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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Next, a New Year's toast from a bartender in the most populated city of the most populated country on the planet. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Shanghai. ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: The bartender's name is spelled M-O-E. (SOUNDBITE OF T

美国国家公共电台 NPR Chinese Leaders Leverage Media To Shape How The World Perceives China

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's continue our series on how China is trying to influence the world. This is being felt across the globe today in many ways. But what China's leaders really want is to shape how the world perceives their country. They've devot

美国国家公共电台 NPR As China's Coal Mines Close, Miners Are Becoming Bolder In Voicing Demands

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: China's economy has had a spectacular run. But last year, it grew at its slowest pace in 26 years. And as it attempts to transform an economy based on building things to one based on consumers buying things, Beijing is making pai

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美国国家公共电台 NPR In A Heated Campaign Season, French Politicians Flock To Paris Farm Fair

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Imagine an election-year Iowa State Fair but in the center of Paris. You know, instead of fried butter, you've got fried escargot. That is the scene in Paris now. And NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that, much like the Iowa fair,

美国国家公共电台 NPR Doctors In China Lead Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes

Doctors In China Lead Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The new genetic engineering technique known as CRISPR is revolutionizing scientific research and stirring up a whole lot of excitement about new ways to treat diseases.

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Young Rohingya Mom: Pregnant, Stateless, Living In Limbo

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There are more than 130 officially recognized ethnic minority groups in Myanmar. Each has its own culture, even language. The Rohingya Muslims are not one of them. Myanmar's government won't grant them citizenship. Its leaders won'

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Egypt, A Rising Sea — And Growing Worries About Climate Change's Effects

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The effects of climate change move slowly, but they are broad. WEEKEND EDITION is taking a look at these effects around the world. NPR's Jane Araff went to the ancient city of Alexandria in northern Egypt, where rising sea

美国国家公共电台 NPR More Civilians Than ISIS Fighters Are Believed Killed In Mosul Battle

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: There's been an important unanswered question about the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul even five months after it ended. How many civilians were killed as U.S. and Iraqi forces launched their intensive air and ground assault agai

美国国家公共电台 NPR In Southwest China, A 'Very Large Eyeball' Peers Into Deep Space

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美国国家公共电台 NPR For Iraqi Families With ISIS Links, Agonizing Choices — And Consequences

AILSA CHANG, HOST: When the Iraqi army liberated her village from ISIS, Hamda Mahmoud made an agonizing choice. She handed over to Iraqi security forces her own son, who had joined ISIS. She fears her teenager's been executed. And now, as NPR's Jane

美国国家公共电台 NPR Le Pen Finds Support In Pro-Europe French City

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now to France, where the polls show a tight race in the upcoming presidential election. Among the subjects dividing the population is membership in the European Union. The EU is still very popular in France, but righ

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'I Was Shocked By Freedom': Defectors Reflect On Life In North Korea

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: North Korea is one of the most secretive regimes in the world. Its leader demands unquestioning loyalty from its citizens. NPR's Lauren Frayer had a chance to hear about what it's like living under those circumstances from the peop

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Dying Japanese Village Brought Back To Life — By Scarecrows

A Dying Japanese Village Brought Back To Life By Scarecrows DAVID GREENE, HOST: In Japan, you sometimes hear this term, village on the edge. What it means is a village on the edge of extinction. Japan's population is fast declining. It's easy to find

美国国家公共电台 NPR As Assault On Mosul Looms, Resistance Grows — And ISIS Grows More Brutal

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美国国家公共电台 NPR How Many Houses Did Hurricane Leave Standing In Port Salut, Haiti?

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Uh-Oh, Germany Is Rapidly Running Out Of Beer Bottles

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Germany, where beer consumption is up - beer consumption is up as temperatures remain unusually high. This is a climate change story in a sense, I suppose. And it's good and bad news for the beer industry. While the breweries hav

美国国家公共电台 NPR South Koreans Prepare For Rare Family Reunions With Long-Lost Relatives In The North

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Time now for this weekend's Long Listen - imagine living for nearly 70 years knowing your mom, dad, maybe brothers and sisters live just a few hours away across the most heavily fortified border in the world. Tensions are e

美国国家公共电台 NPR For A North Korean Defector Turned Journalist, Warming Ties Are Cause For Worry

NOEL KING, HOST: The leaders of North and South Korea met three times in 2018. That was unprecedented. But during all of this diplomacy, people who have actually lived under the North Korean regime, defectors, have urged some caution. From Seoul, NPR

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Birds Of Passage,' A New Lens On The Narcotrafficking Drama

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The decadeslong drug war in Colombia has fueled a whole genre of movies and TV shows. Think men with guns wearing crisp suits in the tropical heat, like in the Netflix series Narcos. A new film from Colombia shows another ver