Season 4 (2015)

Retail Revolution: Philippines
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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

Spreading Light with Plastic Bottles
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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

Thailand's Low Carbon Vision
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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

Escaping Poverty: Brick Workers in Bangladesh
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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

Prayers for Aceh: A Decade after the Indian Ocean Tsunami
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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

Vietnamese Chase their Dreams in Laos
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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

Shoes for Everyone: Bhutan
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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

Finding the Missing Elderly: Zhejiang, China
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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

Islamic Fashion: In Vogue
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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

The World's Largest Kung Fu School
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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

Women Mean Business in Papua New Guinea
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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

New Challenges for an Aging Society: Singapore
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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

Public Transport Taipei Style
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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

China's Fight against Counterfeit Products
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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

Living with Agent Orange
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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

Leading the Way for Gay Marriage: Vietnam
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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

Vietnam War: Young Men in an Old Film
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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

Vietnam's New Distribution Hub
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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

Cambodia's Mother of Disabled Children
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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

Learning English in the Philipines
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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

A Tough Test for Silk Road Merchants
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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

Innovative Farming in Singapore
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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

The Battle against Legal Abandonment
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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

China's Car Models Clean-up
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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

Retail Revolution - Philippines
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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

The Post-Umbrella Revolution - Hong Kong
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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

Finding the Missing Elderly: Zhejiang, China
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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

The Abandoned "Dog of God", China
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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

Happiness through Nutrition in Cambodia
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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

24 Hours in Beijing's Gourmet Town
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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

South Korea Seeks Skilled Foreigners
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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

Thailand's Low Carbon Vision
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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

African Students in Chinese Acrobatics
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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

Caring for Life: Laos Midwives
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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

Foreign Nationals Learn Chinese Culture
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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

Tibet's Changing Landscape: Lhasa
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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

Home Alone in China
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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

Promoting Organic Farming in Laos
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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

Crossing the Border: Korea's Divided Families
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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

China's Christmas Town: One Belt, One Road from Yiwu
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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

Shanghai: Natives and Newcomers
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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

Beijing's Underground Artists
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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

China: E-Shopping Village
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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