for Congressional consideration and action and for U.S.-Japan relations Full Article
un Doris Duke Foundations Award East-West Center $300,000 Grant to Support U.S.-Islamic Journalist Exchange By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 22:53:39 +0000 HONOLULU (Aug. 8, 2016) – The East-West Center has been awarded a three-year grant totaling $300,000 from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in support of the Center’s Senior Journalists Seminar media exchange program, which seeks to enhance media coverage and elevate the public debate regarding U.S. relations with Muslim majority regions. Full Article
un EWC in Washington Announces Visiting Fellows and Scholars for 2017 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 23:17:23 +0000 WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 6, 2017) -- The East-West Center in Washington has announced the appointment of four 2017 Asia Studies Fellows from across the Asia-Pacific. Selected from a highly competitive process, these scholars will engage the Washington research and policy community over the course of their three-month residencies. The East West Center in Washington hosts a number of Visiting Fellows and Visiting Scholars each year. “The robust Visiting Fellows program in Washington, D.C. promotes the core missions of the East-West Center—education, research and exchange,” says Satu Limaye, EWC Director in Washington. “The Visiting Fellows’ give public presentations, cooperate with other institutions and produce outreach and publication outcomes. We welcome the new batch of visiting fellows.” Full Article
un EWC and US Dept. of State Convene Young Pacific Leaders in Hawai‘i By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:00:21 +0000 HONOLULU (Jan. 16, 2018) -- The East-West Center and United States Department of State are currently conducting a three-day regional conference for young leaders from Pacific Islands nations from January 16 to 18, 2018.The more than 30 delegates are a diverse group of young professionals from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Marshall Islands, Palau, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa, and Hawai’i. They were chosen from a competitive pool of over 700 applicants to participate in the conference. Full Article
un EWC President Vuylsteke Appointed to Hawaii Pacific Export Council By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:58:26 +0000 Full Article
un EWC Announces Rejuvenation Plan for Pacific Islands Development Program By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 04 May 2018 22:07:22 +0000 HONOLULU (May 4, 2018) -- The East-West Center’s Board of Governors has unanimously approved a forward-looking plan to substantially recast and rejuvenate the Center’s longstanding Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP). Full Article
un EWC to Oversee Close to $500,000 in NOAA Funding to Study Climate, Health, and Migration in Pacific Islands By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:10:34 +0000 King tide in Majuro, Marshall Islands. Photo: Pacific RISAHONOLULU (Oct 25, 2018) -- The East-West Center has been awarded funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to support the International Research and Applications Project (IRAP), which is designed to support international, decision-based research on climate-sensitive health risks in partnership with the Pacific Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (RISA) program. Full Article
un Distinguished Alumnus Hao Ping Named President of Prestigious Peking University By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 01:52:27 +0000 HONOLULU (October 31, 2018) -- East-West Center Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Hao Ping, who is also leader of the Center’s Beijing alumni chapter, was recently named president of Peking University, China’s premier institution of higher learning. He previously served as party secretary of the university – often referred to as the “Harvard of China” – as well as a national vice minister of education. Full Article
un East-West Center Launches Updated 'Asia Matters for America' Publications and Website By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 02:15:51 +0000 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-West Center and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, with the support of the US Department of State, launched the East-West Center’s newly updated Asia Matters for America/America Matters for Asia publication, website, and one-page state summaries highlighting the mutual business, diplomatic, security, and cultural engagement between the US and the Indo-Pacific region. Full Article
un EWC Alumni Featured in Forbes’ '30 Under 30' List of Rising Asia Entrepreneurs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:20:12 +0000 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 problems.” Full Article
un Fish Family Foundation Awards EWC $50,000 to Support Women’s Entrepreneurship By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 02:06:43 +0000 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 to enhance women’s leadership skills and entrepreneurial capacity; experientially explore innovative entrepreneurship; build a sense of self-efficacy; and expand national and regional networks. As a result of the Fish Family Foundation’s funding, the Changing Faces Seminar will now be able to include female business or social entrepreneurs from Japan each year until 2024. The funding will also substantially increase the Center’s ability to include mainland and international speakers in the associated #galswithLEI Forum. Full Article
un IHC e-briefing no 12: ACAS launches consultation on draft Discipline and Grievance Code By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2008-05-08 Background The Employment Bill is currently on its passage through Parliament and will, when enacted, have a significant impact on dispute resolution within the employment relationship. It is anticipated that relevant provisions within the Bill wil... Full Article
un HR e-briefing 355 - ACAS launches consultation on draft Discipline and Grievance Code By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2008-05-08 The repeal of the fated statutory dispute resolution procedures moved a step closer last week when ACAS issued, in draft, a revised Code of Practice on Discipline and Grievance for consultation. The Code has been significantly amended and simp... Full Article
un HR e-briefing 417 - unfair dismissal awards to rise with redundancy pay By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2009-06-09 In e-briefings Full Article
un HR e-briefing 429 - employment tribunal statistics for 2008/09 By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2009-10-08 Despite an overall drop in the number of claims last year, statistics for 2008-09 released by the Tribunals Service last week reveal that claim numbers remain high at 151,028 and the majority of claim types rose in that period. The latest statisti... Full Article
un HR e-briefing 442 - tribunals to blow the whistle from April By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2010-01-15 This morning, the Government has clarified its proposals to enable employment tribunals to pass on whistle-blowing allegations, raised in ET1 claim forms, to the relevant regulatory authorities. New powers are to be introduced ... Full Article
un HR e-briefing 527: BIS announcements on collective consultation and protected conversations By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2011-11-23 Today, Vince Cable has announced a number of measures with the stated aim of making “it easier for businesses when taking on, managing and letting go their staff, while also being fair to workers”. As well as announcing further details ... Full Article
un HR e-briefing 536: New Regulations pave the way for Aprils employment tribunal changes By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2012-02-13 Last year the Government announced a number of measures aimed at resolving workplace disputes more quickly, reducing the pressure on the employment tribunal system and saving costs for employers and the taxpayer. In November, amid... Full Article
un UK HR e-brief: Employment Tribunal fees to be introduced next summer By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2012-07-13 Employment Tribunal fees to be introduced next summer The Government has today published its Full Article