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Events this Week
In Seoul, on Monday, July 7, The Asia Foundation organized a public forum on “Development Assistance in Areas of Conflict in Asia: Lessons from the Field”. The forum addressed providing development assistance in conflict areas such as ...
Carlyle Makes Asia Hire
The Carlyle Group has appointed David Balint director of its Asia leveraged finance group, FinanceAsia reported. Mr. Balint will manage Carlyle’s investment strategy in Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Balint joins Carlyle from Australia ...
From the Philippines: Impunity, Apathy, and Human Rights
He is serving as an Intern in Law and Human Rights unit of The Asia Foundation’s Manila office. Over the past year, crackdowns against political opponents in countries like Burma, Kenya, and Zimbabwe shocked the world. ...
China’s Double Game
Reprint permission granted by the author, a Trustee of The Asia Foundation. For information on the book, contact University of California Press. It can be purchased on amazon.com. China’s elite and public opinion leaders have a national ...
North Korea’s Nuclear Disclosures and the Six Party Talks
Scott Snyder is a Senior Associate at The Asia Foundation’s office in Washington, DC. This week in Beijing, the Six Party Talks are set to reconvene after a nine month hiatus. The hiatus began October 3, 2007 with China’s release of a ...
Red Cliff: Woo's Part One Opens in Asia
Part One of John Woo's two-part, four-hour Red Cliff will open in Asia on July 17. Woo and his producer Terence Chang took on the Herculean task of mounting--on their own, with backing from five Asian countries--the $80-million ...
How To: Take Advantage of Technology Markets in Asia
One of the best things about either visiting or working in Asia is getting access to the latest technologies made in Taiwan and Japanese factories. Most gadgets come out these two countries first, sometimes as much as a year before ...
Asia and EurAsia Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MERL ...
Title: Asia and EurAsia Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MERL) Regional Advisor Department: Program, Asia and EurAsia Region Support Network Supervisor: Asia and EurAsia Region Director Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Effective Date: ...
Screening methods: Looking for ligands [announcement]
In Nature China this week - Researchers in Beijing have developed a screening method that can quickly pick out potential antitumour agents from natural plant extracts and more.
Whatever happened to Avian influenza? [research]
Summaries of newsworthy papers include The scare switch, Ebola structure reveals virus camouflage, A bridge from the historical to the contemporary, A handle on human proteins used by H5N1 virus, Could there be water in the Moon?, ...