Jordan Flake

After spending a good portion of his adult life in Asia raising a family in Beijing, Taiwan, and most recently Hong Kong, Elder Anthony D. Perkins of the First Quorum of the Seventy and President of the Asia Area testified of the blessings of allowing the Spirit to guide as we make decisions in life.

After starting one of the fastest growing companies in America, Alan Akina (pictured top), has decided to finish the degree he started at BYU–Hawaii more than a decade ago.

Two Taiwanese families and graduates from BYU–Hawaii, Ben and Shirley Tsai (pictured right with their daughter Kelani), along with Eric and Kate Weng, were featured in the Church News along with other couples in the Church in Taiwan who had served missions and were married in the temple.

BYU–Hawaii’s International Business Management (IBM) and Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) majors recently underwent revision that has changed the structure and curriculum of both degrees. This refinement has given the International Business Management major a new face and shortened name—Business Management. The newly dubbed Business Management has six ‘tracks’ or areas of focus within the major. And the Hospitality and Tourism Management major also faced changes—two classes have been deleted from the curriculum; also, some of the basic business classes have been combined with the Business Management degree. (Pictured above: international business students of BYU–Hawaii)

David Evans, BYU–Hawaii alumnus and owner of Evans Construction, was recently selected as Pacific Business News 2009 Forty under 40.

Ambassador Balazs Bokor, consul general of the Republic of Hungary in Los Angeles (pictured right), came to BYU–Hawaii to speak about the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and was welcomed at the McKay foyer with a traditional Hawaiian chant and leis.