Ukraine

A Honolulu surgeon who recently returned from Ukraine said he prays for the end of the war. Dr. Andy Oishi took part in a month-long humanitarian mission through the nonprofit group Samaritan’s Purse.

The United States continues to enforce an embargo against Russian oil, along with a number of other western countries. But one U.S. ally in the Asia-Pacific is considering an energy deal with Russia. HPRʻs Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.

Five medical professionals from Ukraine are training at the Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu this week. The training focuses on rehabilitating children who experienced catastrophic injuries.

A $325 million superyacht seized by the United States from a sanctioned Russian oligarch arrived in San Diego on Monday. The Amadea made a stop in Honolulu Harbor en route to California.

A Russian-owned superyacht seized by the United States has arrived in Honolulu Harbor flying an American flag. The U.S. last week won a legal battle in Fiji to take the $325 million vessel and immediately sailed it to Hawaiʻi.

“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

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