Happy holidays to all East-West Center alumni, associates, faculty, staff and friends!

Where: In front of the EWC’s John Burns Hall, 1601 East-West Rd. (corner of Dole and East-West Road).

When: December 3, 2009 – December 4, 2009

What: The East-West Center (EWC) will host its annual Holiday Craft Fair on December 3 and 4 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm in front of the EWC’s John Burns Hall, 1601 East-West Road (corner of Dole Street and East-West Road).

Limited parking is available on the lawn next to Burns Hall for $4.00.  Items for sale at the fair include Asia-Pacific handicrafts, home-made stationary, hand-crafted jewelry and glassware, koa boxes, Bonsai trees, Kokeshi dolls, ceramics, local snacks, and more.

Nineteen vendors will have various gift items for sale – plus popcorn, food and beverages for purchase from A.J.’s Espresso.

For more information call Paul Meyer or Itsuko Suzuki at the East-West Center Associates Office at (808) 944-7388.

Links

• Visit the EWC Alumni website
• Visit the EWC/EWCA 50th Anniversary International conference website

Designed by noted landscape architect, Kenzo Ogata, the East-West Center Japanese garden, which adjoins Imin Center-Jefferson Hall, was completed in November of 1963 and formally presented to the Center by Taizo Ishizaka, president of the Federation of Economic Organizations of Tokyo. During a trip to Hawai’i in 1964, Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko of Japan blessed the garden during a traditional hold and release ceremony of koi (a gift from the Hawai’i Goldfish and Carp Association) into the garden stream.

Since the early days of the East-West Center,  the Japanese Garden has been one of the common places where students meet soon after returning from their respective academic departments at the University of Hawai’i. The main attraction of the Japanese Garden are the colorful fish that swim around the garden’s pond. The water’s calm surface is often ruffled by the colorful carp, symbol of valor because it fights its way upstream with persistence.

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Links:

• Download the format at the EWCPA Cook Book Blog
• E-mail recipes to ewcacookbook@gmail.com

Dr. Chia Siow Yue of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, and Dr. Michael G. Plummer (RSI 88, 89; IEP 95; VPRE 96; Wash 07; USAPC 08) of the East-West Center conducted the first comprehensive study of the potential of the ASEAN Economic Community along with a group of researchers from the region. The study was undertaken at the request of the ASEAN Secretariat and prepared through the ASEAN-US Technical Assistance and Training Facility, a joint program of the U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of State.

At the ASEAN-US Leaders Meeting, Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of ASEAN, presented a copy of "Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community" to President Barack Obama.

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This fall the EWCA Tokyo Chapter welcomed two distinguished leaders of other EWCA chapters, namely South Korea and Thailand.

On October 16th, Dr. Song Young-Sun, member of the National Assembly of Korea met with Mr. Mr. Takashi Tsuchiya, President of the EWCA Tokyo Chapter. Dr. Song Young-Sun is a former classmate of EWC President Dr. Charles Morrison.

Dr. Song Young-Sun (l) and Mr. Takashi Tsuchiya (r)

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Source: East-West Center’s News Center

HONOLULU (Nov. 14) – President Barack Obama’s selection of Honolulu as the site for the annual APEC Leaders Meeting in November 2011 means that Hawai‘i will both open the U.S. year of hosting APEC with an agenda-setting conference, as well as close the year with the huge Ministerial and Leaders meetings.

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Congratulations!!

November 2009 Winners of the
EWCA Email Update Drive drawing:

$50 Amazon.com Gift Card – Hidefumi Kinoshita – Japan

$50 Amazon.com Gift Card – Shan Feng (PI 98, Assoc 07) – China

$50 Amazon.com Gift Card – Kiran Kumar Bhattarai (TDI 75-77) – Nepal

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The Asian International Justice Initiative
a collaboration between
the University of California Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center and the East-West Center
in partnership with
the (Komnas HAM)
is pleased to announce
THE 3RD ANNUAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
“Internal Conflicts in the Asia Pacific Region”
Monday, May 10 – Saturday, May 22, 2010
Bali / Aceh, Indonesia

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