http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia The Asia Institute is a consortium of Asia-focused research centers and programs at UCLA en-us ℗ & © 2009 UCLA Asia Institute. UCLA International Institute. University of California Regents. Higher Education http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/images/asia-institute-logo-sm.gif http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/ 52 200 About 700 UC students withdrew from school in 1942 when they and approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were sent to internment camps. UCLA will award honorary degrees this spring.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=112901Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:45:19 PDTRick Miller, a graduate student in Geography, spent the year studying settled nomads and Mongolian language in Ulaanbaatarhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=112724Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:55:23 PDTThe coming three years may be the best chance for mainland Chinese and Taiwanese leaders to settle their differences, says former Taiwanese Foreign Minister Hung-mao Tien.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=112360Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:15:01 PDTSomaly Mam, founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation goes into detail about her personal experiences as a survivor of forced prostitution for Daily Bruin Radio. Somaly urges students to visit her website somaly.org in order to read testimonials, look at pictures and learn how to save lives.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=112289Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:21:48 PDTLectures, Colloquia, and an Open House!http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=112189Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:27:45 PDTShoichi Iwasaki reports on a four-year collaborative project of international Linguistics researchershttp://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=112176Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:28:38 PDTCurrent installation at the Fowler Museum highlights fresh flavors of an ancient brew, reports The Daily Bruin.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=112146Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:47:01 PDTYu In-Chon, South Korea's minister of culture, sports and tourism, met Tuesday with UCLA Korean studies faculty members and Nicholas Entrikin, the vice provost for international studies. Yu, a well-known former actor, heard from CKS Director John Duncan and Professors Burglind Jungmann, Sung Deuk Oak, Lisa Kim Davis and Dong-suk Kim about their current research and thanked them for building an excellent Korean studies program at UCLA.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=111952Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:46:08 PDTMayumi Manabe will teach a course in literature, deliver a lecture for the Terasaki Center's colloquium series, and work on turning her dissertation about working-class women in interwar literature into a book.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=111773Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:35:10 PDTRobert Buswell, who once dropped out of college to become a monk in Asia, directs the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=111771Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:23:36 PDTBroadway Elementary School (Venice, California) to open a Mandarin Academyhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=111639Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:37:15 PDTCall for Proposals for scholars who wish to use the Gordon W. Prange Collection at UCLAhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=111417Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:25:45 PDTThe Southeast Asian language courses will be teleconferenced to UCLA from U.C. Berkeley as part of a foreign language initiative and distance-learning partnership.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=111356Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:30:20 PDTWhen Brent Luvaas spent 1996-97 in Indonesia as an exchange student from UC Santa Cruz, Yogyakarta had only "one coffee shop inside this exclusive little mall, and the only people who went there were rich, and they were the only ones with cell phones."http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=110038Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:49:10 PDTFor 30 years Lothar von Falkenhausen has observed changes in China over two very different time scales, one of them measured in millennia.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=110020Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:36:03 PDT