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  • Manu Minute: 'Ua'u, The Seabird
    The 'ua'u belongs to the expansive Procellariidae family, which encompasses over 50 species of petrels. These seabirds can be found across all of the…
  • Iraqis buy ice blocks at a factory in Sadr City, east of the capital, Baghdad, on July 2 amid power outages and soaring temperatures.
    July Was The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History
    The global combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, according to NOAA, the hottest in 142 years of record-keeping.
  • Members of the Russian Olympic Committee practice during a scheduled speedskating session at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
    Asia Minute: The boycott battles of the Beijing Olympics are already underway
    The Beijing Olympics open at the end of this week, but the publicity battles are already well underway. The United States government is leading a diplomatic boycott of the games — but China’s government says leaders from 25 other countries will attend Friday’s opening ceremonies. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.
  • Vieux Farka Toure (left) and Idan Raichel, collaborating as The Toure-Raichel Collective, released <em>The Tel-Aviv Session </em>on March 26.
    The Toure-Raichel Collective: A Collaboration By Accident
    A chance meeting in a German airport resulted in a CD collaboration between Israeli pop star Idan Raichel and Vieux Farka Toure, the guitarist from Mali. The result, The Tel Aviv Session, is magic.
  • Hurricane Fiona damaged Puerto Rico's plantain crops, like this field in Guánica, Puerto Rico.
    Fiona destroyed most of Puerto Rico's plantain crops — a staple for people's diet
    Bananas, papaya and coffee were also affected, according to Puerto Rico's agriculture secretary. The plantain is one of the island's top commodities — and a key ingredient in many traditional dishes.
  • Protesters show the three finger salute and hold photos of detained Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in July outside the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok during a demonstration against the Myanmar military junta's execution of four prisoners.
    Aung San Suu Kyi is convicted again in Myanmar, alongside an Australian adviser
    The former prime minister was sentenced to three years for violating the official secrets act, on top of a 20-year sentence already handed down by the military junta that took power in 2021.
  • Career Survey: Actuary Is No. 1 Job
    People who measure risk and uncertainty ranked in the top spot of the survey by CareerCast.com. At the bottom of the list with reporters are flight attendants, roofers, mail carriers, meter readers, dish washers and lumber jacks.
  • In this frame from video, packets of instant noodles sit on display in the Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama, Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Leicester)
    Asia Minute: Ramen prices are rising across the Asia-Pacific
    Food inflation is hitting the prices of everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to meat. It’s also affecting the price of instant noodles — especially in the Asia Pacific. HPR’s Bill Dorman has an update on that story in this Asia Minute.
  • Clockwise from upper left: Superorganism, MILCK, serpentwithfeet, Haley Heynderickx, Jorja Smith
    Your Favorite New Artists Of 2018 (So Far)
    Many of your favorite musicians of 2018 (so far) defy genres and expectations, from the idiosyncratic wonder of Superorganism to the stirring, swirling ballads of serpentwithfeet.
  • Asia Minute: Asian passports packing power in 2022
    It’s a busy travel summer in many parts of the country, and that includes Hawaiʻi. While most visitors here are coming from the West and East coasts of the United States, there’s some news this week about international travel. And HPR’s Bill Dorman has it in this Asia Minute.
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