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China
Barriers to Women in Business
The UN estimates that the Asia-Pacific economy would earn $89 billion every year if women were able to achieve their full economic potential. Economically empowering women builds better educated, healthier...
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The Asia Foundation's Environment Programs
The Asia Foundation's Environment programs support Asian initiatives to ensure the sustainability of the natural environment and resources as fundamental to Asia's development and future well-being. The Asia...
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The Asia Foundation in China
China's economic transformation presents challenges both for the country's rapidly changing society and for the government, which has undertaken reforms to promote the rule of law, curb pollution, and encourage...
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The Lotus Circle 2012
The Lotus Circle is a community of committed individuals working together to empower girls and women across Asia through The Asia Foundation's Women's Empowerment Program. For more than half a century, The Asia...
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Books for Asia Event Honors Publishers and Supporters in New York
On March 29, 2012, The Asia Foundation's Books for Asia honored its partners at The Power of a Book reception in New York. Publishers, donors, Asian government representatives, and executives from the...
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Advancing Women in Asia
The phrase "gender equality as smart economics" has become the mantra of such women leaders as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet. While some of Asia's economies...
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2011 Lotus Circle Leadership Awards Luncheon
On June 8, 2011, The Asia Foundation and The Lotus Circle honored Dr. David Ho at the first annual Lotus Leadership Awards Luncheon in New York City for his contributions to the health and well-being of Chinese...
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Partnering for Change: Dr. David Ho
Dr. David Ho is the Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Irene Diamond Professor at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Ho's pioneering research on...
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Yang - Books for Asia China
A slideshow about The Asia Foundation's Books for Asia program, featuring Yang of China.
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Portraits of Leadership: Women Changing the Face of Asia
Mohna Ansari, the first Muslim female attorney in Nepal; Dr. Sohn Bong-Scuk, a member of the Korean National Assembly; and Huang Shumei, leader of Legal Service Center of the Guangdong Women's Federation in China.
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