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...Rajawali Foundation Institute will consolidate and endow work already done under the Asia Program of the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Both new programs will continue to operate under the leadership of the Ash Center, according to Julian P. Chang, the newly appointed executive director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute...
...It’s a testament to the vision and the forward thinking of a lot of people in Indonesia that...despite all the political problems, despite all the natural disasters and other crises, there are people thinking about how to move the country forward politically," Chang said...
...Center’s ongoing work in Vietnam encouraged the donation, according to Chang. After reading reports on socioeconomic development from the Ash Center’s Vietnam Program, Peter Sondakh—the billionaire owner and director of the Rajawali Corporation—had approached the Kennedy School to perform a similar competitive analysis of Indonesia. The initial report that Sondakh requested will be completed by the end of the month...
...would Pyongyang make such a change? As usual, parsing the reasons the North Korean government does anything is murky business. But Pyongyang watchers in Seoul believe the crackdown comes for two main reasons. First, there has been a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots in North Korea, partly due to the prevalence of relatively free markets, says Cheong Seong-chang, senior fellow at the Sejong Institute, a think tank in Seoul. Since 2000, the bigger traders in North Korea have come to live a life "almost as lavish as South Koreans," says Cheong. "They have big refrigerators...
...office of Chang-Diaz said that this bill would not lead to a state-wide mandate for preferred parking spaces. Rather, it would provide city and town municipalities the option of creating preferred parking spaces if they see the need. Costs for implementing the program would fall to the municipality setting them...