Mar 15 Hong Kong: Great Views If You Can See Them A man gets his picture taken in front of high rise buildings shrouded in haze in Hong Kong on Aug. 3, 2012. Photo by Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images. HONG KONG -- This little chunk of China offers some of the… Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch Two Years Since Start of Protests, Syria Rebels Vow to Fight Until Assad Is Gone The conflict in Syria hit a grim milestone: two years ago protests began that would spark the current civil war. Syrian rebels have announced they will continue to fight until the Assad regime is gone. Jeffrey Brown reports on whether… Continue watching
Mar 14 A New Pope, and Maybe a New Era Pope Francis in 2013, then the Argentine archbishop, during a mass for Ash Wednesday at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo by Juan Mabromata/ AFP/ Getty Images. The aging, French cardinal proto-deacon Jean-Louis Tauran stepped in front… Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch State of Life in Japan Two Years After Massive Earthquake and Tsumani State of Life in Japan Two Years After Massive Earthquake and Tsumani… Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch Scientists Search for Solution to 'Toxic Cocktail' in Washington's Puget Sound Seattleites Construct Rain Gardens to Curb Pollution From Stormwater Runoff… Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch Examining U.S. Concerns on Trade, Security as China Welcomes New President Examining U.S. Concerns on Trade, Security as China Welcomes New President… Continue watching
Mar 14 U.N. Country Rankings Show Fastest Progress in Developing Nations By Larisa Epatko An annual assessment of 187 countries released Thursday shows the economies of countries such as Brazil and China continuing to grow, but also improvements in areas such as education and income in more than a dozen developing nations. Continue reading
Mar 14 Top Five and Bottom Five Countries in U.N. Ratings By Larisa Epatko As in the U.N. Development Program's last review in 2011, Norway reigns supreme and the United States made the top five, while the African nations of Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo came in last. Continue reading
Mar 14 Asia's Mojo Keeps on Working Shoppers in the Paragon mall in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images. No matter how many Washington think tank conferences one covers, all their accumulated wisdom is no substitute for going to the countries they are talking about. Continue reading
Mar 13 Viva Pope Francis: The First South American Pope By Larisa Epatko It took cardinals only two days to elect the new leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics on Wednesday afternoon: Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first pope from South America. He took the name Pope Francis. Continue reading