Asia | KUNC

Business

Farmers Looking For New Markets Worry They鈥檙e Losing Out On Trade

Kristofor Husted

President Trump made campaign promises to pull the U.S. out of big international trade deals and focus instead on one-on-one agreements with other鈥�

Arts & Life

How A Rescue From A South Korean Dog Meat Farm Ended Up In Fort Collins

Stacy Nick

Frodo, Larimer County鈥檚 newest refugee, is nervously pacing the fence line of the Larimer Humane Society鈥檚 play yard. The society鈥檚 behaviorist, Kate鈥�

President Obama and superintendent of the Military Academy, Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr., take the Pledge of Allegiance at the West Point graduation ceremony on Wednesday. In an interview with NPR, President Obama said U.S. foreign policy should focus more on diplomatic efforts than on large-scale military operations.

NPR 暗黑爆料

More Diplomacy, Fewer Military Missions: 5 Obama Statements Explained

Greg Myre

In a wide-ranging interview with NPR, the president says U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century should focus on diplomacy and counterterrorism rather than large-scale military operations.

Muslim Rohingya women are pictured at the Thae Chaung camp for internally displaced people in Sittwe, Myanmar, on April 22. The stateless Rohingya in western Myanmar have been confined to the camps since violence erupted with majority Buddhists in 2012. The camps rely on international aid agencies, but still lack adequate food and health care.

NPR 暗黑爆料

In Buddhist-Majority Myanmar, Muslim Minority Gets Pushed To The Margins

Anthony Kuhn

As Myanmar has opened up its political system, it has unleashed long-suppressed tensions. The Rohingya Muslims have been hard hit, with many driven from their homes and now confined to camps.

Vincent Mourou, co-founder of Vietnam's first artisan chocolate maker Marou, inspects cacao beans at a farmer's garden in Go Cong Tay district.

NPR 暗黑爆料

Slowly And Sweetly, Vietnam's Chocolate Industry Grows

Amy Guttman

French colonists planted cacao in Vietnam in the 1800s, but the crop was outpaced by coffee and cashews. Now French expats are helping the country become a respected producer of high-end chocolate.

NPR's Jackie Northam on the Maersk McKinney Moller, a new container megaship that can carry about double what many other big cargo ships can carry. It's 20 stories high and four football fields long.

NPR 暗黑爆料

Hitching A Ride On The World's Biggest Cargo Ship

Jackie Northam

Launched in August, the Maersk McKinney Moller is the first of a new class of megaships. It's 20 stories high and a quarter-mile long. NPR's Jackie Northam hopped on board in Poland.

Cannonball jellyfish soak up the sun on a South Carolina beach. Fishermen are now pursuing the pest that used to clog their shrimping nets.

NPR 暗黑爆料

Southern Fishermen Cash In On Asia's Taste For Jellyfish

Alastair Bland

After the worst year for shrimping in recent memory, fishermen in the Southeast U.S. say they're thankful to catch jellyfish for the Asian market. But conservationists say the expanding jellyfish fishery is a sign of the ocean's decline.

In May, a large piece of the General Motors Building in Manhattan was purchased by a Chinese real estate developer.

NPR 暗黑爆料

Asian Investors Find Hot Market In U.S. Properties

Jackie Northam

Sales in commercial real estate in the U.S. have soared over the past year. Asian nations, particularly China, are scooping up trophy properties and investing in some large, long-term development projects at a record pace.

A van believed to be carrying fallen politician Bo Xilai arrives at court in eastern China's Shandong province.

NPR 暗黑爆料

Bo Xilai's Life Sentence Reveals China's Leadership Problem

Anthony Kuhn

A court found former top Chinese official Bo Xilai guilty of corruption after one of the highest-profile political trials of recent years. Media coverage of the earlier court hearings transfixed audiences with details of murder, a love triangle, and lavish official life styles.

A police officer blocks photos from being taken outside Zhongnanhai, the central headquarters for the Communist Party of China, in Beijing last year.

NPR 暗黑爆料

China's Debate: Must The Party Follow The Constitution?

Frank Langfitt

If you demand democracy in China, you can quickly find yourself at odds with the government. So these days, reformers are trying to use the constitution to make the party accountable to the people. But that didn't keep a Shanghai professor from getting suspended.