Bill Dorman
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Asia Minute: Korea’s tourism is breaking records (opens the original)
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Hawaiʻi tourism figures will be out soon for the month of August. Other visitor spots around the Asia Pacific are sharing their own recent numbers, which include some disappointments — and some records. Tourism has been booming this year in South Korea. The government says more than 15 million travelers visited South Korea in the first eight months of this year, setting a new record. That's up a little more than 20% from a year ago, while visitor spending rose at more than twice that pace. China
Asia Minute: Why New Zealand is fine tuning its immigration policies (opens the original)
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Immigration remains a campaign issue for many candidates in the U.S. midterm elections. But across the Pacific, one country is making it easier for some skilled workers to move there. New Zealand is taking a different approach to match migrants with jobs that the country needs to fill. About three weeks ago, the country established what it calls a new skilled migrant visa — aimed at attracting qualified workers in a variety of fields, including technical positions, and certain roles in engineeri
Center for Oral History receives funding for future projects on Maui and beyond (opens the original)
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The Center for Oral History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa recently landed more than half a million dollars in new funding. HPR has worked with the Center for Oral History on joint projects in the past, and that collaboration aims to continue as new funding creates new opportunities for the future. Kunmi Yu Dancio, the director of the Center for Oral History, spoke with HPR about their upcoming plans. It all started with a museum project that took place at the Maui Arts and Cultural Cente
Asia Minute: Hybrids are driving a South Korean automaker's latest U.S. expansion (opens the original)
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One of Asia's biggest automakers is looking for new roads into the United States — including Hawaiʻi. And the strategy has a new twist. Hybrid, not all-electric. That's the plan that Hyundai has when it comes to ramping up its sales in the United States. The South Korean automaker said Wednesday that it plans to increase production in North America by half a million cars by the end of next year. Sales of all-electric vehicles have fallen in the United States with the decline of tax credits. But
Asia Minute: Chasing babies in Singapore (opens the original)
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Census figures show Hawaiʻi's population is aging faster than the national average. That's also an issue in many parts of Asia, where one government is trying a new approach to meet some of the challenges. Singapore's government says the country has a baby problem: there aren’t enough of them. The government wants to encourage its citizens to have more children to increase its birth rate and create a demographic cushion for its aging population. And it's willing to spend more money to make that
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