Ukraine

“Supply chain disruption.” It’s a phrase you’ve heard since the early days of the COVID pandemic. But for one product, it’s a squeeze hitting poor people around the world—including in the Asia Pacific. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

Dr. Irina Crook, a physician at Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi, has been working as a medical volunteer at a camp on the Ukraine-Poland border over the last month.

A local doctor details the scene at a refugee camp on the Polish-Ukrainian border; latest ridership numbers for the Honolulu Authority Rapid Transit rail project; living laboratory in Kohala on Hawaiʻi Island

A local doctor details the scene at a refugee camp on the Polish-Ukrainian border; latest ridership numbers for the Honolulu Authority Rapid Transit rail project; living laboratory in Kohala on Hawaiʻi Island

As the conflict continues in Ukraine, The Conversation takes a look at Ukrainians on Hawaiʻi sugar plantations. At Hawaii's Plantation Village in Waipahu, docent and board member Robert Castro began researching a handful of Ukrainians brought over to work in the sugar fields after a visitor inquired about them.

Efforts stall to rescue a National Historic Landmark; Transit Oriented Development spurs affordable housing talks; A look at Ukrainian history during plantation days; and poetry gets a legislative boost

Efforts stall to rescue a National Historic Landmark; Transit Oriented Development spurs affordable housing talks; A look at Ukrainian history during plantation days; and poetry gets a legislative boost

The uncertainty around the path forward amid the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces has upended lives across the globe stretching into another month. The Conversation spoke with Makiki resident and interpreter Antonina Thompson, and her ethnically Russian friend Marina Krivlova in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm responds to reports of increased violent crime; Ukrainians find community in Hawaiʻi while trying to support those on the front lines of the conflict; A local business that makes Aloha shirts pivots to survive the pandemic

Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm responds to reports of increased violent crime; Ukrainians find community in Hawaiʻi while trying to support those on the front lines of the conflict; A local business that makes Aloha shirts pivots to survive the pandemic