The U.S. Agency for International Development/Asia today announced a new initiative to combat illegal wildlife trade between Asia and Africa.
A team of U.S.-supported international specialists has recently completed an eight month installation of a new state-of-the-art disaster monitoring and response system for ASEAN at the Jakarta-based ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre). The installation was supported by the U.S. Government-funded ASEAN-U.S. Technical Assistance and Training Facility.
![USAID Asia Mission Director Michael Yates and Thailand International Development Cooperation Director-General Piroon Laismit sign Memorandum of Understanding. USAID Asia Mission Director Michael Yates and Thailand International Development Cooperation Director-General Piroon Laismit sig](https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/pressreleases/MOU%20Thai%20devt%20agency.jpg?itok=4WzsZRaR)
U.S. Agency for International Development/Asia Mission Director Michael Yates and Thailand International Development Cooperation Agency Director General Piroon Laismit pledged to increase their collaboration on development in Asia today by signing an historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at a public ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
![U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Kristie A. Kenney, USAID Regional Mission for Asia Director Michael Yates, and KMUTT Vice President Bundit Thipakorn present the awards to Students with Solutions 2012 Winner "Team Optimo" and Popular Vote Winner "Team Vana" U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Kristie A. Kenney, USAID Regional Mission for Asia Director Michael Yates, and KMUTT Vice President](https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/pressreleases/thai%20student%20group%20wins%20mobile%20app%20contest.jpg?itok=IUyHczrY)
A group of five first-year Thai engineering students won the USAID/Asia Students with Solutions 2012 Mobile App Contest, which challenged Thai university students to create mobile apps to help solve development issues. The historic flooding in Thailand in 2011 inspired the winning group, Team Optimo from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, to design an application aimed at providing real-time data on water levels by using a smart phone’s built-in capability for high-quality photos, GPS, and 3G connection.
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing three new programs to help Thai authorities and first responders prepare for and manage future emergencies.
The United States is launching a new program to help strengthen the regional organization’s ability to ensure food security for its 600 million citizens.
The United States, building on the strong support for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that President Obama reaffirmed at the ASEAN-United States Leaders Meeting earlier this month, is launching a new program to help strengthen the regional organization’s ability to ensure food security for its 600 million citizens.
A new era of faster and more efficient trade among ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) nations moved one step closer to reality early this month, when ASEAN officials agreed to launch a pilot project to test a regional system that could dramatically reduce the time needed to process import and export documents, potentially saving businesses and consumers in Southeast Asia millions of dollars.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a new five-year project to FHI 360 to combat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in the Greater Mekong Region.
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