India and China are competing for influence in the Maldives, a tiny country of 1,200 islands scattered in the northern Indian Ocean.
For the Geo Quiz today we are asking the name of the stadium in Shanghai where Nicolas Anelka will be playing soon.
The band “Haya” sings songs about nature and the Mongolian grasslands in its new album “Migration.”
A former Buddhist monk in Tibet has reportedly died from his burns after setting himself on fire earlier this month.
New information about China’s capacity to wage nuclear war is coming to light, thanks to the hard work of a group of Georgetown University undergrads.
For the Geo Quiz, we’re zeroing in on China’s biggest city. American Tina Sawaya is heading there next year for a new teaching job.
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is rapidly moderning. But it’s also actively trying to retain its Buddhist spiritual base. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad has the second piece in her two-part series on balancing Buddhism with the modern world.
People in China are increasingly turning to Tibetan Buddhism to help them find meaning in their lives. That’s happening as the Chinese government continues to crack down on the Dalai Lama and Tibetans who revere him.
New conflict in Kachin State shows how hard reform in Myanmar will be.
Cyberspace is the new fifth domain of war between states, after air, land, sea and outer space. Its unclear how the rules of war apply. At a meeting of military and academic legal scholars at the UC Berkeley law school, the consensus was that the laws have fallen far behind the technology.
China may not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking about places that American organic farmers could learn from. But a group of American advocates of a safe and sustainable food chain learned a few things on their recent trip to organic farms near Beijing.
Anchor Marco Werman speaks to The World’s correspondent Mary Kay Magistad about a delegation of prominent figures in American culture visiting China this week for a forum on arts and culture.
China’s rise and its global outreach for resources is one of the epic stories of our time. And nowhere has that story had more drama and a steeper learning curve than in Africa, where China has invested heavily over the past eight years, and has hit a few bumps along the way. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad tracks examples of Chinese commercial and cultural enterprises in Africa, and gauges their impact.
Rwanda would like to be the Singapore of Africa – an IT center in the region. And it’s calling on China for help though Rwanda wants to dictate the terms. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports from Kigali.
