Jul 21 Life in the Post Food-Surplus World By Ray Suarez Women shelling mussels in Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. Hunger activists used to argue that the world produces more than enough food for all of its people -- it's the transportation, storage, and waste that cause the problem. Now, that… Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch Soaring Food Costs Hit Indonesian Families' Budgets The price of rice has risen 25 percent in less than a year in Indonesia, and more families have stunted or malnourished children as a results of soaring costs. Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch Indonesian Plant Shows Promise for Male Birth Control A plant that reduces fertility, long used by Indonesian men, is being tested as a possible daily male birth control pill. Continue watching
Jul 19 Slide Show: Indonesia's Rise Not Lifting Everyone By Cat Wise Tuesday on the NewsHour, Ray Suarez reports on Indonesia's growing economy and its potential as a model for new democracies emerging from the Arab Spring. Watch that report online exclusively right now in our sneak peek, and for more… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Indonesia on the Rise: Is It a Model for New Democracies? Indonesia is an evolving, prospering democracy, but the country continues to struggle with corruption and economic inequality. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Jul 18 Tsunami-Devastated Aceh an Epicenter of Mental Health Woes By Cat Wise Monday on the NewsHour, Ray Suarez reports on the lack of mental health services in Indonesia. Learn more about the problem in the Aceh region of Indonesia in the post below. Survivors mourn the dead after a large tsunami hit… Continue reading
Jul 14 Sneak Peek: Indonesia Series Explores Rising Power's Major Health Challenges By Talea Miller Updated with all the series reports on July 19. While Indonesia boasts the world's fourth-largest population, the biggest Muslim population, 6,000 islands and a top 20 economy, many Americans know very little of the Southeast Asian nation --… Continue reading
Jul 14 Has Google Changed Our Memories? EmbedVideo(1001, 482, 304); We've all been there: you're in a heated debate with a friend about a role one of your favorite actresses played five years back. You struggle for 30 seconds, maybe a minute, to bring the… Continue reading
Jul 13 Studies: HIV Meds Can Help Prevent New Infections By Talea Miller Patients wait at an HIV clinic in Mozambique. HIV-negative men and women who took a daily pill usually used to treat the disease reduced their risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 60 percent, two new studies show. Continue reading
Jul 13 What We're Reading: Superbugs, Second Thumbs and Potato Genomes Worries About a Gonorrhea 'Superbug' Gonorrhea is becoming increasingly resistant to the only drugs used to treat it. Resistant strains of the common sexually transmitted disease have failed antibiotic treatment in two cases now -- one in Japan,… Continue reading