A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.

Watch the full episode of Crossing Heaven's Border, and travel with North Korean defectors who make the life-threatening journey to freedom in South Korea.

Every refugee has a story. Here are nine of them, from Iraq, Tibet, Burma, Cuba, Congo and Rwanda.

A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.

In this lesson, students will use video segments from China Prep to examine the culture of a Chinese prep school as its graduating class studies for the national college entrance exam. Contained within are lesson activities as well as video segments which can be used on their own or in conjunction with the lesson.

A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.

North and South Korea share a language and a peninsula, but they're two very different countries. This slideshow compares daily life in the two countries.

Though stopping short of outright privatization, the reform will allow farmers, who make up more than 55% of China’s total population, to subcontract, lease and transfer land-use rights.

In Russia, the tragic sense is not limited to Chekhovian intellectuals or tyranny's victims. Even the privileged few, insulated by high office and a pride of bodyguards, know the truth when they care to look out a Kremlin window.

Two days after the war in Korea began, the U.S., worried that it would "lose" Korea like China to communists, took the matter to the UN Security Council.

North Korea's roots lie deep in Korean history.

(September 11, 2003) This documentary tells the story of two teenage girls and their families as the girls prepare to participate in North Korea's Mass Games, an intricately choreographed display celebrating North Korea's statehood and revolutionary zeal in one of the last surviving Communist showcase pageants.