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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
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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
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China has built and is operating the world's largest Radio telescope.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KGUA, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell introduces the deadly events of Nov. 5, 2011 when a white off-duty federal agent shot and killed a Nat...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 36:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Fish caught in the Niagara River August 2016, Credit: BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Fish caught in the Niagara River August 2016
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
Caption: Mr. Kohinoor meets the Royals
The British left India a few years ago. Well almost 70 to be precise. But for some Indians, it’s just like yesterday, and with WillKat otherwise kn...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Suzette Jordan
Justice has finally come for Suzette Jordan.Though she was not there to witness it. In 2013 she became the face of rape in Kolkata, India. Her att...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
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The San Gabriel Valley is just like any other suburb in America. Life revolves around family and school; the social fabric is woven over cheap eats...

Bought by KUER, WNCU, KOSU, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 31
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Alan Bollard talks with Elite Talk's host Zhenyu Li about the future trade landscape in the Asia-Pacific.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2014
  • Length: 06:30
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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Without ever knowing it, you may have driven the same routes, passed the same landmarks and used the same rest stops as today’s human trafficking n...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Kalpana Pradhan, Kolkata, India
A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:44
Caption: Ross Rothpanhar, Credit: Ian Hill/KQED
Ross Rothpanhar is a public health major at University of California, Berkeley. He says growing up poor made him appreciate government services.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:06
Caption: JRS staff from around the world discuss issues surrounding urban refugees while meeting at the St. Gabriel Personnel Development Center in Bangkok, Thailand, March 22, 2012. , Credit: Christian Fuchs — Jesuit Refugee Service/USA
(Washington, D.C.) April 27, 2012 - Jesuit Refugee Service has long recognized that serving urban refugee populations is a major challenge. Isolati...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
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A look into the complicated relationships between Nations in the Far East.

Bought by KQED, KPVL, KUOW, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Akinori Adachi is an exchange student from Japan who is currently studying in Maine. He says that before the nuclear crisis in Fukushima caused by ...

Bought by KZYX and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Danny Katz is a Japanese-American who grew up in the USA, but who now lives and works in Tokyo. After the big earthquake and tsunami, he made the d...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 10, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Miki Pyle lives in South Portland, Maine. Over 5,000 people in her hometown died during Japan's last major earthquake. Seeing how the Japanese peop...

Bought by KZYX and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 10, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Messges from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Atsuko Fujimori works at a bakery in Portland, Maine. Though she grew up in Tokyo, she was born in Iwate, the region where the earthquake and tsuna...

Bought by KZYX and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Shinji Ishikawa as intern at Blunt Youth Radio
When the earthquake hit, Shinji Ishikawa was at work on the 13th floor at the large trading firm he works for in Tokyo. He never expected the destr...

Bought by KZYX and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Students in Fukushima, seen here studying American junior high school yearbooks.
Long before most Americans had heard of a place called Fukushima, commentator Graham Shelby spent three years teaching English there. He's been wa...

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Four months after violence against immigrants, Kyrgyzstan is forming a new government. How will this contribute to stability? Crisis Group’s Centr...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:33
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Shanghai is host to the World Expo this summer, but it’s another exhibit in town that’s stealing the show. It’s a display of robots made from scra...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
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In a speech at a US military base in South Korea this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said “North Korea is a lethal and destabilizing force in...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 05:26
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One of Michigan's ethnic minorities finds a voice

  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 02:42