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This week on the Global News Partnership:

A Street Vendor in Nepal sells  handcarved musical instruments that sound like a voice … Peasants build robots in China, and display them in a new exhibit … The new trend in tourism, visiting slums and villages … When our assumptions about people we meet while traveling get turned on their head … A drug habit in Yemen may make the city’s water supply run dry … Tour guide training in India … Finding the last player of the memm … An audio postcard from a sunset camel market in Nigeria.

NOTE: This is the last World Vision Report. In September, the Global News Partnership will bring you a new show with a new name. Latitudes - local voices telling global stories - will be available beginning September 2011. Produced by the Global News Partnership with WAMU (Washington DC) and North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC.

For further information, please contact Susan Shepherd.

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This week on Global News Partnership:

A women’s center in Kabul attracts all ages … Male midwives meet a need in Liberia … Farming dilemma — grow crops for food or fuel … A farm in Indonesia that’s also a school … Cutting wood for a living in Nepal … Flowers to eat in Mexico … The music of Emmanuel Jal … Treat from Sicily: Spleen sandwich.

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This week on Global News Partnership:

Finding food for a billion really hungry people in the world … Selling sticks to make a living in Sierra Leone … Funding entrepreneurs who offer novel ways of solving old problems … Families where prostitution is an every day job … A first visit to the Ganges River … A popcorn vendor in China

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This week on Global News Partnership:

An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… Teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats … Being hijacked by a desperate woman … music from Africa.

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This week on the Global News Partnership:

Making money off the Mafia in Sicily… Where Coke goes in Africa, so goes medicine… Coffee growers and “fair trade”… Coffee cooperatives generate income and peace… The single and pregnant stigma in South Korea… A purple berry from the Amazon booms onto the global market… Music from the Arctic Circle.

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This week, the World Vision Report talks with one of the so-called “lost boys of Sudan” who helped build a medical clinic there.  It’s the only medical facility in an area about the size of Connecticut.

And it could be that seafood dinner you plan tonight was caught and processed with slave labor.

Those stories and more – on this week’s show from the Global News Partnership.

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This week on the Global News Partnership:

Women run the businesses in Somalialand’s capital … Garbage picking as an occupation in Mexico … Children at the checkpoint in Israel … Your mechanic in Pakistan is 8-years old … The music of Angelique Kidjo … Boxing’s enduring popularity in Nigeria … The hidden diseases of the poor in the U.S. … A black market in passports in a country no one recognizes … An audio postcard from churches in Liberia.

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-When telegrams became a piece of history, Western Union almost went out of business. The company saved itself by becoming the world’s largest money transfer system, now worth billions.

-New York Times reporter Jason DeParle talks with host Peggy Wehmeyer about the transformation of Western Union, which has more offices around the world than McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, and Burger King combined.