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Chinese Wedding Rush on “Love You Forever” Day
Couples are lining up to tie the knot in China today. That’s because “January 4, 2013″ sounds similar to “I will love you all my life” in Mandarin.
The Travelodge 2012 Lost and Found List
Our Geo Quiz takes us to a south west Welsh city where a collector left behind a valuable album of stamps worth a lot of money when he checked out of his hotel. James Pieslak with the UK’s budget hotel chain Travelodge helped compile a lost and found list that includes everything from a magic wand to a bucket of crabs, all left behind in its 527 UK hotels during 2012.
Welsh Band Pays Tribute to Samoa for Jumping the International Dateline
When Samoa jumped over the international dateline at the end of 2011, Howl Griff wrote a song about it. At the stroke of midnight of this year, a Samoa radio station played it, thus making the song “International Dateline” the first song played in 2013.
PRI’s The World: 01/03/2013 (Iceland, China, India)
Indian authorities file rape and murder charges against five of the six accused of gang raping a 23-year-old university student. India has been ranked one of the worse countries to be a woman. We examine the rankings of other nations. Then, Pan-Arab channel Al Jazeera buys cable news channel Currant, owned by Al Gore and associates. And the politics of taxes and rum in the Caribbean.
Charges Filed in India Rape Case
Indian authorities filed rape and murder charges Thursday against five men accused of gang rape of a 23-year-old university student.
Sweeping a Dusty Market in Search of Gold
On hands and knees, he painstakingly sweeps every inch of the street with an old shoe brush. But he and his young son Asad aren’t collecting trash. They’re looking for gold dust that blows out of the jewellery shops around them.
Qatari News Giant Al Jazeera Purchases American Channel Current TV
The Arab news giant Al Jazeera has purchased the American television news channel Current TV. The New York Times Media Reporter Brian Stelter tells anchor Marco Werman this represents a huge leap in audience numbers for the Qatari-owned channel.
Iceland’s Name War: Girl Sues to Use Her Given Name
A 15 year old girl in Iceland is taking her government to court. She’s suing for the right to use the name given her by her mother. Only certain names are allowed, by law, and hers isn’t one of them. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Sveinn Gudmarsson of the Icelandic National Broadcast Service.
How China’s New Leadership Continues Efforts to Control the Media
China’s government is increasingly trying to control the message and it’s increasingly having difficulty doing that. The latest example happened this week in Guangdong, when a government censor replaced the annual New Year’s editorial of a well-respected newspaper. And people went ballistic online.
Massachusetts Looks East to Lure Chinese Tourists
China has a middle class of some 300 million people. And more and more of them are traveling internationally. When they travel, they spend, and American states are increasingly trying to market themselves to bring Chinese tourists to their corner of the world.
Copy That: Architectural ‘Borrowing’ in China
Ever heard of an architectural style being knocked off? Well Iraqi-British Zaha Hadid has. The Iraqi-British architect unveiled her designs for the Wangjing Soho complex in Beijing in 2011, but a building that looks a lot like Hadid’s is also going up in the city of Chongqing.
Fiscal Cliff Bill’s Hidden Subsidy For Caribbean Rum
Which of the Caribbean region rum producing countries has the oldest continuously producing rum distillery ? This country has been making rum in wooden stills along the banks of the Demerara River ever since the 17th century. Rum expert Edward Hamilton has the answer.
Remembering Master Violinist M. S. Gopalakrishnan
M.S. Gopalakrishnan was a violinist whose intense study led him to develop new styles of playing the instrument in Indian classical music.
PRI’s The World: 01/02/2013 (Sierra Leone, Finland, Jordan)
Thousands rally in Delhi demanding an end to India’s culture of violence against women. Also, the long-term questions posed as Finland prepares to move its nuclear waster underground. And a street musician from Sierra Leone builds an American following, thanks to the Internet.
Thousands Protest Sexual Violence in India
Thousands of women rallied in Delhi, India, in the latest protest following the brutal rape of a 23-year-old student last month. The victim died over the weekend. The protests demand an end to a culture of violence against women in India. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Jatin Anand, a reporter for The Hindustan Times.
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