Global Issues

Microfinance

Seeds of Change

China: Micro vs. Mandarin

Women: The Micro-Mystique

Nuclear Asia

Has the World Gone M.A.D.?

North Korea: This is Not Just About a Test

Japan: Voices from the A-Bomb Blast

Urban Life

Will Cities Make a Splash?

Shanghai: Metropolitan Idol

Singapore: Tough Love in the Nanny State

Beijing: Life in the New China

Global Health

Globalization Bites

Deadly Secrets: China and HIV/AIDS

Close Calls: The Story of SARS

The Copycat Cure: Affordable Medicines

Global Climate Change

Face Off with the Future

Bangladesh: In the Eye of the Storm

Japan: Who Ate Kyoto?

International Careers

Kathleen Samuel
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

Juniper Neill
Natural Resources Management, US Foreign Service

Brad Evans
Diplomatic Corps, US Foreign Service

Harvey Keh
Access to Education in the Philippines

Jeni Washeleski
Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET)

Brantley Turner Bradley
Discovering China through Youth

Ann Liu
Approaching China through the Generation Gap

Joshua Halpern
Unmasking China through Theater

Adina Matisoff
Uncovering China through Rural Life

Samm Tyroler-Cooper
Exploring China through the Experiences of Migrant Workers

Veronica Colondam
Preventing Drug Abuse in Indonesia

Chris Jones
Health Communications, Population Services International (PSI)

Mitsuru Claire Chino
Promoting Women’s Interests in Corporate Japan

Thanh-Tam Ho
Paralegal, International Law Firm

Contests

Goldman Sachs Foundation Youth Prizes for Excellence in International Education
2006 Winners

Arts and Culture

Movies

Interview: Daniel Gordon
Director of A State of Mind
A documentary about North Korean gymnast schoolgirls

Interview: Emiko Omori
Director of Skin Stories
A documentary about the Asian history of the tattoo

Interview: Daniel Dae Kim
Actor, Lost

Interview: Maggie Cheung
Actor who has worked with Jackie Chan and Wong Kar Wai

Music

Interview: DJ Kuttin Kandi

Altai-Hangai
Mongolian musicians

Cobra: China Rocks!
China's first all-female rock band

Books

Interview: Tess Uriza Holthe
Author, When the Elephants Dance

Dance and Performing Arts

I Land: Hawai'ian Talk Story

Dance: The Spirit of Cambodia

Music and Dance of Myanmar (Burma)

Exhibitions

Gilded Splendor
Treasures of China's Liao Empire
(907-1125)

Asian Games:
The Art of Contest

In the Realm of Gods and Kings:
Arts of India

When Gold Blossoms:
Indian Jewelry

Between Past and Future:
New Art and Video from China

Golden Fantasies:
Japanese Screens

Paradise Now?
Contemporary Art from the Pacific

Native Born:
Contemporary Aboriginal Art
from Australia

Through Afghan Eyes:
A Culture in Conflict
1987-1992

Monks and Merchants:
Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China,
Gansu and Ningxia,
4th to 7th Century

Dancing Demons:
Ceremonial Masks of Mongolia

China:
Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic

Fire Over Earth:
Ceramics from the Collection of the Asia Society

Asian Languages

Japanese Onomatopoeia Game

Life in the New China
Listen to Beijing students talk about their
life and their school in English and Mandarin

News and Resources

Asia Today
Daily news stories from across Asia

Interactive Atlas
From National Geographic and Asia Society