Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
'Restaurant of Mistaken Orders' raises dementia awareness
By  • 24 May 2019
"Work is something that brings back confidence." Shiro Oguni had ordered a hamburger, but he wasn't all that surprised when his server brought him a plate of fried dumplings instead.  The Japanese television director was…
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"One-Child Nation" shows scars of Chinese policy
By  • 23 May 2019
Having a child renewed filmmaker Nanfu Wang's interest in China's one-child policy. In effect from 1979 to 2016, the restrictions on family size halted China's explosive population growth but have left the country with a…
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Nigerian missionary to England highlights changing Christianity
By  • 14 February 2019
"The picture of a missionary is very different today. You have brown missionaries, you have black missionaries, you have refugee missionaries." The earliest Protestant missionaries to what is now Nigeria lived lives of little comfort.…
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'One-child' policy leaves China graying [rebroadcast]
By  • 26 July 2018
A little less than four decades ago China’s population was nearing the 1 billion mark. In 1979 this led the Communist Party to institute the “One-Child Policy” to slow the country’s population growth. That policy…
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China's 'one-child' legacy
By  • 1 March 2018
A little less than four decades ago China’s population was nearing the 1 billion mark. In 1979 this led the Communist Party to institute the “One-Child Policy” to slow the country’s population growth. That policy…
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Art, feminism collide in 'gendercide' exhibit
By  • 18 January 2018
To help explain why her organization spent six years gathering more than 10,000 custom pairs of baby booties from more than 500 seamstresses in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda and 28 other developing countries,  Beverly Hill has a story.  [caption id="attachment_8946" align="alignleft" width="150"] Beverly…
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