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Asia 21 Alumni Series: Energy is Everything

It's all about the stories on the ground: the farmer whose incomes double as 24/7 lighting allows him to thresh twice the harvest, the fish trader who plans to invest in cold storage to preserve his catch & command higher margins.
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Asia 21 Alumni Series: What keeps me up at night five years after Typhoon Yolanda?

What keeps me up at night are not the criticisms of how slow the reconstruction was nor how messed up the emergency response coordination was, but the nagging question of “what could I have done better, if I had a do-over?”
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Asia 21 Alumni Series: On Agriculture

The Philippines has rich land, natural resources, hardworking farmers and agri-research institutions. The country is blessed with so many resources, however, agriculture, the backbone of the country's economy, has not been prioritized.
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Asia 21 Alumni Series: Will Social Enterprises Create the New Middle Class?

Despite economic gains in the recent years and public-private campaigns towards job creation and entrepreneurship, many working Filipinos remain in poverty due to low quality jobs that don’t pay enough to meet basic needs.
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Finally Having the Conversation

Asia Society Philippines joined in the movement of raising awareness for mental health by developing an Asia Society Conversations program around it, named “Why Can’t We Talk About It?”
Business in Mindanao | 17 October 2018 | Asian Institute of Management
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Mindanao as the Land of Promise and Potential

Fuller hall saw a hundred people fill its seats once again on October 17, 2018 to hear what the government, and industry and policy experts had to say about economic realities in the southern island.
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How Our Roots Grow

Asia Society Conversations returned on October 10 at PenBrothers in Legazpi Village, bringing together representatives from government, civil society , and industry to break down political, cultural, and economic dimensions of the context of Filipino IPs over beer and pizza.
Learning To Be Safe With Our Online Practices
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Learning To Be Safe With Our Online Practices

It was a night of informative casual conversations about digital marketing, information consumption, and data security on 31 July during Asia Society Conversations: Internet Survival Guide.
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What We Talk About When We Talk Culture

Asia Society Conversations returned on 23 May to ask “Why Care About Culture?” Students, young professionals, and people from various sectors gathered to hear from a diverse group of panelists who have worked in multicultural environments: Amina Rasul, Dr. Alfredo Robles, Norberto “Peewee” Roldan, and Lester Estrada.
In Memoriam: A Message from Asia Society Philippines on Sheila Platt

In Memoriam: A Message from Asia Society Philippines on Sheila Platt (1936-2018)

SHEILA M. PLATT, wife of former Ambassador to the Philippines Nicholas Platt, passed away peacefully at surrounded by her family on May 15, 2018, at home in New York City.