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Ted Maloney, Director of Global Initiatives at Skagit Valley College talks with Dave about two recent trips to Vietnam; trips that included crawlin...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:12
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Humorous and philosophical essay about a brush with Chinese Security Guards in Shanghai

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
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Humorous and Philosophical essay about "Face Culture" in everyday China

  • Added: Jun 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
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New refugees have to juggle a lot. There's finding housing, getting kids enrolled in school; often there's learning English. And there's finding a ...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
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join us for this weeks segment on the chinese new year

  • Added: Feb 07, 2012
  • Length: 19:38
Caption: the Queen with Meerak, Credit: Jack Chance
Bhutan is a land of prayer flags and happiness. But people are people, and human suffering, including domestic violence, is as prevalent here as i...

Bought by KUER, KZYX, KQED, KFOK-LPFM, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 24:36
  • Purchases: 5
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Self-described as a simple mountain coolie, he became one of the world's foremost mountaineers and, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first ... ev...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Credit: WildChina
We conclude this week's show on China World Heritage with special guests Ms. Lulu Zhou, associate director of philanthropy at The Nature Conservanc...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 11:02
Caption: Green Travel, Credit: Green Directory Earth
Join us for the second part of this week's show on China World Heritage with special guests Ms. Lulu Zhou, associate director of philanthropy at Th...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 07:26
Caption: Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Area, Credit: China Odyssey Tours
We continue the Chinese New Year celebration with the first part of this week's show on China World Heritage with special guests Ms. Lulu Zhou, ass...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 07:16
Caption: Ancient Grand Canal runs through the city, Wuxi, Credit: China National Tourist Office
We continue our celebration of the Chinese New Year with special guest Baoshi Jin, assistant director of China National Tourist Office in New York.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 11:10
Caption: Jonathan Green, author of "Murder in the High Himalaya", Credit: jonathangreenonline.com
Chinese troops shot and killed a 17-year-old Buddhist nun trying to flee Tibet. Foreign mountaineers got the whole thing on video. (Q&A with Jonath...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 06:40
Caption: Memm at Angkor Wat, Credit: Cambodia Living Arts
A thousand years ago, the image of a strange instrument was carved into the walls of Angkor Wat. It had a lizard scale on one end, attached to a so...

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 3
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This week's GG goes inside the Royal Ploughing Ceremony to hear how Cambodians predict the future -- agriculturally AND economically.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: North Korea - 2006, Credit: Rita Colaço
Stories of lives without parallel in the Korean Peninsula, divided by the most militarized border in the world.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2009
  • Length: 14:19
Caption: Cel roti is eaten during any festive gathering, official or unofficial, including holidays or in the presence of good company--and especially during the harvest festivals of Dashain and Tihar in October and November., Credit: Laura Spero
Learning to cook a traditional fried bread in Nepal.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 04:57
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Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn talk about their music

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Oct 31, 2008
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
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review of documentary "Jaisalmer Ayo: Gateway of the Gypsies"

  • Added: Jun 15, 2008
  • Length: 03:49
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Ever wondered how the Himalayas got mapped? What is the connection between Rudyard Kipling's Kim and the the group that mapped the Himalayas?

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 26:28
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
Riding the muni on a Sunny day

  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 09:23
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Elizabeth Hawley is the best-known chronicler of Everest expeditions, yet has never visited the mountain herself

  • Added: Feb 18, 2006
  • Length: 14:37
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In Mongolia, the word's oldest religion is changing

Bought by KTNA, KUCB, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 31, 2005
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3
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Christopher G. Moore redraws the line between fact and fiction

  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 15:37
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More than half of Hawaii's residents speak Pidgin - a combination of English, Hawaiian and Asian languages.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KREV-LP, KZYX, KUOW and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 6
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Greatness awaits at the front of the line.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, KERA, and BSR Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2004
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 4