sa EWC Board Elects Puongpun Sananikone as New Chairman By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:42 +0000 EWC Board Elects Puongpun Sananikone as New Chairman International development economist and business executive is an alumnus and longtime supporter of the Center HONOLULU (July 11, 2008) – Members of the East-West Center’s Board of Governors have elected international development economist Puongpun Sananikone to serve as the board’s new chairman. At a meeting today, the board named Sananikone to succeed Roland Lagareta, who became the board’s vice-chairman. In addition, the board reappointed member Il SaKong, a former South Korea minister of finance and currently a leading economic advisor to President Lee Myung-bak, to a third term on the board. SaKong’s new term will extend until October 2011. Full Article
sa 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
sa Royal Sala Thai Dedication By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:48 +0000 Royal Sala Thai Dedication Photos from the Royal Sala Thai dedication on March 1, 2008. Click to enlarge. Full Article
sa Negroponte to Address USAPC By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:32:48 +0000 Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte to Address U.S.-Asia Pacific Issues at April 11 Conference For Immediate Release Media Contact: Barbara Wanner Phone: (808) 202-327-9761 Email: wannerb@eastwestcenter.org Full Article
sa PTC Honors Jussawalla with Named Award By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:33:06 +0000 PTC Honors Jussawalla with Named Award HONOLULU (April 16) – Meheroo Jussawalla, East-West Center senior fellow emerita, was recently honored by the Honolulu-based Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC). The international non-government group has created a new award in her name, the Meheroo Jussawalla Research Paper Prize. Full Article
sa Elegant ‘Sala’ Opens Door to Thailand at EWC Exhibition By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:33:09 +0000 Elegant ‘Sala’ Opens Door to Thailand at EWC Exhibition Release Date: 2/14/2007 Full Article
sa 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
sa EWC Alumna Shari Villarosa Confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius and Seychelles By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:18:54 +0000 HONOLULU (Oct. 4, 2012) – Former East-West Center Diplomat-in-Residence Sharon (“Shari”) Villarosa has been confirmed as the new U.S. Ambassador to the Indian Ocean island nations of Mauritius and the Seychelles. Villarosa was nominated to the post by President Obama last fall and confirmed by the Senate on Sept. 22. Villarosa said at her confirmation hearing that she would work “to increase U.S. exports to (Mauritius’) healthy, thriving market economy,” and to “encourage Seychelles' continued progress in implementing sound political and economic reforms and protecting human rights. … I hope that we can continue to support the efforts of Seychelles to counter piracy and promote better security in East Africa and the Indian Ocean.” Full Article
sa Ambassadors’ Dialogue on Cultivating the U.S.-Korea Global Partnership By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:58:14 +0000 Free public seminar at the East-West Center on Fri. Oct. 26 will feature Korea’s Ambassador to the U.S. Y.J. Choi and U.S. Ambassador to Korea Sung Kim U.S. Ambassador to Korea Sung Kim and Korea’s Ambassador to the U.S. Y.J. Choi will present a special Ambassadors’ Dialogue on key issues impacting the U.S.-Korea alliance, Fri. Oct. 26, 4:30 – 6 p.m. at the East-west Center’s Imin International Center – Jefferson Hall (across from Kennedy Theatre). The event is open to the public and free of charge. Paid parking is available on the UH Manoa campus. Full Article
sa Revamped Pacific RISA Website Features Integrated Climate Knowledge for Hawai‘i and Pacific Islands By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:55:03 +0000 HONOLULU (Nov. 29, 2012) -- The Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments program (Pacific RISA) has launched an updated, interactive website as a focal point for the current state of climate knowledge about Hawai‘i and the U.S-Affiliated Pacific Islands. The improved site at PacificRISA.org serves as a hub of interactive media, publications, and tools produced by researchers at the East-West Center, the University of Hawai‘i, and other partner organizations. Users can explore current knowledge about climate change from Pacific RISA’s interdisciplinary work in areas such as climate projections, hydrological modeling, disaster risk assessment, and legal and policy analysis. Full Article
sa 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
sa 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
sa 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
sa 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
sa 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
sa 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
sa New Pacific RISA ‘Documoment’ Video Focuses on Climate Change Impacts ‘From Ridge to Reef’ on Maui By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 02:36:56 +0000 HONOLULU (July 14, 2017) – Researchers with the Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (Pacific RISA) program housed at the East-West Center have released the latest in a series of “Climate Matters” ‘documoment’ videos. The new seven-minute video, titled “Climate Matters for Ridge to Reef Ecosystems,” focuses on climate change impacts in West Maui forest watersheds and reef ecosystems. The video features interviews with two Pacific RISA stakeholders from the Maui Future Climate Scenarios project, each representing part of the ridge-to-reef climate and ecosystem connection. Full Article
sa East-West Center Welcomes Ambassador Karena Lyons as New Vice President By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 31 May 2019 03:30:22 +0000 HONOLULU (May 30, 2019) -- The East-West Center is pleased to welcome Ambassador Karena Lyons, the former New Zealand Ambassador to the nations of Micronesia and Consul General for Hawai‘i, as the Center’s new Vice President, Executive Director of Research, and Director (designate) of the Pacific Islands Development Program. Full Article
sa 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
sa HR e-briefing 421 - dismissal by letter By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2009-07-14 You have written a dismissal letter and can now relax in the knowledge that what was an unpleasant experience for all concerned is concluded. Or can you? When does the employment end? Is it the date you wrote the letter, the date it is posted, the d... Full Article
sa HR e-briefing 441 - Maximum compensatory award reduced for 2010 By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2009-12-17 The Government has today announced, just as predicted, a fall in RPI-linked compensation limits. The maximum compensatory award for unfair dismissal will decrease from £66,200 to £65,300 for effective dates ... Full Article
sa 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
sa Coronavirus Does the Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate and the Department of Employment and Labour have the power to issue Compliance Instructions, Force Majeure, and Covid-19 as an Occupational Disease? By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-03-25 On 17 March 2020, we sent out an e-Brief: Occupational Health and Safety: COVID-19 (click here to access this e-brief) where we discussed the responsibilities which are placed on employers in terms... Full Article
sa Education Briefing - Next step for the mutualisation agenda By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2015-06-25 With the dust settling after the recent General Election, it is possible to better speculate as to the likely direction of travel of the new Conservative government. The new administration has a slim majority, therefore, there still may be an elemen... Full Article
sa Eversheds Sutherland webinar offering guidance on how a virus is spread and what health and safety precautions to take during the pandemic - 15 April 2020 By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-04-15 Are you comfortable with latest government guidelines on working in a pandemic? Are you enforcing social distancing? In a sea of fake news do you understand how Coronavirus is actually spread and what is safe and unsafe?... Full Article
sa IP commercialisation for education institutions - webinar By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-04-29 In this webinar for education institutions we will cover:... Full Article
sa Eversheds Sutherland EHS and Employment clinic webinar - When does a pandemic crisis spell disaster? By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-05-04 The world is in turmoil. Rumour, fake news and wild assertions form part of our daily information overload. How are good organisations communicating with their employees, suppliers and stakeholders? Reputations will be made and lost during this cris... Full Article
sa Health & safety summer school 2020 - hot topics and theatre By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-10-09 Prosecutions are down. There is no new safety law, and Brexit should not make much difference, but employers cannot drop their guard when it comes to the health and safety of people. ... Full Article
sa IHC HR e-briefing 117 - Disability discrimination: in preserving the status quo, the Court of Appeal takes a radical leap! By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2010-07-30 The Court of Appeal has approved the application of the House of Lords decision in the case of London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm [2008] IRLR 700 to employment-related cases. See our previous HR e-briefing 366 for further information. In many res... Full Article
sa Lawbite: Court of Appeal saves defective statutory notices By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-03-09 Nigel Crighton Pease v Jeffrey William Carter and Louise Mary Carter [2020] EWCA Civ 175 A recent Court of Appeal decision found that notices of proceedings for possession under s.8 of the Housing Act 1988 were valid despite an error in a key date ... Full Article
sa What do pension schemes need to say about ESG, climate change and stewardship? By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-06-17 Trustees and providers of pension schemes face ever increasing and changing legal duties to have policies on and disclose how they deal with stewardship and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. This article pulls the new rules together... Full Article
sa Safety Considerations: Premises Closure By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-04-07 Overview for owners and occupiers 1. Introduction 1.1. In the current climate many businesses are faced with the difficult decision as to whether they can continue with their operations at this unprecedented time; none more so than those who operate... Full Article
sa Coronavirus - Podcast series: Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) team address questions about COVID19 - UK By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-05-05 Episode 4 - COVID-19 webinar - When does a pandemic crisis spell disaster? - May 4 Listen to the replay of Eversheds Sutherland's episode 4 podcast providing guidance on at what stage does the pandemic crisis spell disaster. Reputations will be ma... Full Article
sa More Bucks than Fizz, the Law Commission's SAR reform report By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-06-18 Zia Ullah, Head of the Firm’s Corporate Crime & Investigations practice, and Ruth Paley, Of Counsel, take a look at the Law Commission’s report into SARs reform published this morning, and consider the implications for the regulated ... Full Article
sa EBA publishes ambitious workplan for 2020, warning that it cannot be a supervisor of supervisors and hinting that further centralisation may be the only way to ensure a truly European approach to AML/CTF By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-10-03 As the European Banking Authority publishes a wide-ranging workplan for 2020, Zia Ullah and Ruth Paley explain the EBA’s role and its forthcoming programme, and take a look at the substance of the developments planned for the next twelve month... Full Article
sa NCA's Annual SARs report By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-11-07 Zia Ullah, Head of the Firm’s Corporate Crime & Investigations practice, and Ruth Paley, Of Counsel, take a look at the NCA’s annual SARs report published yesterday, and consider the key statistics including a huge, but predictable, ... Full Article
sa Ryanair chief says Brexit threat to UK-EU flights increasing By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2017-08-03 ... Full Article
sa An alternative purchase price mechanism for M&A transactions By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-09-12 This article examines an alternative to the two predominant purchase price mechanisms used in M&A transactions in South Africa. When applied correctly, it leads to an expedited determination of the final purchase price and allows for flexibility... Full Article
sa Private Companies in South Africa: Practical and Legal Considerations Concerning Acquisitions and Disposals By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-11-29 Mergers and acquisitions (“M&As”) involving privately held companies in South Africa entail various legal, financial and other issues. Advanced preparation and an understanding of the fundamental practical and legal issues concerned ... Full Article
sa Coronavirus - Managing the health of your M&A transactions - UK By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-03-05 While companies are trying to find ways to ensure health and well-being of their work-force and align those measures with business continuity as usual, it is equally important that deal managers look out for risks associated with the spread of virus... Full Article
sa Coronavirus M&A transactions part 1 Germany By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-03-27 Coronavirus: effect on M&A sales process The implementation of sales processes is currently facing particular challenges: bidders are dropping out, financing can no longer be implemented, the business plans of the targets can no longer be... Full Article
sa Coronavirus M&A transactions part 2 Germany By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-03-27 Coronavirus: withdrawal from the SPA - MAC clauses in the sales contract What is the rule in the USA is rather rare in Germany; so-called Material Adverse Change clauses (or MAC clauses), which grant the buyer a right to withdraw from the purchase... Full Article
sa Indonesia Summons Ambassador over Deaths on Chinese Fishing Boats By www.rfa.org Published On :: 2020-05-07T23:17:35Z The foreign minister asks why the bodies of three Indonesians were thrown overboard. Full Article Story
sa Coronavirus - Accelerated M&A transactions; a guide for sellers and buyers - Global By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-04-07 For companies that are financially stressed or distressed, a sale of the company or its business and assets might be the best exit route for its stakeholders. The desire to exit through a sale is often the preferred method for financial creditors wh... Full Article
sa The FCA bans the promotion of mini-bonds to retail consumers: what does this mean and what does it say about FCA thinking? By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2019-12-03 On 26 November 2019 the FCA announced that it was using its product intervention powers to ban the promotion of so-called “speculative mini bonds” to retail consumers. The ban will come into force on 1 January and will last for 12 months... Full Article
sa Overnight sensation: ISDA publishes new definitions to facilitate transition from EONIA By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-02-17 On Friday 14 February 2020, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) published the ISDA Collateral Agreement Interest Rate Definitions (the “Collateral Rate Definitions”). The Collateral Rate Definit... Full Article
sa Open for business: Proposal for a streamlined UK regime for overseas funds post Brexit By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-03-24 Cross-border fund marketing arrangements into the UK are poised to be significantly amended when the current post-Brexit ‘transition or implementation period’ (“TIP”) comes to an end on 31 December 2020. Retail funds&rs... Full Article
sa Coronavirus - EU Commission guidelines: Is compensation payable when flights are cancelled - EU By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-03-26 Summary of the communication from the EU commissionInterpretative Guidelines on EU Regulation 261/2004 on passenger rights in the context of the developing situation with Covid-19 - 18 March 2020 Right to choose between reimbursement and rerouting ... Full Article
sa Tenants rights of first refusal By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2008-06-10 The Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 grants tenants of flats a right of first refusal if the landlord wishes to dispose of its interest in the whole or part of 'a building'. In a decision that is hugely significant for the increasing numbers of landowne... Full Article
sa Helping you see the bigger picture - EHSsential: environmental, health and safety news (2020 forecast) By www.eversheds.com Published On :: 2020-01-30 HEALTH AND SAFETY In the courts - cameras to broadcast from the Crown Court for the first time The government has announced new legislation which will permit the sentencing remarks of High Court and senior judges in certain criminal cases to be film... Full Article
