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Earth Day Interview: China is 'Green Like Dollars, Not Like the Environment'

A Chinese worker piles up the plastic bottles collected at a recycling center in Hefei, east China's Anhui province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Sustainability

For Earth Day, we met up with Shanghai-based environmental journalist Adam Minter in New York's Central Park. 

April 22nd by Dan Washburn | Comments

Infographic: Should Young Americans Learn Chinese?

Education

English is the most used language in the world, but are Americans at a linguistic disadvantage?

April 22nd by Grace Norman | Comments

Interview: Gordon G. Chang on Chongqing's 'Magic' and China's Coming 'Economic Turbulence'

Pedestrians pass a courtyard between high-rise apartments in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on January 28, 2011. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Business

The author and Forbes.com columnist moderates a discussion at Asia Society in New York entitled "Western China: China's Real Estate Frontier – The Development of Chongqing" on April 27, 2011.

April 22nd by Dan Washburn | Comments

What Greg Mortenson Got Right

Roger Lemoyne/UN (Creative Commons)
Education

Scandal tarnishes a reputation, but the 'Three Cups of Tea' author was clear about what matters most.

April 21st by Grace Norman | Comments

Video: Small Hands Go to Work to Help Japan

Lifestyle

See how schoolchildren at P.S. 154 in Brooklyn, New York, participating in Students Rebuild's Paper Cranes for Japan project, got to work folding paper cranes.

April 21st by Eleise Jones | Comments

NPR: Do Asians Lack the Charisma to Lead?

Is former Washington governor — and future Ambassador to China — Gary Locke the exception to the rule? (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)
Education

University of California-Riverside psychology professor Thomas Sy discusses his recent study that identifies stereotypes that exist in the American workplace.

April 20th by Dan Washburn | Comments

Boston Globe Art Critic Sebastian Smee Wins Pulitzer Prize

<i>Boston Globe</i> art critic Sebastien Smee speaking in the <i>Globe</i> newsroom on Apr. 18, 2011. (Boston.com)
Arts

Sebastian Smee, art critic for The Boston Globe, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism yesterday.

April 19th by Elaine Merguerian | Comments

Asia Society on PBS: How to fix America’s education system?

Vishakha Desai on PBS.
Education

Asia Society President Vishakha Desai was one of six experts interviewed recently for a segment on PBS's weekly Need to Know program.

April 19th by Dan Washburn | Comments

Three Asia Society projects honored in 15th Annual Webby Awards

Lifestyle

The China Boom Project, Homeland Afghanistan and Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool were all Official Honorees in the Oscars of the internet.

April 18th by Dan Washburn | Comments

Abdullah Abdullah: 'Current Government in Afghanistan' US's Main Challenge

Abdullah Abdullah. (Shah Marrai/AFP/Getty Images)
Policy

Asia Society Associate Fellow and former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah spoke at the Asia Society in Washington, DC, on Monday, April 11, 2011.

April 15th by Dan Washburn | Comments
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