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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

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They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

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This is true for most of Asia where the problem is becoming critical. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. Asia is also a good news-bad news story.

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Philanthropy and policing

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When we began talking with our field offices in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, it became apparent that, as difficult as it was to prosecute police in the U.S., I remember visiting a university in Brazil where a police reform course was being taught with a classroom of students and police officers.