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Finally, after years of gestation and convoluted, secretive negotiations under President Obama, the Trans Pacific Partnership passed away in its sl...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 04:54
Hold on Tightly! We discuss Exciting Wine Art and teach you the Secrets for not staining your Teeth with Red Wine! An informational & mirthful sh...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 01:00:00
Has Beijing decided that Trump represents a great opportunity to win power and influence at America's expense? President Xi Jinping led the charge ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 04:39
As President elect Trump orders China to cease "annexing" islands it claims as its own and cozies up to Taiwan, there seems now a real possibility ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2017
- Length: 04:50
Manipur’s court records talk about a game back in the 1st century AD and what’s different about polo in Manipur is that this not just a game for po...
- Added: Jan 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Nanfu Wang talks paranoia, creative radicalism, and dreaming big.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 27:03
Mongolia's religious preferences center around the Dalia Lama. China's don't. Mongolia invited the Dalia Lama to pay homage to his lineage, China s...
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 04:49
An underwater research drone was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 04:49
Conventional Wisdom says the Industrial Revolution passed China by. But is this a true interpretation of history?
- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 04:47
Chitra, an American Book Award winner, is known for creating tales of vivid women characters who live in either India or America. She is the author...
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 09:54
President Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Japan last week, he talked to God on the way back and the U.S. is as confused as ever about where ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2016
- Length: 04:50
Durga Puja and Diwali bookend our festival season in Kolkata. But there’s an ancillary festival that’s almost as important. It needs as much plann...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 06:00
The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...
- Added: Oct 22, 2016
- Length: 04:49
An environmental group in Western New York is trying to help area refugees and others learn about the danger of eating contaminated fish from the G...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WSKG, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 09, 2016
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 6
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns.
But Baluji...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Some refugees in Chapel Hill are finding a way to reconnect with their native farming tradition.
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 04:02
Jonathan Lim and Daxing Zhang talk subtlety, spirituality, and a red balloon.
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 18:23
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 06:00
There’s tea... and there’s Darjeeling tea.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s hardly Santaland but as Christmas approaches Montoo’s bakery, in a dingy lane in central Kolkata, is one of the city's hottest addresses.
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
It’s like saying "I don’t like Christmas." But Sandip Roy has never been particularly fond of Diwali.
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Many wealthy Chinese people have found a safe investment for their money actually lies in the U.S. – specifically, in American real estate. Accordi...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 06:35
Sandip Roy never learned how to fly a kite, and he regrets it every September.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A beloved Old Monk is dying in India. Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for t...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1