In this weekly digest of Business and Policy topics, meet the directors of PBS and WETA's new documentary 'Asian Americans,' hear from CNN's Van Jones on racial unity, and more.
Dr. Lynn Bufka, Senior Director of Practice Research and Policy at the American Psychological Association, discussed the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on society's collective mental health.
The 2020 winner of the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism in Asia discussed his reporting from China, from which he was expelled in March.
Watch the webcast with Jessica diCarlo, who has studied the Lao-China railway and Special Economic Zones in Northern Laos to showcase how infrastructures relate to on-the-ground political and social relations in host countries.
North Korea has long resisted foreign influence, aggressively guarding its borders, and ruthlessly controlling information coming in and out of the country. But have they managed to keep their country free from the coronavirus?
Last 7 May 2020, Asia Society Philippines and McKinsey & Company hosted an online discussion, with over 160 people tuned in, on “The Imperative of Our Time: Safeguarding our Lives and Livelihoods and the Return to the Next Normal”
This panel discussion explores the power of interethnic coalitions that brought together Asian American, African American, Latinx, and Native American cohorts to mobilize during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
