000 EWC Awarded $350,000 for New Environmental Stewardship Institute By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:39 +0000 EWC Awarded $350,000 for New Environmental Stewardship Institute HONOLULU (September 17) The East-West Center (EWC) received a grant of $350,000 from the U.S. Department of State to support a new six-week institute on environmental stewardship for undergraduate students from Southeast Asia. The EWC, working in partnership with more than 20 organizations including the University of Hawaii’s Environmental Studies Program, Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Nature Conservancy, will host and facilitate this program in May-June 2009 for approximately 20 students from non-traditional and underserved groups in the region. Full Article
000 NASA Awards East-West Center $826,000 To Assess Environmental Change In Se Asia By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:43 +0000 NASA Awards East-West Center $826,000 To Assess Environmental Change In Southeast Asia HONOLULU (June 16) – The East-West Center (EWC) was awarded a three-year contract from NASA for a projected total of $826,639 to determine the effects of the explosive expansion of rubber cultivation in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia (MMSEA) on regional water and carbon dynamics. "Hydrologic change within this region, which comprises approximately half of Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan Province, could have serious consequences for the approximately 200 million inhabitants of mainland Southeast Asia’s lowlands and for the climate of monsoon Asia,” according to Jefferson Fox , East-West Center Senior Fellow, and member of the team heading up the project. Full Article
000 EWC Awarded $300,000 Grant for U.S.- Indonesian Muslim Teacher Exchange Program By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:33:00 +0000 EWC Awarded $300,000 Grant for U.S.- Indonesian Muslim Teacher Exchange Program Full Article
000 EWC Awarded $970,000 for Timor-Leste and South Pacific Scholarship Programs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:55:05 +0000 HONOLULU (Jan. 6, 2012) -- The East-West Center has received two grants totaling $970,000 from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to support the U.S.- Timor-Leste and U.S.- South Pacific Scholarship Programs over a five year period. These programs aim to develop a corps of leaders who will contribute to political, economic and social development in their home countries and strengthen relations with the United States. “By investing in tertiary education through initiatives like these, the United States is helping to foster prosperity, good governance, the rule of law, journalistic freedom, and human rights in the Asia Pacific region,” said Terance Bigalke, EWC’s Director of Education. Full Article
000 EWC Awarded $281,000 for New Japan Studies Fellowship Program By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:38:55 +0000 Applications Now Open for Research Fellowships in Washington, D.C. HONOLULU (Jan. 18, 2012) -- The East-West Center has received an initial grant of $93,858 from the Center for Global Partnership at the Japan Foundation – renewable over three years for a total of approximately $281,574 – to support the EWC’s new Japan Studies Fellowship Program. The program will provide three- or six-month research fellowships for scholars and analysts from the United States and Japan to conduct policy-relevant research on issues related to the U.S.-Japan partnership, including economic, diplomatic, politico-security, social, and international topics. Full Article
000 EWC Receives $458,000 to Improve HIV Estimation and Projection Tools By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 04 May 2012 23:55:11 +0000 HONOLULU (May 4, 2012) – The East-West Center (EWC) has been awarded a contract for $458,276 from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to provide technical and financial support for the development and refinement of HIV/AIDS Incidence Estimation in the Spectrum software under the guidance of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV/AIDS Estimates, Modeling and Projection. Spectrum is a suite of policy models that provide policymakers with analytical tools to support decision making processes. Full Article
000 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
000 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
000 East-West Center Receives $108,000 for Projects on Local Governance and Natural Disasters By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 23 May 2013 02:32:14 +0000 HONOLULU (May 22, 2013) -- The East-West Center has received $108,000 from the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy to study how local governance mechanisms can be enhanced to address natural disasters more effectively. The ICLD grant of $108,000 will fund a collaborative research project to be conducted with partner institutions in Bangladesh and China, with EWC Senior Fellow G. Shabbir Cheema as Principal Investigator. Full Article
000 EWC Receives More Than $940,000 in Research Grants By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:29:23 +0000 HONOLULU (Aug. 28, 2013) -- The East-West Center has received a total of $941,440 in grants for research on environmental and economic issues affecting the Asia Pacific region. The awards include: Full Article
000 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
000 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
000 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
000 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
000 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
000 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
000 Sao Paulo state with 41,000 Covid-19 cases extends stay-at-home measures By en.mercopress.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:56:00 GMT The governor of Sao Paulo, the Brazilian state at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America, said on Friday he was extending stay-at-home measures until May 31, ignoring opposition from far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Full Article Politics Brazil
000 Lagos coronavirus cases may reach 120,000 by August — State Govt By nigerianpilot.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:31:29 +0000 Confirmed cases of coronavirus in Lagos may reach 120,000 at the peak of the pandemic between July and August, the state government has said. The Commissioner of Health in the state, Akin Abayomi, said on Friday that the state is likely to record between 90,000 and 120,000 cases during that period. Mr Abayomi said this […] The post Lagos coronavirus cases may reach 120,000 by August — State Govt appeared first on Nigerian Pilot News. Full Article News
000 Over 200 000 DStv subscribers sign petition demanding lower premiums By Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 08:20:00 GMT DStv has come under fire from subscribers demanding a decrease in their monthly instalments due to the lack of live sport for broadcast. Full Article
000 Ramaphosa authorises parole for 19 000 prisoners to tackle coronavirus spread By Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:02:00 GMT President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the parole of selected low-risk prisoners to alleviate pressure at correctional services facilities amid the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article
000 Gov't to Create 200,000 Jobs in Healthcare Sector by 2022 By english.hankyung.com Published On :: 2017-08-28 06:38 The government will create 200,000 new jobs in the healthcare sector by 2022. Vice-Minister of Health Kwon Deok-cheol said on August 25 in a healthcare industry jobs discussion sponsored by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute and the Korea Economic Daily that the government plans to create 168,000 public sector jobs and 32,000 private sector jobs within five years from now. As for the public sector, he explained, the government will expand jobs in nursing and elderly care, as well... Full Article
000 Russia's New Coronavirus Cases Top 10,000 For Sixth Straight Day By www.rferl.org Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:26:09 +0000 Russia registered more than 10,000 new coronavirus cases for the sixth day in a row -- an indication the spread of the virus inside the country remains serious despite a stringent lockdown-- as the Communist party leader called for the release of non-violent criminals from prison . Full Article Russia News Russia
000 COVID-19: New Cases In Russia Top 10,000 For Seventh Straight Day By www.rferl.org Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 08:11:10 +0000 The global death toll from the coronavirus is more than 275,000 with almost 4 million infections confirmed, causing mass disruptions as governments continue to try to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness. Full Article News News Belarus Kyrgyzstan Picks
000 Afrique: 190.000 personnes pourraient mourir de la pand�mie By article.wn.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:33 GMT Sur la base d'une mod�lisation, l'Oms estime que 190.000 personnes pourraient perdre la vie � cause du coronavirus qui infectera entre 29 � 44 millions d'Africains. ...... Full Article
000 Over 14,000 coronavirus cases in Ukraine By article.wn.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:47 GMT (MENAFN)The health ministry of Ukraine said that 14,195 total coronavirus cases have been reported in Ukraine on Friday as the number of r... ...... Full Article
000 Number of people infected with coronavirus in Iran surpasses 105,000 By article.wn.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:47 GMT (MENAFN - Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 9 By Elnur Baghishov - Trend: As many as 1,529 people have been infected with the coronavirus (COVI... ...... Full Article
000 2,000 bars shut in Seoul as 18 new coronavirus cases linked to one man By article.wn.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:53 GMT More than 2,100 nightclubs, hostess bars and discos in South Korea's capital have been shut after 18 new coronavirus cases - with all but one linked to a 29-year-old man. ...... Full Article
000 Afghan Government Releases 1,000 Taliban Members - Security Council By article.wn.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:50 GMT KABUL (Sputnik) - The Afghan government... Full Article
000 Amid Covid-19, Trump wants to give Green Cards to 40,000 foreign doctors, nurses - Livemint By news.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:45:21 GMT Amid Covid-19, Trump wants to give Green Cards to 40,000 foreign doctors, nurses LivemintLegislation introduced in US to give Green Cards to foreign nurses, doctors Economic TimesAmerican lawmakers introduce legislation in Congress to offer green cards to foreign doctors, nurses Top Live NewsLegislation introduced in U.S. Congress to give Green Cards to foreign nurses and doctors TodaynewspaperCOVID-19: Legislation introduced in Congress to give Green Card to 40,000 foreign nurses, doctors The Tribune IndiaView Full coverage on Google News Full Article
000 Handwritten 'Hey Jude' lyrics sell for $910,000 By www.hurriyetdailynews.com Published On :: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 08:39:16 Z A sheet of paper bearing Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics to "Hey Jude" sold for $910,000 in an online auction held on April 10 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' historic split. Full Article Arts & Life
000 Coronavirus death toll reaches 3,584 as recoveries exceed 78,000 By www.hurriyetdailynews.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:38:00 Z Turkey's confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 2,253 in the past 24 hours, and 64 more people have died, taking the death toll to 3,584, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on May 6. Full Article Turkey
000 Zimbabwe: Registrar-General Gets $10 000 Bail By allafrica.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 07:10:32 GMT [The Herald] Registrar-General Clement Masango yesterday denied any wrongdoing during his bail application before Harare regional magistrate Mrs Bianca Makwande. Full Article
000 Coronavirus death toll passes 275,000 worldwide By www.rte.ie Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 10:40:35 +0000 Follow all the latest developments regarding Covid-19, around the world and at home, as they happen. Full Article Coronavirus
000 More than 360,000 coronavirus cases in Middle East By www.jpost.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:20:02 GMT The low reporting in some countries and civil conflicts across the region mean that the number of cases is continually undercounted. Full Article Iran Turkey Middle East Coronavirus Coronavirus Live Updates
000 More Than 12,000 Lawyers In Iran Reject Move To Dismantle Bar Association By www.payvand.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 09:10:08 PDT More than 12,000 Iranian lawyers have protested to a draft bill that undermines their independence and in effect replaces the Iranian Bar Association with a group of judiciary officials appointed by the government. Based on the draft the Judiciary will form a new body named the ";Supreme Council for the Coordination of Lawyers' Affairs"; that will be based at the Judiciary branch of the government ";to coordinate matters relating to attorneys."; Full Article
000 360,000 wheat bags recovered from godowns By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 06:00:00 +0500 HAFIZABAD: The district administration and the PASSCO officers along with Special Branch police on Friday recovered 360,000 wheat bags from various godowns.The teams recovered the wheat bags from the areas of Kassoke, Vanike Tarar, Kaleke, Sukheke and Jalalpur Bhattian and sealed the... Full Article
000 KP police arrest over 10,000 drug peddlers in four months By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 06:00:00 +0500 PESHAWAR: On the directives of Inspector General of Police Sanaullah Abbasi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police have intensified actions against drug peddlers and arrested 10,741 in the last four months.Besides, the force has eradicated poppy crop on 104 acres, says a press release. During the special... Full Article
000 Coronavirus latest: UN warns of ‘tsunami of hate’; new Russia cases top 10,000 for sixth day; nightclub cluster in South Korea By www.scmp.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 01:18:12 +0800 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday said the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scaremongering” and appealed for “an all-out effort to end hate speech globally”.The UN chief said “anti-foreigner sentiment has surged online and in the streets, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have spread, and Covid-19-related anti-Muslim attacks have occurred”. Migrants and refugees “have been vilified as a source of the virus – and then denied… Full Article
000 Kindergarten comes up short: Capacity up to 3 year olds is 20,000 shy By praguemonitor.com Published On :: Prague Daily Monitor The Ministry of Labor has prepared and made available to the public a study showing that the Czech Republic is not doing enough for kindergarten capacity according to EU norms. Pre-school care thus is not available to three in ten girls and boys up to the age of three years old, which parents need. read more Full Article
000 High winds cause an estimated 50,000 trees to fall in Šumava Park By praguemonitor.com Published On :: Prague Daily Monitor The high winds from the "orkan" of the past few days have caused an estimated 50,000 trees to fall in the Šumava National Park. The exact count of the damage to the park is still being calculated by park rangers. read more Full Article
000 My 11,000 tilapia and catfish side hustle By www.nation.co.ke Published On :: 2020-05-08T21:35:00Z Enos Odongo is a building contractor, but on the side, he runs a fish farm as he seeks to cash in on rising demand for the produce Full Article
000 With classes set to resume, Hong Kong’s 27,000 cross-border pupils face commuting problems over quarantine rules By www.scmp.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:28:44 +0800 The fate of some 27,000 Hong Kong cross-border pupils living in mainland China was in limbo, as the education minister said on Friday that it could not be guaranteed whether they would be exempted from quarantine rules amid the coronavirus pandemic when classes resumed in late May.Although Hong Kong’s government last week decided to exempt these cross-border students from a 14-day mandatory quarantine period when entering the city, a similar rule had so far not been lifted by the Shenzhen… Full Article
000 Coronavirus deaths top 30,000 in the US By www.smh.com.au Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:02:57 GMT Despite the spike in deaths, there were tentative signs in some parts of the country that the outbreak was beginning to ebb. Full Article
000 Coronavirus deaths in the US top 45,000, doubling in a week By www.smh.com.au Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:55:04 GMT New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan each reported their highest single-day coronavirus-related death tolls on Tuesday - over 800 between the three states. Full Article
000 Farhan Akhtar donates over 1,000 PPE kits to hospitals all over India amid pandemic By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:01:49 +0500 Farhan Akhtar recently won the hearts of fans as a result of his generous donation to hospitals in India Full Article
000 'At least 90,000 healthcare workers infected by COVID-19', says nursing group By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 22:07:19 +0200 1 Full Article
000 Over 19,000 artefacts seized in international art trafficking crackdown, says Europol By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 19:16:55 +0200 1 Full Article
000 Worldwide Covid-19 toll crosses 274,000 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 06:00:00 +0500 ISLAMABAD: At least 274,625 people have died of the novel coronavirus since the epidemic surfaced in China late last year, according to international media reports.There have been more than 3,984,488... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Full Article
000 360,000 wheat bags recovered from godowns By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 06:00:00 +0500 HAFIZABAD: The district administration and the PASSCO officers along with Special Branch police on Friday recovered 360,000 wheat bags from various godowns. The teams recovered the wheat bags from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Full Article
000 700,000 credit payment holidays granted By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 06:00:00 +0500 LONDON: Nearly 700,000 payment holidays on credit cards have been granted as part of stop-gap measures to support borrowers whose finances have been affected by the coronavirus.Lenders have also provided almost 470,000 payment freezes on personal loans, according to the figures for the period up... Full Article
