About APAC Digest

A verified weekly digest of Asia-Pacific-eligible fellowships, scholarships, and small grants, drawn only from official sources, with checked deadlines.

What this site is

APAC Digest is a weekly digest of fellowships, scholarships, and small grants that are open to applicants based in Asia-Pacific. Every listing here points at the awarding organization's own page — never at an aggregator, a link shortener, or a tracking redirect.

Where the listings come from

Listings are drawn from official source lists. Each source below is the publisher's own index for that category, and it is the place to go if you want to confirm a listing independently.

• Grants.gov API — This product uses the Grants.gov API but is not endorsed or certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Required wording from the Grants.gov API Terms of Service, Attribution section, https://www.grants.gov/api/terms-conditions (fetched 2026-11-10). First-run scan did not catalogue individual APAC-applicant awards; source registered for later harvests.
• EU Funding & Tenders Portal — Official EU portal for institutional calls, including MSCA. Erasmus Mundus Joint Master student applications are submitted on each programme’s official site. Not harvested item-by-item in the 10 November 2026 first run, beyond registering the portal and reading the official MSCA 2027 page (dates then marked TBC).
• UKRI Opportunities RSS — Official UKRI opportunities RSS. On 2026-11-10 a browser-style fetch returned HTTP 500; curl received HTTP 200 (feed lastBuildDate 9 November 2026, 10:42 UTC). The 20 items then in the feed required a UK-registered or UKRI-eligible organisation as the lead, so none were added as APAC-individual listings.
• NSF Program Announcements and Information RSS — Official NSF funding RSS. On 2026-11-10 a browser-style fetch returned HTTP 500; curl received HTTP 200. Current items are NSF institutional or program solicitations (including GRFP, which is not generally open to non-U.S. applicants). No APAC-individual listings were added from this harvest.
• The Asia Foundation — Official foundation site; 2027 Development Fellows announcement was used to verify the 1 December 2026 deadline. Checked 10 November 2026.
• Chinese Embassy in Fiji — Chinese Government Scholarship Type A notice — Official embassy notice dated 1 November 2026 (Type A, Agency Number 2421). A direct fetch of campuschina.org failed with a TLS error on 2026-11-10; this embassy notice is the verified source for the deadline.
• Chinese Embassy in Indonesia — Chinese Government Scholarship Type A notice — Official embassy notice dated 27 October 2026 (Type A, Agency Number 3602). A direct fetch of campuschina.org failed with a TLS error on 2026-11-10; this embassy notice is the verified source for the deadline.
• EMMIR official applications page — Official EMMIR applications page, plus the Edition 14 call post and cost-and-funding page, checked 10 November 2026. Worldwide scholarship wording was also confirmed on the official EU Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters student page.
• Euroculture Erasmus Mundus Joint Master official application procedure — Official Euroculture application-procedure page, including the statement that Euroculture does not charge any application fees. Checked 10 November 2026.
• Gates Cambridge Trust (official timeline) — Official Gates Cambridge application timeline. University of Cambridge application-fee amounts were verified on https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply/how/application-fee (fetched 2026-11-10). The Trust does not cover that fee.
• GrEnFIn Erasmus Mundus Joint Master official application page — Official GrEnFIn application page for the 2027–28 intake. Checked 10 November 2026.
• Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (Research Grants Council) — Official HKPFS 2027/28 call letter. The RGC does not charge an application fee; participating universities may charge their own application or processing fees (amounts vary). Checked 10 November 2026.
• The Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship (official programme list) — Official Japan Foundation programme list; FY2027–28 application instructions PDF was used to verify the deadline. Checked 10 November 2026.
• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships (Standard) official guidelines — Official JSPS Standard fellowship application schedule and FY2027 English guidelines. Checked 10 November 2026.
• Kyushu University ADB-JSP official 2027 guidelines PDF — Official 2027 guidelines PDF. adb.org returned a Cloudflare HTTP 403 on 2026-11-10, so this university PDF was used. The PDF gives conflicting online-entry dates (30 November 2026 vs 30 November 2027, 23:59 JST); the listing is pending confirmation.
• Ritsumeikan University ADB-JSP official page — Official university ADB-JSP page. adb.org returned a Cloudflare HTTP 403 on 2026-11-10, so eligibility and the deadline were verified on this university page instead, including the statement that no application fee is required on this route.
• TaiwanICDF International Higher Education Scholarship Program — Official TaiwanICDF programme page. The 2027 application window (1 December 2026 to 15 March 2027) was verified; the 2027 eligible-country list in the official guidebook was not fully checked, so the listing remains pending.
• University of Tokyo GSFS ADB-JSP official page — Official GSFS ADB-JSP page and 2027 guideline PDF. adb.org returned a Cloudflare HTTP 403 on 2026-11-10, so this university page was used instead. This source covers the document-upload route, not the Integrated Biosciences exam-fee track.
• WINTOUR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master official application page — Official WINTOUR application page for the 2027–2029 Erasmus Mundus scholarship call. Checked 10 November 2026.
• Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program — Official JJ/WBGSP programme page. Eligible-country brief: https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/scholarships/brief/countries-eligible-for-jjwbgsp-scholarship (content-date 15 July 2026; fetched 2026-11-10). Earlier guessed country-list URLs returned HTTP 404. The HTML brief and Window 2 Annex 1 do not agree in every detail (Samoa is in Window 2 Annex 1 but not on the HTML brief).
• Yenching Academy of Peking University (official admissions) — Official admissions page, re-fetched over HTTPS on 2026-11-10 (HTTP 200). The HTTP URL http://yenchingacademy.pku.edu.cn/ADMISSIONS.htm returned HTTP 500 on the same day; use the HTTPS URL.
• University of Oxford Clarendon Scholarship (official applicants page) — Official Clarendon applicants page, checked 2026-11-10. Eligibility is open regardless of nationality; deadlines are set per course in December or January, so no single ISO date was recorded.
• University of Oxford Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships official page — Official Oxford scholarship page, checked 2026-11-10. Country eligibility and a single ISO deadline were not firmly established on the official materials used in this harvest.
• MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027 official call page — Official European Commission MSCA 2027 call page, checked 2026-11-10. Indicative dates are marked TBC, so no ISO deadline was recorded. When opened, applications go through the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

How listings are verified

• An editor opens the organization's official page for every listing.
• The deadline and the eligibility summary are read off that official page and checked against it — not against third-party summaries, not against a search result snippet.
• The date of that check is recorded as the Verification date shown on every listing and every detail page.
• The whole directory is re-checked in one round every week, which keeps the site in step with the weekly rhythm of the digest.

What gets published

Only entries whose status is published and whose deadline has not yet passed are published. A deadline is a moment in time, not a calendar day: an entry closes at the exact instant its deadline falls, in the time zone the official page named, and it closes the moment the clock reaches it. When the official page gives a date but no time zone, the entry closes at the earliest possible start of that day and stays in the directory until the end of that day, marked Closed, because the deadline day itself may still be open somewhere — check the official page. Entries still under editorial review and entries that were deliberately excluded are not published at all. A published entry that has since closed keeps its page, clearly marked Closed, so an old link still tells you what happened instead of leading nowhere.