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A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling from the BBC. Investigating, reporting and uncovering true stories from everywhere. Award-winning journalism, unheard voices, amazing culture and global issues. From political upheaval in Bangladesh to the plight of undocumented migrants in the US to life under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, The Documentary investigates major global stories. We delve into social media, take you into the minds of the world’s most creative people and explore ...
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A national security and foreign policy podcast from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).
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COMMONS Presents: Inside Kabul INSIDE KABUL is a multi-award winning series that follows the daily life of two young Afghan women, Marwa and Raha. Both have been recording their daily lives since the arrival of the Taliban in August 2021. Should they stay? Leave? And when they leave, what does exile look like? As they contemplate their futures, Raha and Marwa exchange and record hundreds of voice notes with noted French journalist Caroline Gillet. What emerges is a raw and incredibly intimat ...
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A weekly discussion of the geopolitical implications of current events in the Asia-Pacific, hosted by Ankit Panda and Catherine Putz from The Diplomat, with regular guests.
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The one big story. Making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, Monday to Friday, from the BBC. Episodes will be ready by 10:30 GMT. Host Katya Adler and our BBC teams guide you through one major global news story each episode. From Beijing to Boston, Baghdad to Bangalore, our unrivalled reach will take you beyond the headlines to help understand and explore what’s happening. The Global News Podcast brings you the latest updates and, on The Global Story ...
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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.
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Battlegrounds provides a needed forum with leaders from key countries to share their assessment of problem sets and opportunities that have implications for U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy.
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In this biweekly podcast, host Bruce Pannier welcomes expert guests to discuss significant political developments and pressing social issues affecting the nations of Central Asia.
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Eavesdrop on life as it's lived. Earshot brings you intimate stories exploring the human experience.
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Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin. Exploring the important questions about long-running stories and the latest global news. An honest, unvarnished, explanation of the world. Episodes from The Explanation, Unspun World, The Global Jigsaw and The Media Show.
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Undercover Trucker: How I Saved America by Truckin' Towels for the Taliban
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For his second Podiobook, Bill Schmalfeldt goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. His follow-up to the non-fiction "No Doorway Wide Enough" is this fanciful, hilarious narrative, voiced by disgraced, former alcoholic truck driver Billy Big Rig (who can never reveal his real name because everyone wants to kill him) who -- if he is to be believed -- infiltrated a terror cell, went to Afghanistan, and single-handedly saved America from another terror attack in the days after 9/11. Along the w ...
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The longest running independent international affairs podcast features in-depth interviews with policymakers, journalists and experts around the world who discuss global news, international relations, global development and key trends driving world affairs. Named by The Guardian as "a podcast to make you smarter," Global Dispatches is a podcast for people who crave a deeper understanding of international news.
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Exclusive reports, features and analysis of political and social events from across the Asian continent. Friday at 3:45pm Paris time.
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Blood Brothers Podcast is the official podcast of 5Pillars News hosted by journalist Dilly Hussain. The show discusses a plethora of political, religious and socioeconomic issues affecting Muslim communities in the West and the Muslim-majority world with experts, influencers and professionals.
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"Unfinished Business" is both a prequel and sequel to FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone's incredible story of how he infiltrated the mob during the infamous "Donni Brasco" operation. Podcast series chronicles highlights of his decorated career, including never-shared-before stories of Agent Pistone's undercover work overseas. Written by Mark Ramsey and Edward Follis. Produced by P.G. Cuschieri and Mark Ramsey Media. Executive Produced by Christopher Lloyd (Modern Family), Paul Anderson and Nick ...
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Keeping Afghanistan in the spotlight through the stories of its people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Accomplished folks sharing stories of who helped them
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Good questions. Great guests. Few beers... Steve and Seamus like asking good questions. And they love good answers. After over 20 years of friendship, they bought a microphone and started a podcast, allowing them to sit with, and learn from, the most interesting people they can access. From Kiwi legend Marc Ellis, to media personalities Jeremy Wells and Paddy Gower, Rugby coach extraordinaire Wayne Smith, sexologist Morgan Penn, and Olympian Dame Lisa Carrington... Between Two Beers has prod ...
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Have you missed the biggest news of the week? Olly Mann and The Week’s writers and editors talk about under-reported stories with long-term consequences
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Director Davis Guggenheim discusses the documentary about Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen who won the Nobel Peace Prize after being shot by the Taliban.
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South Asia Chat podcast series will feature conversations with analysts, academics and thought leaders on topical issues impacting South Asia.
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The Afghan Eye is an independent, Afghan-led platform dedicated to Afghans reclaiming and leading the discussion on Afghanistan. We critique and provide a counter-narrative to all issues Afghan.
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Occult, History, Conspiracy, Violence. Host, Jon Towers pours a giant drink and tackles topics weekly. Sometimes dark, sometimes mysterious but always entertaining. Jon presents the information in a conversational but edgy tone and struggles to add context and often levity to these examinations of dark magic, the mysteries hidden in dusty old books, forgotten myths, unknown stories of our past, politics and pop-culture and plots from secret organizations and elites. In realms (occultism and ...
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Based On A True Story. JAM Nation captures the best moments from Brendan 'Jonesy' Jones & Amanda Keller's award-winning show.
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Join host Tushar Shetty every month as he and expert guests delve deep into one of the world's most culturally diverse, economically vibrant, and politically chaotic regions: South Asia.
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Reporting on crime and drugs, cops and gangster politics, guerrillas and psychadelics, and the people who live and die through it all, with journalist Ioan Grillo
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Authors talking to David Freeman about their books. Most of the conversations are from David’s personal archive that have been collected over the past 40 years.
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Historische Interviews mit Schrifttsteller:innen, Philosoph:innen, Aktivist:innen und Intellektuellen aus aller Welt. Historical interviews with writers, philosophers, activists and intellectuals from around the world. Entretiens historiques avec des écrivains, des philosophes, des activistes et des intellectuels du monde entier. مقابلات تاريخية مع كتاب وفلاسفة ونشطاء ومثقفين من جميع أنحاء العالم. مصاحبه های تاریخی با نویسندگان، فیلسوفان، فعالان و روشنفکران از سراسر جهان.
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Listen as Podcast host Joy Votrobek and Sr. Analyst Laurence Sanford bring you podcasts and briefs on national security with an emphasis on ”Peace through Strength.”
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The speed of the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan in August 2021 took the world by surprise. Now there is uncertainty and fear among many Afghans - what will Taliban rule look like? What will become of their country? The Taliban took control of Kabul just weeks before the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the event that led to the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 and the Taliban’s fall. It was hoped this would be a new beginning, bringing peace to a country that had known nothing but war ...
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LTEC is a show giving you the peoples voice over suits, covering autonomous groups, conflict and geopolitics. A 5thGen: Information Warfare project.
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Across the world, from Europe to Asia, the Americas to the Middle East, tensions are rising between nation states. Traditional alliances and alignments are constantly evolving in the 21st century. An understanding of defence and security policy and the tides of political, social and economic changes is crucial for any informed understanding of our world. 2024 sees war in Europe and Israel, and elections in major economies, including the US, the UK, Taiwan, South Africa, and many others. Insu ...
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Intersectional feminist, Madigan, takes on issues facing women and the world.
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John Stryker Meyer, call sign--Tilt, hosts untold stories of the operations of MAC-V SOG. Vietnam. The Secret War.
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Local, national and international interviews with activists on human rights, civil liberties and animal welfare issues. The show has been on air since the late 1980s.
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A podcast from SWI swissinfo.ch, a multilingual international public service media company from Switzerland, where Imogen Foulkes puts big questions facing the world to the experts working to tackle them in Switzerland’s international city.
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In 2011, veteran and journalist Elliott Woods embedded with the twelve Marines of Third Squad in one of the most violent parts of Afghanistan at the height of the war against the Taliban. Only eleven of the twelve would make it home. A decade later—with America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan looming—Elliott goes on a cross-country road trip to track down the Third Squad survivors, to talk about the war and coming home, and to ask: What was it all for? And where do we go from here? Thi ...
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Some of the best and most intense real-life stories make the greatest shows. In our SIX AFTER SHOW we cover the true story of Navy SEAL Team 6 who had the task of eliminating a Taliban leader in Afghanistan. Things get complicated when they discover an American citizen is working against them, so you’ll want to make sure to catch our after show to keep up with the extreme storyline.
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Simply News has released a new show: ”Simply Politics, from China”. This podcast is a daily news show covering articles about U.S. politics that are written in Mandarin for Chinese audiences. The podcast is fully AI-generated, with a team of AI news agents working together to find stories, translate articles, and produce the show.
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Podcasts from Himal Southasian – Southasia's magazine of politics and culture, since 1987.
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How are Afghanistan’s women and girls coping with harsh new restrictions? When the Taliban took back power in 2021, it promised to uphold women’s rights with the limits of what it called “Islamic law”. But officials have placed strict limits on women’s education, employment opportunities, dress codes and, now, even the volume at which they speak. I…
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Battlegrounds w/ H.R. McMaster: Afghanistan Under Taliban Tyranny: A Conversation With Adela Raz | Hoover Institution
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In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and Adela Raz discuss the humanitarian catastrophe and systemic human rights abuses under Taliban rule, the lessons and consequences of the collapse of the Afghanistan Republic, and the future of Afghanistan and its diaspora. Join former Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United …
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EU Urges Political Solution for Gaza Crisis, Mold’s Support for Harris, Central Asian Countries Engage with Taliban
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EU officials emphasize the necessity of a political solution to the crisis in Gaza. The impact of Mold's public support for Harris on the US election. Central Asian countries establish relations with the Taliban. Stay informed about the evolving dynamics in international politics with Simply Politics. Sources: https://www.news.cn/photo/20240910/9e1…
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🇦🇫 Taliban Bans 'Even The Sound Of A Female Voice' In Public Across Afghanistan
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Ravina Shamdasani joins Jonesy & Amanda with the latest on what's happening with the Taliban. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeart Australia & WSFM
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Treatment of Women and Girls by the Taliban
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This week, Madigan took a deep dive into the history of the treatment of women and girls under rule of the Taliban. Please be warned, there will be discussion of violence against women in this episode, as well as discussion of abuse against children, and sexual abuse, which may not be suitable for all listeners. To listen to more, join me on Patreo…
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Deborah Ellis - The Breadwinner : A book for children about about the life of a girl in Afghanistan living under Taliban rules.
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This interview was recorded in 2001 and in the introduction recorded at the time I say that the story is no longer relevant as the Taliban are no longer in charge. This was true at the time but sadly the Taliban are back and the the story of The Breadwinner is all too relevant again. Did the UK let these people down?…
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163. Mic Drop: From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the Internet
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Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership may have smashed TVs in the 1990s, but these days their embracing slickly-produced videos and social media influencers to try to rehab their image abroad. Afghan anthropologist Omar Sharifi unpacks whether its working.By Recorded Future News
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9/11 In Context Pt5: …And The Taliban Goes Rolling Along!
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We look at the abandoning of Bagram Airfield, Kabul, Afghanistan, our Afghan allies and United States citizens. We look at the civilian heroes who went to work to rescue people, the military heroes who died / injured and the hundreds of Afghans that were blown up. We discuss what kind of equipment was left to the Taliban and we also talk about the …
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China's Belt and Road Initiative stretches physically with infrastructure projects across the globe, but there is one initiative that is the most ambitious yet - The Space Silk Road. The space race is heating up with new entrants like India and private companies like SpaceX, but it is the Chinese who are set to dominate by 2045. Central to the Spac…
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Special episode: Hezbollah pager blasts explained
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More blasts have been reported in Lebanon, after a series of pagers exploded across the country. In what appears to be a highly sophisticated attack, devices used by the armed group Hezbollah were targeted, and the operation has captivated the security community. Hezbollah blames Israel, with which they have been exchanging cross-border fire for mo…
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Sudan has suffered a brutal conflict that has killed nearly 20,000 people, displaced over 10 million, and left around 25 million facing acute hunger. Sudan's cities have been turned into battlefields. Fighting has been marked by mass rape and murder, hospitals have been attacked, one in five people have now fled their homes, and cholera is on the r…
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The Iranian government is not coy about its silence tactics. Since Iran's Woman Life Freedom Movement began on 16 September 2022, unlawful executions, imprisonment, physical and sexual abuse has dominated headlines across the globe. It is estimated that tens of thousands of people have received some form of government retribution – and at the heart…
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Johnny, Rocky and Rambo were performers in the world’s last travelling dolphin circus and inside a Bali hotel swimming pool. This is the story of the fight to shut the circus down and the long journey to try to return the performing dolphins to the ocean. We hear why the world’s most famous dolphin trainer changed sides - playing a role instead in …
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US election: Do celebrity endorsements work?
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Can Taylor Swift and Elon Musk swing the vote for Harris or Trump? From Billie Eilish to Oprah, Hulk Hogan to Kid Rock, the rich and famous are lining up behind the 2024 presidential candidates. But will Americans vote the way their favourite celebrities tell them too? Or is it all just window dressing for the presidential campaigns? In this episod…
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Chinese Online Propaganda, Dimon on Fed’s Impact and Geopolitical Concerns
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Chinese water military theft of Dutch cartoonists X platform promotes Beijing political propaganda. Xiaomo CEO, Jamie Dimon, discusses the limited impact of the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut and expresses more concern about geopolitical conflicts. Sources: https://www.voachinese.com/a/china-x-spamouflage-20240917/7788164.html https://finance.…
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Reacting to Matt Heath Leaving Radio Hauraki & Backlash From Luxon Decision
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Steve and Seamus discuss Matt Heath's move away from breakfast radio, the feedback they received from their 'Luxon decision', why Steve's five-year-old is the fastest in his family, NZ's most epic untold business stories, recent episodes with Matiu Walters from Six 60 and the most interesting developments from their Business channel. See omnystudio…
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Sir Martin Gilbert - Never Again - history of the Holocaust
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on December 10th 1948. We now live in a world where the rights agreed in that document are widely ignored and some politicians openly seek to remove the UK from enforcing them. Plus racial intolerance is on the march . The horrible spectre of antisemitism is looming over the news as is denial of…
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Xi Jinping’s Confucianism Revival and Human Rights Crisis in Cuba
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Will Confucianism make a comeback in Xi Jinping's China? Explore the intersection of political ideology and cultural heritage. Plus, uncover the shocking human rights crisis in Cuba with over 1,100 political prisoners suffering from hunger, illness, and torture. Sources: https://chinese.aljazeera.net/news/political/2024/9/15/%e5%84%92%e5%ae%b6%e6%8…
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Can the UN's Summit for the Future tackle today’s toughest challenges?
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Send us a text This month the United Nations (UN) will host the ‘Summit of the Future’ in New York. What's the point of this high-level event? Inside Geneva investigates. “The UN is not an entity that does anything. I mean, we can all blame it, but what is the UN? It’s just the sum of its parts: the governments,” says Christiane Oelrich, journalist…
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166. The curious case of Esma Memtimin’s disappearing TikTok videos
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TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules even though her videos were about stickers and current events. A recent study from Rutgers University suggests Memtimin isn’t alone — when researchers compared TikTok’s content with other similar platforms there is a mysterious dearth of posts about subjec…
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Since Madigan probably broke her tailbone this past weekend, there isn't a brand new episode ready, but, in this special Bonus, you will hear about the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and learn about the attempted shooter, Ryan Routh, and his political past. To listen to more, join me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborh…
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Assignment: Ageing without a safety net in Malaysia
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Industrialisation, modern cityscapes and strong economic growth promote an image of a youthful, vigorous Malaysia. But the country is now ageing rapidly, and this sudden transformation seems to have caught many - including the government - by surprise: Despite their country’s development, millions have little or no retirement income and face destit…
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Violent unrest is forcing Ireland to reckon with increasing hostility to high levels of immigration, which has not traditionally been a major point of political debate. That is changing, however, with roughly one in five Irish residents today born overseas. The country is grappling with a burgeoning far right movement, with much of the conversation…
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Confucianism in Xi Jinping’s China, People’s Congress System, and Zhongnanhai’s Governance
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Will Confucianism make a comeback in Xi Jinping's China? Explore the intersection of political ideology and cultural heritage. Learn about the People's Congress system and its significance in China's political development. Plus, delve into Zhongnanhai's governance and the ongoing reforms. Stay informed on the latest developments in Chinese politics…
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State of Southasia #09: Anna M M Vetticad on the gender reckoning in Malayalam cinema
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On 19 August, the government of the Indian state of Kerala released 233 pages of a report on gender discrimination in the Malayalam language film industry based in the state. The government released the report six years after it was commissioned and more than four years after it was first submitted. The report has come to be called the Hema Committ…
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Why Decoupling Between the US and China is a Global Problem (With a Global Solution) | Live from the World Trade Organization
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Today's episode was recorded live at the World Trade Organization's headquarters in Geneva. The live taping coincided with the WTO's "Public Forum," a week-long gathering of civil society at the WTO's headquarters. It's a major event, with around 5,000 people registered from around the world, attending a series of meetings, workshops, speeches, pan…
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Peruvian singer Lenin Tamayo has been dubbed the founder of ‘Q-pop’. He combines traditional Andean folk music with K-pop inspired instrumentation and dance. His songs mix Quechua – one of Peru’s indigenous languages, and the official tongue of the Inca Empire – and Spanish. Lenin first launched his career when his videos went viral on TikTok. Now,…
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Russia’s longtime influence in Central Asia seemed to fade after the launch of its full-scale war on Ukraine in February 2022, as other countries pursued stronger relations with Central Asian states and active roles in lucrative projects. The Kremlin noticed and has countered with its own initiatives, of which the most binding may be a series of re…
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Matiu Walters on Six60’s Unexpected Success, Conflicts, Criticism & Chaotic Dunedin Origins
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Matiu Walters is the lead singer and guitarist of New Zealand’s band Six60. The group formed in Dunedin in 2008, and across the last 16 years have broken all the rules to become New Zealand’s biggest band. In 2019 they became the first New Zealand act to sell out Western Springs and in 2021 became the first band to ever play Eden Park to a sold-out…
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Xi Jinping’s Confucianism Revival and Political Ideology in China
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Will Confucianism make a comeback in China in Xi Jinping's hands? Explore the intersection of political ideology and cultural heritage in contemporary China, and the potential implications for the country's future direction. Plus, get insights into the upcoming debate between Vice President He Jinli and former President Trump, and its impact on the…
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Here's what you missed on Jonesy & Amanda this week! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By iHeart Australia & WSFM
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Solutions Journalism: The African 'Babelfish'
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Africa is home to around one-third of the world's languages, but only a smattering of them are available online and in translation software. So when young Beninese computer scientist Bonaventure Dossou, who was fluent in French, experienced difficulties communicating with his mother, who spoke the local language Fon, he came up with an idea. Bonave…
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Why are exams so stressful? Chinese journalists Wanqing Zhang and Eric Junzhe share personal memories about the infamous Gaokao exam in China, which this year reached a record of 13.42 million applicants; and India correspondent Soutik Biswas reports on the exam scandals threatening the future of millions of young people in India. Plus: why do we h…
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Did the Harris-Trump debate actually change voters' minds? Caitríona Perry, Sumi Somaskanda, and Katty Kay discuss the state of the 2024 US election, explore what’s happening behind the scenes of the campaigns, and provide insights into how both voters and candidates are preparing for election day. From now until the US election, every weekend The …
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