January 2, 2015 • 28m
A social entrepreneur in the Philippines is engineering a grassroots revolution in the retail industry. His group is working with ...Read more
January 9, 2015 • 28m
In impoverished areas of the Philippines, many households cannot afford electricity and don't use their lights. As the homes are s...Read more
January 23, 2015 • 28m
Thailand's CO2 emissions have reached a staggering 310 million tons per year, mostly due to heavy traffic in urban areas and smog-...Read more
January 30, 2015 • 28m
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and is famous as the world's most densely populated city. More and more international companies...Read more
February 6, 2015 • 28m
On December 26, 2004, a massive 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggering an enormous tsunam...Read more
February 13, 2015 • 28m
Laos has enjoyed constant economic growth averaging over 7.5% over the past 10 years. This has created new jobs and a demand for v...Read more
February 20, 2015 • 28m
Bhutan is still one of the world's Least Developed Countries and many people in rural areas only own one pair of shoes and cannot ...Read more
March 6, 2015 • 28m
China's one-child policy has contributed to a rapid greying of the population. This has led to an increase in senile dementia, a c...Read more
March 13, 2015 • 28m
Indonesia is home to 240 million people, 90% of whom are Muslim. Right now, Islamic fashion is very much in vogue, especially amon...Read more
March 20, 2015 • 28m
Kung Fu or Chinese martial arts have become a way for many youngsters from rural parts of China to escape from poverty. They enter...Read more
March 27, 2015 • 28m
As its economy develops, the women of Papua New Guinea are becoming more enterprising and starting to play a wider role in society...Read more
April 3, 2015 • 28m
By 2016, more than 14% of Singapore's population will be over the age of 65 and with a birthrate of just 1.19%, there is an urgent...Read more
April 10, 2015 • 28m
Bright orange bicycles have become an increasingly common sight in Taiwan's biggest city, Taipei. They're all part of YouBike, the...Read more
May 1, 2015 • 28m
China is known all over the world for its counterfeit goods, with millions of tourists taking home fake products from the country ...Read more
May 8, 2015 • 28m
40 years after the Vietnam War, a painful legacy of the jungle fighting continues to inflict suffering. The toxic defoliant Agent ...Read more
May 15, 2015 • 28m
Vietnam has emerged as one of the most gay-friendly nations in Southeast Asia after recently ending a ban on same-sex marriage. In...Read more
May 22, 2015 • 28m
An old film reel is uncovered. Shot by a Japanese news agency, it shows a village in North Vietnam sending its young men off to wa...Read more
May 29, 2015 • 28m
Da Nang, Vietnam is located directly between the capital of Hanoi and the economic metropolis of Ho Chi Minh. The city has long pr...Read more
June 12, 2015 • 28m
Phalla Neang has been teaching young people with visual and hearing impairments in Cambodia for over 20 years. She began her work ...Read more
June 19, 2015 • 28m
English language education for students from overseas is now a huge industry in the Philippines. In Cebu City, the country's 2nd l...Read more
June 26, 2015 • 28m
The Dordoi Bazaar in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek is Eurasia's largest. It is a key way-stop on the route by which Chinese produc...Read more
July 3, 2015 • 28m
The small, yet affluent city-state of Singapore, on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. Occupying an area of just 710 square ...Read more
July 17, 2015 • 28m
The Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan is seeing an unending stream of 'legally' abandoned children. As many as 2,000 infants ar...Read more
July 24, 2015 • 28m
Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, recently expressed concerns over a culture of vulgarity that was taking root in the country. Th...Read more
July 31, 2015 • 28m
A social entrepreneur in the Philippines is engineering a grassroots revolution in the retail industry. His group is working with ...Read more
August 7, 2015 • 28m
In September 2014, the world witnessed Hong Kong's so-called "Umbrella Revolution", named after the umbrellas pro-democracy marche...Read more
August 14, 2015 • 28m
China's one-child policy has contributed to a rapid greying of the population. This has led to an increase in senile dementia, a c...Read more
August 21, 2015 • 28m
The Tibetan Mastiff became known as the "Dog of God" in China during the height of a craze to have them as pets, and there was onc...Read more
August 28, 2015 • 28m
The National Pediatric Hospital of Cambodia in Phnom Penh has been offering nutritious free meals to its patients, thanks to the s...Read more
September 4, 2015 • 28m
Rapid economic expansion in China has brought about changes in the lifestyles of its citizens. More people work later and dine lat...Read more
September 11, 2015 • 28m
The Republic of Korea has long been known as a homogenous country, but due to struggles with a labor shortage and an aging society...Read more
September 18, 2015 • 28m
Thailand's CO2 emissions have reached a staggering 310 million tons per year, mostly due to heavy traffic in urban areas and smog-...Read more
September 25, 2015 • 28m
China has a long and proud tradition of acrobatics, but as the country becomes wealthier, fewer youngsters are choosing acrobatics...Read more
October 2, 2015 • 28m
Being one of the most undeveloped countries in Asia, Laos still lacks adequate medical services in rural areas, and the mortality ...Read more
October 16, 2015 • 28m
As the world pays more attention to China as an economic superpower, more and more people are moving to the country to study the a...Read more
October 23, 2015 • 28m
Tibet was once among the world's most isolated places. Its main city, Lhasa, was a center of traditional culture and Tibetan Buddh...Read more
October 30, 2015 • 28m
Over the past few decades, millions of people from rural China have flooded to the cities in search of wealth. We focus on several...Read more
November 6, 2015 • 28m
Laos is a landlocked country on the Indochina Peninsula and one of the poorest countries within ASEAN. On this episode of Asia Ins...Read more
November 13, 2015 • 28m
An in-depth portrait of Asia today, covering its dynamism as a center of growth as well as its traditions tossed around by the adv...Read more
November 20, 2015 • 28m
The One Belt, One Road (OBOR) economic policy links the commercial city of Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, to all the way to Spain by tra...Read more
November 27, 2015 • 28m
An in-depth portrait of Asia today, covering its dynamism as a center of growth as well as its traditions tossed around by the adv...Read more
December 11, 2015 • 28m
Ever since China's underground music and art culture started to really emerge in the 1980's, artists have had to release their wor...Read more
December 18, 2015 • 28m
An in-depth portrait of Asia, covering its dynamism as a center of growth as well as its traditions tossed around by the advance of globalization