East Asia

People walk past a board full of pictures celebrating AAPI heritage month

Students push for adding Asian American history to school curriculums across the US

Asian Americans face growing discrimination over COVID-19, but racism against the community in the US is nothing new. Now, students are pushing for better representation in the classroom.

Students push for adding Asian American history to school curriculums across the US
Kazakhs protest what they see as excessive expansion of Chinese influence in Kazakhstan, including new Silk Road investments, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dec. 2019.

China's new Silk Road traverses Kazakhstan. But some Kazakhs are skeptical of Chinese influence.

China's new Silk Road traverses Kazakhstan. But some Kazakhs are skeptical of Chinese influence.
Military tanks pass by a building featuring traditional Chinese architecture.

Misusing culture in international politics: Part I

Misusing culture in international politics: Part I
black and white photo of three women and a man standing on stage

60 years before BTS, the Kim Sisters were America's original K-pop stars

60 years before BTS, the Kim Sisters were America's original K-pop stars
A woman works out with apartment buildings behind her

How single women are driving gentrification in Hong Kong and elsewhere

How single women are driving gentrification in Hong Kong and elsewhere
Takuya Yokota in Tokyo in November 2017. He continues to speak out about North Korea's abduction of his sister in 1977.

Japan could ease tensions with North Korea — if North Korea comes clean on its abduction of Japanese citizens

Last year at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump brought up the issue of the Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea. This year, he praised North Korea's leader for his courage.

Japan could ease tensions with North Korea — if North Korea comes clean on its abduction of Japanese citizens
Trump meets with Jinping in China

The next cold war? US-China trade war risks something worse

The US and China once again exchanged fire in their escalating trade war. Tariffs have been the main source of ammunition thus far, but China has other weapons it could begin to deploy.

The next cold war? US-China trade war risks something worse
North Korean nuclear scientists cheer leader Kim Jong Un

North Korea fires another missile, the 'DPRK's answer to the Trump administration'

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile on Sunday, the latest in a series of launches which have sparked international condemnation and threats of tougher UN sanctions.

North Korea fires another missile, the 'DPRK's answer to the Trump administration'
Kim Craig has spent the past three years in Korea, hoping to get home to the US.

This woman has been stuck in Korea for three years trying to get home to the US

Her adoptive parents never filed the paperwork to make her a US citizen. So Kim Craig fell through the cracks. And now she finds herself stuck in Korea after a visit, unable to get back to the US.

This woman has been stuck in Korea for three years trying to get home to the US
A Tsukiji shopkeeper prepares a basket of live eels for sale.

Sadness prefaces the closing of the world's biggest fish market, Tokyo's Tsukiji

Tokyo's famous fish market has been slated to close for decades. But now it really has to go to make way for the 2020 Olympics.

Sadness prefaces the closing of the world's biggest fish market, Tokyo's Tsukiji
Maitian and his wife got married 20 years ago. He's never told her that he's gay.

This gay Chinese man passed on his HIV infection to his wife. But she doesn't know that.

HIV rates are rising among gay men in China. And there are fears that some of these men may infect their wives.

This gay Chinese man passed on his HIV infection to his wife. But she doesn't know that.
An artist ties himself with a rope that spells out "Kidnap" during a protest over the disappearance of booksellers in Hong Kong, Jan. 10, 2016.

China is expanding its pursuit of fleeing dissidents worldwide

Their offenses include publishing exposés and reports on scandals that embarrass the Communist Party. Some of them amount to substantial accounts of abuse. Others are closer to National Inquirer-style tabloid fodder. At the time they disappeared, Lee and Gui, both Hong Kongers, were prepping a salacious book on the Chinese president’s love life.

China is expanding its pursuit of fleeing dissidents worldwide
Journalism students gather at Shantou University, in China's Guangdong province

Bonus: Teaching China's next generation of journalists to question everything

Journalists love to ask why, and authoritarian governments don't much like to be questioned. So how to teach China's future journalists to do good work despite the censors and other pressures? Former CBS veteran Peter Herford talks about his decade teaching his craft to China's next generation of journalists. A Whose Century Is It bonus episode, to accompany Episode 9: And That's the Way it Was, about the past and future of journalism from a guy who's spent the better part of a century in it.

Bonus: Teaching China's next generation of journalists to question everything
Actor Song Il Kook with his triplets, Daehan, Minguk, and Manse. They're featured on the Korean reality show, "Superman is Back."

Could a Korean reality show make men better fathers — and husbands?

It's so unusual for Korean men to stay at home and take care of their kids that there's now a hugely popular reality show featuring celebrities as stay-at-home dads.

Could a Korean reality show make men better fathers — and husbands?
Stay-at-home dad Wonhoe Bae with his two boys in their apartment in South Korea.  He does all the childcare, meal planning, and manages the home.

What’s this Korean man doing in the kitchen?

In a society where men rarely get home before 10 or 11 at night, Wonhoe Bae is a rarity — he's a stay-at-home dad.

What’s this Korean man doing in the kitchen?