Past Episodes: December 2010 Archives
Thursday December 30, 2010
December 30 & Jan 2: from Kibera, Kenya - Montevideo, Uruguay - Dublin, Ireland - New York
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A scene from "Togetherness Supreme", a film about people caught up in post-election violence in Kenya (photo/David McDougall) |
Art imitates dangerous life in Kenya, where political violence lies dormant, but deadly.
How Ireland's Celtic Tiger got to be one sick cat. A new book predicts the Irish economy will be a zombie for years to come.
Why Big Tobacco is taking on an entire country in Latin America.
And possession of cocaine got Amir Amma 25-to-life, a sentence seemingly more suited to murder. But times are changing in New York, and so is he.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Americas, Europe, Past Episodes
Wednesday December 22, 2010
December 23 & 26: from Pakistan - Peja, Kosovo - Hawaii - New York
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A hula dancer performs a traditional Hawaiian dance at the nightly torch-lighting and hula show held at sunset on Kuhio Beach in Waikiki in Honolulu. By Marco Garcia, AP |
Think you know hula? You don't know hula. "Pops" Pilippo, he knows hula. And he'll teach you to dance it with integrity.
Women living a man's life. Meet the "burnesh" of the Balkans. Women who lead their lives as men.
Could you live on $2 a day? You'll be surprised how many do.
Are you a burger or a bun? In Pakistan you're be called one or the other depending on what you eat.
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Thursday December 16, 2010
December 16 & 19: from Haiti - Moscow - Cambodia - South Africa
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Haitian crowds surge along Champs de Mars Blvd. near the presidential palace. Photo/David Gutnick CBC |
Moonshine, machetes and mayhem: Our correspondent's end notes from the crisis in Haiti.
Moscow vs. the mosque: a religious dispute mirrors new tensions between Russia and its Muslims.
Exporting children: why Cambodians are keen to put their kids to work in another country.
Xenophobia South Africa: The director of a new film about moral choices and mob violence against foreigners.
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Thursday December 9, 2010
December 9 & 12: from Kabul - Goma, DRC - Monrovia, Liberia - Honduras - Vigo, Spain - Los Angeles
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| Rewti Arjunan, Indian police officer and member of landmark all-female peacekeeping unit in Liberia, teaching martial arts to teenage boys in Monrovia (photo/Bonnie Allen). |
The Afghan workaround: how to play the system when the system doesn't work.
The killing of a Canadian off Honduras raises questions about the security behind all that sun and sand.
And we're on patrol with one of the world's only female peacekeeping units, in a country where police are considered too dangerous to be given guns.
All that and something new under the sun. It's got new management.
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Wednesday December 1, 2010
December 2 & 5: from Jerusalem - China - Bogota, Colombia - Kabul
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Israeli M.K. Danny Danon favours more laws to compel non Jews to swear loyalty to the Jewish State. |
Is it racism or real politik? Why Israel's loyalty oath upsets Jews and Arabs alike.
As China goes, so goes the world: The author of a new book warns Chinese consumers are transforming everything.
Kidnap radio: So many are held hostage in Colombia their families have their own radio program. Our correspondent's father was one of them.
One-legged bandits? Afghanistan's war-wounded set up a roadside pension plan, though some might call it extortion.
Rikileaks: Rick dishes some diplomatic indiscretions you won't find in Wikileaks.
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