(LinkAsia News: 9/2/11) Kim Jong-Il says his country is ready to return to nuclear talks with no preconditions. Abraham Kim, from the Korea Economic Institute, explains why. The Asia Foundation's...
The Director of the Yara Arts Group, Virlana Tkacz, discusses their latest production "Scythian Stones." She describes the background of the piece, and her involvement with ancient songs and...
During the freezing winters of Mongolia, water can be hard to find. But newly rehabilitated wells are making life much easier for people like herder Batjargal and the livestock he...
A variety show: Tummel rocks the house with their own take on bhangra, Manu Chao sings his huge hit "Clandestino," Paula Lima croones a Brazilian classic, Väsen gives us a...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: March 19, 2010) The Quartet, a group of 4 top international diplomats, has called for a halt to Israeli settlement building in Jerusalem, and is...
(Mongolia) We first saw Urna perform in a Russian TV music series that was sent to us in 2001, and which we were never able to acquire. We were struck...
"The Making of In Xanadu" reveals what goes into the conceptualization and performance of this complex and visually exciting piece of theater. From interviews with the people who speak the...
This episode portrays the large areas of Mongolia being mined for gold by independent or "ninja" miners and the effects this has on traditional herders and the environment.
(China) Sa Dingding is from Inner Mongolia, or as she calls it, the Grasslands. For the first six years of her life, she was raised by her grandmother, and this...
