Technology
GlobalPost
July 19, 2018
Bangkok-based OmiseGO envisions a world where cash is digital and free-flowing, stored on blockchains, accessible by smartphones and effortlessly zapped across borders. It's a human right, they say. And they're starting with Asia's farmers, merchants, migrants and factory hands, who are now quite likely to own smartphones but may not have bank accounts.
Health
The debate over 'natural family planning': Does it work?
PRI's The World
March 09, 2015
Updated
The Catholic Church urges ‘natural family planning’ and says it has 98 percent effectiveness. A medical expert says it is closer to 80 percent — and that is in societies where a woman is able to say no to a partner's demands for sex.
Health
Providing safe illegal abortions in Myanmar is a ‘karmic balance,’ says one doctor
PRI's The World
September 08, 2016
Abortion is illegal in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, but many women still seek access. Illegal abortions are a leading cause of maternal death there.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Living on Call Center Time in the Philippines
PRI's The World
August 12, 2013
There's a whole culture in the Philippines that's evolved around people working on a New York time zone. They don't just live on US time, they live in US weather, and US culture.
Conflict & Justice
Groups 'rescue' Thai sex workers, whether they want it or not
PRI's The World
October 17, 2013
Under pressure by the US government and American evangelicals, the Thai government has stepped up raids to rescue sex trafficking victims. The trouble is, many of the "rescued" sex workers may not have been trafficked in the first place.
Culture
What's behind the restaurants North Korea runs around the world? Kitsch — and perhaps recordings.
GlobalPost
May 06, 2016
Even Americans are welcome in these North Korean outposts. But Pyongyang may be recording it all.
Economics
The seafood you eat may have been caught by slaves
PRI's The World
March 25, 2015
Thousands of men from Myanmar and other southeast Asian countries are being used as slaves to catch fish that may end up on American dinner tables. The Associated Press uncovered the story and followed the distribution trail to the United States.
Conflict
The biggest group of current refugees in the US? Christians from Myanmar.
PRI's The World
May 04, 2017
Trump’s anti-refugee push has hidden victims.
Arts, Culture & Media
'The Missing Picture' is the first Cambodian film to make it to Oscar night
PRI's The World
February 27, 2014
Cambodian director Rithy Panh will be in Los Angeles for the Oscars on Sunday. His film, "The Missing Picture," is the first film from Cambodia ever to be nominated for an Academy Award. It's Rithy Panh's own personal memories of spending four years of his childhood living in a labor camp under the Khmer Rouge, watching as almost every member of his family died.
Conflict & Justice
Duped, Sold into Prostitution, then Rescued: A Vietnamese Girl and the Man Who Saved Her
PRI's The World
May 20, 2013
Reporter Phillip Martin has been investigating human trafficking in various parts of the world and in Vietnam he found a glimmer of hope, as a young woman who was kidnapped and sold to a brothel in China, returns to her family.
Global Politics
Executive actions can be contentious all over the world
PRI's The World
November 21, 2014
Some Republicans are so incensed about President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration that they're calling it illegal. It's easy to find similar disagreement over the use of presidential powers in other political systems around the world.