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Pacific Time Monterey's Asian American History, Japan's Boomers Retire, A Look Back at Pacific Time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time The West and Burma; Japan, China, and the Global Economy; Asian Americans and Gambling, Part 2; Free Food for Millionaires Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time Green Business in China, Role of the Burmese Monks, Asian Americans and Gambling - Part 1, 2007 Dragon Boat Festival Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time Outsourcing to Atlanta, CyWorld, Pork and the Chinese Economy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation, Outsourcing Language Lessons, Preserving Maori Language, Inspire '07, Hiroshi Sugimoto Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-08-30 _ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-08-23 _ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-08-16 _ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-08-09 _ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-08-02 _ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-07-26 _ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-07-19 _ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-07-05 Hongcouver -- The handover of Hong Kong to Chinese control a decade ago was especially strongly felt in Vancouver, the closest major North American city to the former British Colony. As the program learns, many business and community leaders feel that the effects of the 1997 handover are still being seen today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-06-28 _ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-06-14 Your Passport to Asia and America -- Today's program includes stories about an American who brings the circus to the islands of Samoa. Find out why Asian Americans are cheering the stall on immigration reform; and text messages - hear how they're the new tools of protest in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-06-21 - Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Koreatown Real Estate Koreatown Real Estate -- Real estate sales may be slow in most of America, but the bubble never really burst in Los Angeles's Koreatown. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-05-17 Contamination Concerns from China -- As concerns about contaminated food products from China spread from pet food to the human food supply, the program explores the potential consequences for Chinese businesses and American regulators. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-05-24 Cuba's Resurgent Chinatown -- With contact between Cuba and China on the rise, parts of Cuba are again sounding and tasting more Chinese. The program visits one of North America's most unusual Chinatowns, Barrio Chino in Havana, Cuba. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-05-31 New Difficulties for Americans Looking to Adopt from China -- China has been a popular country for Americans looking to adopt children. This week, however, the country implements a new policy that will make it more difficult for many American families to adopt from there. Also, as the program learns, potential parents aren't the only ones affected. Niche businesses that serve the Chinese adoptee community are also bracing for change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-06-07 Fighting Hepatitis in the Asian American Community -- Liver cancer caused by Hepatitis B recently claimed the life of the first Asian American mayor of the California city of San Gabriel. Chi Mui died after just one month in office at the age of 53. To make sense of his abrupt passing, community leaders and the press called on Dr. Samuel So, a liver surgeon and professor at Stanford University. In addition to operating on patients, teaching and conducting research, Dr. So is leading a globa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-05-03 Free Speech in Malaysia -- In Malaysia, a Muslim country with a volatile history of race relations between the Malay and ethnic Chinese and Indians, speech and the media are controlled by the government in the name of keeping harmony and peace. While some Malaysians accept that policy, many young people find it stifling. One ex-pat based in California is trying to help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-04-26 Boosting Business in the Philippines -- American firms are turning to the Philippines to handle customer relations. The program reports on how this phenomenon is boosting business on the archipelago in unexpected ways. Also, the program learns how a herdsman from Mongolia has won a major American environmental award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-04-19 Korean Americans Worry About a Virginia Tech Backlash -- The Virginia Tech shootings have aroused feelings of shame among Korean Americans, but some are worried more about a possible backlash towards the community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-04-12 Bataan Revisited -- Sixty-five years ago this week, a group of American and Filipino soldiers surrendered to the Japanese Army in the Philippines. They'd been fighting the Japanese invasion in the Bataan peninsula for more than four months. After the surrender, the prisoners were forced to take part in what became known as the Bataan Death March. The program reports on how this week, survivors of the march came together in several U.S. cities to recall their ordeal, and to lobby for a bill ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-04-05 Census Leaked Information about Japanese Americans During WWII -- The program looks into the recent revelation that the Census Bureau turned over confidential information, including names and addresses, to help the U.S. government identify individual Japanese Americans during World War II. The revelation comes according to government documents released by two scholars Friday. The documents validate long-held suspicions among Japanese Americans that personal information about them collected ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-03-22 Taiwanese Elections -- With so much media coverage more than 18 months before the 2008 presidential election here in the U.S., many Americans envy countries where the official election cycle is much shorter. But in Taiwan, voters are already hearing from a parade of possible candidates even though they probably won't go to the polls until March of next year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-03-29 Taiko Drumming in the Twenty-First Century -- Taiko drumming is sometimes described as the heartbeat of Japan. It's an ancient cultural practice that has been a fixture of religious ceremonies, festivals, wars and everyday village life. But as performance art, it's still relatively young. In Japan and North America, a new generation of taiko players is pushing the sound in wildly new directions, expanding its scope while trying to negotiate between the sacred and the contemporary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-03-15 California Citrus Freeze: Khmer Rouge; Chinese Punk -- The freeze that destroyed citrus in California devastated Hmong Americans. One city has a unique plan to help. Also, find out about new fears that Khmer Rouge leaders who slaughtered Cambodians will not face justice. Plus, Chinese punkers hit the American indie scene. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-03-08 Fighting Terror in the Philippines -- For the past four decades, Muslim groups in the Philippines have been fighting back against domination by the country's Christian majority in their southern homeland of Mindanao. In 2002, U.S. troops joined the Philippine Army in going after one radical group, Abu Sayyaf, which is notorious for beheadings, bombings and kidnappings. The region became a front in the "War on Terror." American soldiers aren't allowed to take part in combat under Philippine ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-03-01 Japan and the North Korean Nuclear Talks -- Six nations worked on the deal to reduce North Korea's nuclear threat, and five got what they wanted. Find out why Japan is not satisfied with the deal. Plus, Asian-American women are statistically more likely to commit suicide. What are therapists and legislators trying to do to help? And, hear a review of the stories making news in the Asian-American ethnic press. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ringing in the Year of the Pig Ringing in the Year of the Pig -- The New Year has begun, and many Asian Americans bought their holiday goods from big-box stores like Costco and Wal-Mart instead of the traditional Chinatown shops. Also, as the program learns, in Thailand the Lunar New Year got off to an unhappy start as a series of explosions in the south killed eight people. Also on the program, sixty years after the signing of E. O. 9066 which sent Japanese Americans to internment camps, one of the historic camp sites i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-02-22 Ringing in the Year of the Pig -- The New Year has begun, and many Asian Americans bought their holiday goods from big-box stores like Costco and Wal-Mart instead of the traditional Chinatown shops. Also, as the program learns, in Thailand the Lunar New Year got off to an unhappy start as a series of explosions in the south killed eight people. Also on the program, sixty years after the signing of E. O. 9066 which sent Japanese Americans to internment camps, one of the historic camp sites i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-02-15 Is Lasting Peace On the way for the Korean Peninsula? -- With North Korea agreeing to take steps toward ending its nuclear weapons program, the show asks if a lasting peace on the Korean peninsula may be lost in translation. Also, this week's episode catches up with Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans rebuilding after Katrina, and takes a look at how some are saying farewell to the Year of the Dog and welcoming the Year of the Pig. These days, you can buy traditional Lunar New Year items fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-02-08 Business Ethics in China -- American firms navigate the ethical dos and don'ts in China -- where it's not surprising to do favors for business associates or pay a little extra under the table for faster service. Also, Korean immigrants pursuing the American dream may be sacrificing their health. Korean Americans are less likely than any other segment of the Asian American community to have health insurance. Also, an MTV reality show set in Hawaii gets no aloha from the locals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-02-01 Fish and Fowl -- Indonesia is getting tough on avian influenza, ordering Jakarta residents to give up their chickens, geese and ducks. There's bad news for sushi lovers: They may have to cope with a shortage of tuna. And Silicon Valley pioneer Scott McNealy looks forward after three decades of doing business in Japan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-01-25 Ancient Japanese Drumming Takes on Modern Life -- Taiko drumming is sometimes described as the heartbeat of Japan. It's an ancient form that has been a fixture of religious ceremonies, festivals, wars and everyday village life. But as performance art, it's still relatively young. And in Japan and North America, a new generation of taiko players is pushing the sound in wildly new directions, expanding its scope while trying to negotiate the sacred and the contemporary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-01-18 Asian Leaders Conclude Summit with Energy Agreement -- On Monday, leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) concluded their annual summit. Topics at the weeklong meeting held on the Philippine Island of Cebu included free trade and diplomacy. But the heads of state also signed an energy security pact, pledging to develop green energy sources and find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their countries. What does this mean for the nations that signed the agreemen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-01-11 Congress "Firsts" Include Buddhist Members -- The first Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, was sworn in last week. But amongst all the attention given to Rep. Ellison and his use of Thomas Jefferson's Koran, you might not have heard about the first Buddhist members of the 110th Congress. The program talks with Rev. Ron Kobata of the Buddhist Churches of America for his thoughts on this milestone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2007-01-04 Bangkok Bombs Shake Up Thailand's Claim of Stability -- On New Year's Eve, bombs in Bangkok killed three people and injured dozens, and damaged Thailand's reputation as a calm and stable place to live, visit and do business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-12-28 Women's Roles in Aceh; Preserving Tibetan Folk Music -- Pacific Time concludes a series of reports from Aceh, Indonesia, with a look at the changing roles of women. Aceh is the most traditionally Muslim part of the world's largest Islamic nation. Shariah law is practiced in the province, and "morality police" enforce dress codes on women in the street. But there's also a growing feminist movement in Aceh. When East Timor broke away from Indonesia several years ago, its residents had high ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-12-21 Two Years After the Tsunami: Phuket Rebounds -- Almost two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, the international aid effort to rebuild shattered communities is continuing. In Thailand, the resort island of Phuket is back on its feet with millions of foreign visitors a testament to its quick recovery, and the hospitality industry gearing up for a busy holiday season. Away from the beaches and bars, small communities of semi-nomadic fishermen known as "Moken" are also experiencing a success ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-12-14 Peace and Reconciliation in Indonesia's Tsunami Recovery -- The show continues its series of reports from Aceh, Indonesia. After 30 years of civil war, followed by the earthquake and tsunami two years ago, nearly every person in Aceh has experienced trauma, fear and the death of someone close to them. Now they're trying to find a way to peace and reconciliation with the past. Plus, 34 million Chinese bloggers are finding strength in numbers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-12-07 Two Years After the Tsunami, Aceh Still Recovering -- Pacific Time visits the Indonesian province of Aceh, rich in natural resources and with a distinct culture, but suffering after years of civil war and the devastating tsunami of December 2004. The first of a month-long series from Aceh focuses on the first open elections there, to be held next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-11-30 AIDS Education in China, Soap Opera Style -- Hear about the power of radio in one Chinese province, where soap operas are educating people about HIV and AIDS. Plus, the Cambodian-American community in Long Beach would like to rename its business district "Cambodiatown," but others in the neighborhood fear it will isolate non-Cambodians. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-11-23 This weekly program focuses on the connections between the United States and the Asian nations and communities of the Pacific Rim. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-11-16 Bush Faces Protests on Asia Trip -- President Bush makes his first foreign trip since the midterm elections by traveling to Viet Nam and Indonesia - the world's most populous Muslim nation. Find out why Islamist and other groups are planning big protests against American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how Bush plans to handle them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-11-09 Asian-American Votes Influenced Many Important Races -- According to exit polls, Asian Americans came out in greater-than-ever numbers in Tuesday's midterm elections. Their votes had significant effects on some of the country's closest-watched races. The probable winners in the Virginia and New Jersey's Senate battles, as well as several House races, owe much of their success to their Asian constituents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-11-02 The Asian-American Vote in Virginia's Hot Senate Race -- The race for the U.S. Senate in Virginia is still a tossup, with polls showing incumbent Republican George Allen neck-and-neck with Democrat Jim Webb. Asian Americans make up four percent of all Virginians, and Pacific Time travels to the Old Dominion State for a look at their impact on next week's election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-10-19 North Korea Sanctions; Congressional Race; Graphic Novel -- The latest from North Korea: What effect will new economic sanctions have on the country's chronic food shortage? Also, a visit to Washington state's 8th District, where Asian Americans are playing a key role in one of the congressional races that might give the Democrats the majority in the House. And, hear from Gene Yang, the author of "American Born Chinese," the first graphic novel ever nominated for a National Book Award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-10-12 Asian Communities, at Home and Abroad, Respond to North Korea's Nuclear Plans -- Asian and Korean-American communities react to North Korea's nuclear maneuvering. Also, Malaysia's former deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim discusses democracy and the Muslim world. Plus, a talk with the professor who holds the first academic chair in studies of the Japanese American internment during World War II. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-10-05 Thailand Looks to Bring Back Democracy -- Pacific Time examines the effort to return democracy to Thailand following the overthrow of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. What are Thai Americans doing to help protect the rights of citizens after the military coup? And in Indonesia, gas exploration leads to a mudslide that threatens thousands of homes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-09-28 China's Real Estate Bubble -- China has experienced a real estate boom in the past few years and prices are still careening upwards. But the bubble may be about to burst. Also, remembering Iva Toguri, who was convicted of broadcasting propaganda for Japan during World War II, and ultimately exonerated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-09-21 Asian American Health Needs Work -- Last week, 600 health professionals and health advocates from across the U.S. and Pacific Islands gathered in San Jose for a three-day summit to celebrate two decades of the Asian Pacific Islander Health Forum's achievements. But time for celebration was cut short when the urgent health needs facing Asian and Pacific Islanders communities simply left too much to do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-09-14 Washington-Seoul Relations Focus on N. Korea -- For the last half-century, South Korea and the U.S. have been allies. But the relationship between the two has lately been difficult. Differences over how to persuade Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program are expected to dominate talks between South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and President Bush. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-09-07 This weekly program focuses on the connections between the United States and the Asian nations and communities of the Pacific Rim. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-08-31 More Asian Americans Living in Poverty than Ever Before -- Despite having one of the highest household incomes, more Asian Americans are living in poverty and without health insurance than ever before. Pacific Time has a closer look, and finds out how this mirrors what is happening to Americans as a whole. Plus, hear how elderly Chinese Americans are overcoming their fear of communism and using their American experiences to help their hometowns back in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-08-31 More Asian Americans Living in Poverty than Ever Before -- Despite having one of the highest household incomes, more Asian Americans are living in poverty and without health insurance than ever before. Pacific Time has a closer look, and finds out how this mirrors what is happening to Americans as a whole. Plus, hear how elderly Chinese Americans are overcoming their fear of communism and using their American experiences to help their hometowns back in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-08-24 Katrina and the Asian American Community: One Year Later -- The show revisits Vietnamese American survivors of Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Miss. to see how they are doing one year after the storm. And as young Korean Americans from Los Angeles hit on road to New Orleans, what are they learning about community building ... and rebuilding? Pacific Time finds out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-08-17 An Asian Presence in Mid East Peacekeeping; How Asian-Americans Vote -- Southeast Asian nations may end up being involved in U.N. peacekeeping forces in Lebanon. Pacific Time looks at which countries are involved. Plus, how do Asian-Americans vote? What influences do they have? One congressman says many Asian-Americans remain loyal to the ideals and values promoted by the Democratic Party. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-08-10 Asian Pop Culture; Filipino Medical Schools -- Asian pop culture is crossing all kinds of geographical, ethnic and financial boundaries. Also, what happens when Filipino Americans go to the Philippines to medical school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-08-03 Burmese Militia Still Strong, Despite Sanctions -- Years of international sanctions and condemnation have done little to change the Burmese militia. Even separatist rebels are giving up their fight. The program looks at why. Also, a look at how Tokyo is helping to refresh the Japanese-American identity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-07-27 ASEAN Leaders Take On Middle East Violence -- The economy is taking a backseat to the ongoing fighting in the Middle East as Southeast Asian foreign ministers convene in Kuala Lumpur for the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) conference this week. And even though Asia might seem far from the violence in Israel and Lebanon, Pacific Time checks in for reactions from the Philippines, Japan and elsewhere. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time2006-07-20 The Career of PM Koizumi -- This week the show takes a look back on the career of Japanese Prime Minster Junichiro Koizumi. Who are the Taiwanese? Most speak Mandarin now. But they might have spoken something entirely different way in the past. The show reports on modern usage for old languages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-07-13 Spotlight on North Korea -- South Korea's sunshine policy was meant to engage its northern neighbor and make Pyongyang more cooperative, but instead it ended up launching some missiles. Pacific Time has an update on that story, plus an examination of where North Korea stands in the scope of human rights for its own citizens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website North Korean Missile Test Fall-Out North Korean Missile Test Fall-Out -- The program presents Asian perspectives on North Korea's recent missile tests. Also, the show investigates how the Chinese government is dealing with citizen self-help groups. Plus, a Filipino woman tells of some of the tough questions she asked herself just before becoming an American citizen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-07-06 North Korean Missile Test Fall-Out -- The program presents Asian perspectives on North Korea's recent missile tests. Also, the show investigates how the Chinese government is dealing with citizen self-help groups. Plus, a Filipino woman tells of some of the tough questions she asked herself just before becoming an American citizen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-06-29 Taiwan President -- Taiwan's President Chen Shui Bien has survived a parliamentary vote to remove him from office, as Caroline Gluck reports from Taipei. The program also looks at the growing popularity of organic food among China's middle-class, as well as Japanese car maker Honda's new assembly plant in Indiana, which has been well received by the American industrial heartland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-06-22 North Korean Skullduggery -- Washington and Seoul disagree about the extent of Pyongyang's drug-selling and money counterfeiting operations. New policies in China reduce the number of babies available for foreign adoption. And Canada's prime minister apologizes to Chinese Canadians for past discrimination. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-06-15 Asian-American Public Affairs -- This weekly program focuses on the connections between the United States and the Asian nations and communities of the Pacific Rim. Today's show looks at intellectual property rights in China and what's hot on the DVD shelves in Beijing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-06-08 Going Green in China -- Twenty million people in the more-remote parts of China don't have electricity at home. Now some of them have bypassed the grid and are using solar power. Also, find out what happened at a Berkeley conference on global warming in China. And shamisen virtuosos The Yoshida Brothers visit the studios to perform and talk about modernizing traditional music in Japan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-06-01 Aftermath in Indonesia -- The show explores the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Yogyakarta, from the standpoint of Indonesians and Indonesian-Americans. Plus, the U.S. State Department reports on human trafficking in Asia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-05-25 Mindanao, Forgotten -- As Americans debate the status of immigrant workers in the U.S., a similar debate is taking place in Taiwan -- where people from the Philippines and Vietnam do the jobs that Taiwanese don't want, and struggle to find their place in society. Also, the forgotten story of Muslim rebellions in Mindanao, and hear the national anthem in Tagalog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-05-18 In Indonesia, A Clash of Sensibilities -- The number of Chinese babies being adopted by American families has decreased. Find out why the reason might be simple economics. Plus, The Indonesian parliament is deciding whether or not it should pass a so-called"anti- pornography"bill. It's aimed to ban and punish not only publications, but also individual behavior that could provoke lust. Also, Indonesia is predominantly Muslim, so Sunday is a time of rest. But some Christians are busy going to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-05-11 Social Morality Laws in Indonesia -- This week, the show takes a look at new conflicts between Christian evangelicals and Muslim authorities in Indonesia. Also, what the new social morality laws there mean. Plus, examining why it's one Chinese American's eighth year in a Shanghai jail, even if he's not found guilty of any wrongdoing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-05-04 Asian Americans and the Immigration Protests; North Korea's Capitalist Experiment; Pramoedya Ananta Toer -- The show looks at the Asian-American presence among the immigration protesters. Also, the second part of the series on South Korean businesses reaching out to North Korea. Plus, remembering a giant author in Indonesia: the extraordinary life and books of Pramoedya Ananta Toer. He died on April 30 at the age of 81. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-04-27 Asian Reactions After Hu's Visit -- This week's show has Asian reactions to Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to the U.S., as well as a look at how Korea, Japan and Hong Kong see the future between China and America. Also, a special examination of human rights in North and South Korea, and the profile of a Japanese musician taking on country-western songs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pacific Time 2006-04-20 President Hu Jintao's Visit -- China's president comes calling. Hu Jintao's visit is designed to reassure Americans about China's rise. Also, a look at how Cambodia is about to start putting some leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge on trial. Plus, the roots of American country music, reinterpreted by a Japanese-born musician in San Francisco. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website