Asia Pacific
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Asia Pacific Podcast 17th May 2013
In the Philippines mid-term elections appear to have delivered President Benigno Aquino a ringing endorsement. Australia again urged to speak out against Indonesia's death penalty, following the executions of three local men this morning.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 16th May 2013
Malaysia's Prime Minister has chaired the first meeting of his new cabinet after the contentious May 5th election. The entire Australian continent excised from the migration zone - in an attempt to deter asylum-seekers.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 15th May 2013
Mass evacuations in Bangladesh & Myanmar as cyclone nears and Bangladesh heritage site threatened by planned power plant
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Asia Pacific Podcast 14th May 2013
Rohingya tragedy at sea, as Myanmar braces for cyclone; and PNG women demand an end to violence.
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Asia Pacific Business 13th May 2013
Australia's foreign aid program has been confirmed as a casualty of this year's budget. As the Philippines vote in mid-term polls, President Aquino looks likely to finish his agenda of reforms.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 10th May 2013
Malaysia's Opposition not after an 'Arab spring' - DAP leader, and Indian film confronts issue of violence against women
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Asia Pacific Podcast 9th May 2013
A former chief justice of Malaysia says the Opposition should table proof to back its allegations of election fraud.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 8th May 2013
Thousands of Malaysians are rallying to Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's call for a "fierce campaign" for electoral reform, after Sunday's polls.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 7th May 2013
Australia's graziers welcome Indonesia's growing interest in Australian cattle properties and Papua's stolen generation - Melanesian children raised in Indonesia's pesantrens.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 6th May 2013
We devote tonight's programme to Malaysia's much-anticipated elections on Sunday.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 3rd May 2013
Australia unveils its defence white paper - with a more conciliatory approach to China and a repositioning towards the Indo Pacific and Malaysia's tightly fought election contest comes to a head on Sunday - we'll hear from our correspondent Liam Cochrane in Johor.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 2nd May 2013
Australian foreign minister Bob Carr on his visit to PNG and Rio Tinto urged to improve its environmental record if it plans to re-open its mine on Bougainville.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 1st May 2013
Regional media watchdog SEAPA's call for fairer media coverage of the Malaysian election. Indonesia's vow for a more prosperous Papua province.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 30th April 2013
Barisan Nasional spends big to keep key seats, and soul searching not enough, after latest Bangladesh disaster.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 29th April 2013
Australians warned to brace for a 12 billion dollar write down in revenue. The Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission unofficially released on social media.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 26th April 2013
Japan's central bank raises its forecasts for inflation and economic growth and better late than never - the first Indian film to show lovers locking lips, set to enrapture new audiences, 80 years later.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 25th April 2013
ASEAN ends Brunei summit with show of unity, but little else. The Pawa Meri project - telling inspiring PNG women's stories.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 24th April 2013
Old border quarrel resurfaces between China and India, and Britain outlaws caste discrimination.
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Asia Pacifc Podcast 23rd April 2013
Australia growing by more than a thousand people a day and will reach 40 million people by 2050 and Pacific Island high school students in New Zealand get an encouraging report card.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 22nd April 2013
An update on the Sichuan quake in China. Why Nepalis at home and abroad are furious over attempts to sell Nepal's embassy in London.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 19th April 2013
Australia's government accused of steering people away from seeking asylum, through a fast-tracked process. Philippine government agencies scramble to meet a looming deadline to clean up Manila Bay.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 18th April 2013
Islamabad High Court orders arrest of Pervez Musharraf, and calls made to end opium trade in Myanmar's Shan state.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 17th April 2013
Malaysia's online community alive with debate, ahead of the May 5th national election. PNG's Trade Minister accuses Australia of failing to help create jobs for PNG's growing young population.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 16th May 2013
On this evening's program, The UN says greater refugee quotas will drive down people-smuggling, and PNG Manus Island centre found wanting by Australian Immigration.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 15th April 2013
Peace talks falter between the Philippine government and the separatist MILF and Malaysian women call for greater political participation in the leadup to national elections.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 11th April 2013
Plans for a high speed rail link on Australia's east coast. New Wikileak cables show that Indonesia had suggested an international intervention in East Timor just before it invaded it in 1975
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Asia Pacific Podcast 10th March 2013
Australia's latest asylum seeker boat arrivals are being described as both an unprecedented breach of Australia's border security and a cry for help
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Asia Pacific Podcast 9th April 2013
Malaysia's Election Commission promises a free and fair GE13 and Baroness Margaret Thatcher's legacy in Hong Kong.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 8th April 2013
North Korea suspends all operations in the North-South Kaesong industrial complex. The Australian Federal Court told Filipino oil riggers were paid less than three dollars an hour, off Western Australia.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 5th April 2013
Concerns about the speed at which the Australian government is adopting the recommendations of its expert panel on asylum policy and a drugs epidemic threatening to destroy a generation of young men in India's Punjab state.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 4th April 2013
North Korea's threat against a key symbol of North-South cooperation - the Kaesong industrial park. Australia's Prime Minister leads a high-level delegation on a five-day visit to China.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 3rd April 2013
And the long wait is over - Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak has finally called national elections - the 13th in the nation's history.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 2nd April 2013
On tonight's program, A new outcome at International forum on people smuggling in Bali, and Malaysian govt generosity raises speculation of impending polls
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Asia Pacific Podcast 1st April 2013
We meet Australia's new Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island and Multicultural Affairs. A special report on the Philippines' Reproductive Health Law which has hit a new obstacle, barely four months after it was passed.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 28th March
We meet Australia's new Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island and Multicultural Affairs. A special report on the Philippines' Reproductive Health Law.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 27th March 2013
Landmark peace talks between the Thai government and the Muslim rebels to start tomorrow and Pakistan prepares for polls in May.
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Asia pacific Podcast 26th March
Reports from Myanmar say communal violence has spread closer to the main city Yangon. Philippine President Benigno Aquino has called off the latest round of talks between his government and the rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 25th March 2013
Hong Kong's highest court rules in a landmark case against granting permanent residency to foreign maids. China's new President Xi Jinping's diplomatic offensive in Russia and Africa.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 22nd March 2013
Malaysia's Bar Council to provide legal aid to eight Filipinos charged with terrorism-related offences in Sabah and New Zealand's foreign minister unimpressed by Fiji's scrapping of its panel to consider the draft constitution.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 21st 2013
An extraordinary day in Australian politics, where an aborted leadership challenge has claimed several high-profile scalps.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 20th March 2013
India vows to get tough with Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council and lessons on financial literacy strike the right chord with school children in Fiji.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 19th March 2013
Pro-life groups in the Philippines applaud the Supreme Court's suspension of a reproductive health bill and is commercial rice farming threatening Cambodia's rural eco-system?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 18th March 2013
China now the world's fifth largest arms exporter. Australian and New Zealand immigration authorities identify 70 Tongan criminals who obtained visas by fraud.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 14th March 2013
A Cambodian Appeals Court overturns the conviction of a prominent journalist of anti-state activities. Housing and sanitation still a challenge in Solomons' Temotu province.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 13th March 2013
Australia's BHP-Billiton investigated for alleged bribery offences during the Beijing Olympics and a global campaign to persuade former British colonies to de-criminalise homosexuality.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 12th March 2013
Pakistan risks US sanctions as it prepares to start work on a controversial gas pipeline to Iran and New Zealand's parliament condemns the beating and torture of detainees in Fiji.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 11th March 2013
Battle for Suntech amid fraud allegations, and Sri Lankan voices heard at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 8th March 2013
Thailand's military denies accusations of shooting and killing Rohingya asylum-seekers at sea.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 7th March 2013
New Zealand's Parliament to vote on a cross-party motion condemning police violence in Fiji. The Chinese game of Mahjong gains popularity around the world.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 6th March 2013
Sabah siege a political headache for Malaysian government, and Kabul Bank chiefs jailed for fraud.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 5th March 2013
Fiji Police begin investigating the brutal beating of an alleged recaptured prisoner and Football's glamour boy David Beckham, named an ambassador for China's Super League.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 4th March 2013
China's new leadership to be sworn in in Beijing and Australian scientists hope a discovery into HIV treatment could lead to a cure.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 1st March 2013
Scientists visiting the Lynas rare earths plant in Malaysia, give it the safety thumbs up and China's state owned oil company, CNOOC, takes over a Canadian energy producer.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 28th February 2013
Thailand signs an agreement with a Muslim rebel group, but will it bring peace to the south?Governments urged to cooperate with Interpol to fight illegal fishing in the Pacific.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 27th February 2013
Burma's president Thein Sein starts his first European tour in Norway. Will India hand down a populist or reformist budget as it prepares for elections next year? Australia's kangaroo meat industry makes a push into Chinese market
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Asia Pacific Podcast 26th February 2013
Australia's Immigration Minister endorses conditions on Manus Island, and China's new leader Xi Jinping treads peacefully on Taiwan issue.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 25th February 2013
Malaysia's opposition coalition offers a non-racial national blueprint ahead of general elections and South Korea's new President sworn in, with her eye firmly focused on the economy and Pyongyang.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 22nd February 2013
An ever-expanding scandal engulfs Australia's elite male swimmers.Sri Lanka's military again urged to scale down from the former war zones.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 21st February 2013
Cambodia's ethnic minority communities celebrate International Mother Language Day and Artists from seven Pacific island nations make a big impression at Sydney's Maketi Ples art show.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 20th February 2013
Why Japan's success in devaluing the Yen is raising eyebrows in finance circles. Indonesia vows to stop chaining up its mental health patients.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 19th February 2013
An ongoing standoff between Malaysian authorities and Muslim Filipino gunmen in Sabah state. China set to take control of a key deep sea port in Pakistan.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 18th February 2013
Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks launch a campaign against Islamic halal meat and are Australian police guilty of racial profiling?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 15th February 2013
Daunting economic challenges face Vietnam, and health authorities watchful for killer virus.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 14th January 2013
Afghanistan's women lobby for Australia's support in protecting women's rights post-2014. PNG's Supreme Court refuses to suspend the transfer of asylum seekers by Australia to Manus Island.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 13th February 2013
Cambodia reports unusual rise in bird flu cases; parliamentary bill to acknowledge indigenous Australians and Malaysia's BN government wants more time to finish reforms
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Asia Pacific Podcast 12th February 2013
The UN Security Council calls an emergency meeting to deal with North Korea's latest nuclear test and a warning against the rampant use of antibiotics in Chinese pig farms.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 11th February 2013
Drug addiction among the very young and adolescents on the rise in Afghanistan. Cambodia's genocide tribunal under threat from lack of money.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 8th February 2013
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Asia Pacific Podcast 7th February 2013
System fails child victims of abuse - HRW report on India, and intolerance growing as India's intellectuals fight for free speech
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Asia Pacific Podcast 6th February 2013
Solomon Islands assesses tsunami damage in remote regions; eminent economists warn of the Great Australian Complacency and China bans advertisments of luxury items
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Asia Pacific Podcast 5th February 2013
Kashmir's first girl band calls it quits, after an Islamist cleric issues a fatwa against them and Phnom Penh's tearful farewell to the late Norodom Sihanouk, after an elaborate cremation ceremony.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 4th February 2013
Children in Solomon Islands to return to school tomorrow, as teachers call off a strike, Papua New Guinea's anti-corruption taskforce strikes a raw nerve and Sino-Japanese tensions and their impact on tourism.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 1st February 2013
India's peak womens' group says the government's response to the national gender violence crisis is poor and Cambodia's final farewell to the late King Norodom Sihanouk.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 31st January 2013
Sitiveni Rabuka, the man who set Fiji's coup culture in motion, quits politics and marking 65 years since the passing of Mahatma Gandhi - how will he be remembered?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 30th January 2013
Five men prepare to face trial for rape, murder and kidnap in the Indian capital New Delhi. A quarter of a million displaced Afghans brace for freezing conditions in makeshift shelters.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 29th January 2013
Australia and Germany top defence transparency survey, and US equipment giant Caterpillar learns tough lesson in China
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Asia Pacific Podcast 28th January 2013
On Notice - Singapore's ruling People's Action Party defeated in a second by-election in eight months, the flood crisis in Australia's north-eastern state of Queensland and protecting small agricultural land holdings in the Pacific from big commercial concerns.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 25th January 2013
UN and Philippines revise aid plan for typhoon survivors in Mindanao, and India's political heart-throb Rahul Gandhi now No.2 in Congress Party
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Asia Pacific Podcast 24th January 2013
Sri Lanka's legal fraternity boycotts the inauguration of the new chief justice. Tennis coaches arrive from India to Australia on 457 visas.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 23rd January 2013
Religious controversy in Indonesia, over a UN plan to ban female circumcision, and international outrage over Solomon Islands' dolphin kill
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Asia Pacific Podcast 22nd January 2013
Is China fed up with North Korean brinkmanship? Beijing joins the US in a draft UN resolution to expand sanctions against Pyongyang and Jailhouse Rock - Musical inmates of India's notorious Tihar jail poised to release a pop album.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 21st January 2013
Jakarta's latest flash floods expose the city's crumbling infrastructure. Women and girls bear the brunt of national budget cutbacks in the Asia Pacific.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 18th January 2013
Fiji's opposition political parties unite to fight a tough new law they say threatens their survival. Camping out with 100 million people can be good for your health.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 17th January 2013
A 14-billion-dollar write-down costs the head of Rio Tinto his job and there's still gold in them there hills - a lucky Australian prospector strikes it rich with a five-kilo gold nugget.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 16th January 2013
Australia criticises tough new rules for Fiji political parties, UNHCR to visit suspected Rohingya refugees in Thailand and Malaysia wins 'Muslim-friendly' tourism award
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Asia Pacific Podcast 15th January 2013
New Indian laws on surrogacy to exclude many would-be Australian parents. Find out what taibo styling means in a Chinese equivalent of the Urban Dictionary.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 14th January 2013
Tonga battens down ahead of a storm system that's expected to strengthen overnight to a cyclone and as Beijing chokes through its worst air pollution on record, what hope for cleaner vehicles in Asia.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 11th January 2012
Demands for gun control in the Philippines. New research on the children of China's one child policy
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Asia Pacific Podcast 10th January 2013
Broken promises - Fiji's interim leaders criticised over plans to rewrite the country's long-awaited constitution and candidates for the top job at the World Trade Organisation vie for the top job - could the new chief be a woman?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 9th January 2013
Fears that Japan's new prime minister might wind-back an apology to thousands of World War Two sex-slaves and a call for Korea to overhaul its approach to mental health, amid relentlessly rising suicide rates.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 8th january 2013
Scorn for Chinese government censors from the country's social media community. Court proceedings launched in Papua New Guinea to close Australia's asylum seeker processing centre on Manus Island
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Asia Pacific Podcast 4th January 2012
A historic family planning law in the Philippines has its first legal challenge. Gone forever, the ghost gums that inspired indigenous artist Albert Namatjira, burned to the ground
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Asia Pacific Podcast 3rd January 2013
Five men prepare to face trial for rape, murder and kidnap in the Indian capital New Delhi. A quarter of a million displaced Afghans brace for freezing conditions in makeshift shelters.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 2nd January 2013
China warns United States may face 'fiscal abyss', and Tibetan immolations discussed at China-Tibet meeting in Australia
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Asia Pacific Podcast 1st January 2013
A deal reached in the United States Senate to stop the country toppling over the so-called fiscal cliff. East Timor's former president Jose-Ramos Horta joins us to discuss his appointment as Ban Ki-Moon's special representative to Guinea-Bissau.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 28th December 2012
Pacific islands brace for the formation of another tropical cyclone. China's tough new internet controls falling foul of business
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Asia Pacific Podcast 27th December 2012
China opens the world's longest high speed rail line, cutting the trip from Beijing to Guanzhou by more than half. Efforts to keep a remote Papua New Guinea town vibrant when the mining firm that runs it shuts up shop and leaves.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 26th December 2012
Muslim anger in Indonesia over the swapping of beef for pork in popular take-away foods and a Christmas treat for Australian botanists, a flower that smells like rotting flesh blossoming for the first time.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 24th December 2012
Sri Lanka floods to worsen as reservoirs overflow, and christmas baking prizes for Australian cattle farmer.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 21st December 2012
The brutal rape and bashing of a young woman in Delhi has prompted demonstrations and outrage and a very Honiara Christmas - we meet an Australian Red Cross worker, who's spending the festive season in Solomon Islands.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 20th December 2012
Indonesia puts up respected economist Mari Pangestu for WTO top job, and Samoa's efforts at recovery and rehabilitation, a week on from Cyclone Evan.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 19th December 2012
Pakistan moves towards developing its own drone aircraft, and Fiji's military cancels its own Christmas as it embarks on a clean up operation, post-Cyclone Evan.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 18th December 2012
The Pacific nations of Fiji and Samoa begin cleaning up after Cyclone Evan, Both nations are also surveying the damages bill from one of the biggest storms to hit the region.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 17th December 2012
Japan's conservative LDP gets another shot at getting the economy up from its knees, after the weekend elections and and the Pacific island of Fiji has been expecting a massive storm for the past 24 hours.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 14th December 2012
Tropical Cyclone Evan heads for Tokelau and Fiji after leaving a trail of destruction in neighboring Samoa. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen calls for an end to discrimination against gay and lesbian citizens.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 13th December 2012
The Salvation Army says not all their members are happy that it's supporting the detention of asylum-seekers on Nauru, Burma's military reported to be using weapons procured from Sweden, against the Kachin rebels and refugee advocates vow to continue trying to reunite asylum seekers' families in Australia.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 12th December 2012
Mining giant BHP Billiton bails out of West Australian gas development; looking after the children in post typhoon Mindanao and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92
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Asia Pacific Podcast 11th December 2012
How international aid agencies should be engaging the Taliban in Afghanistan. South Korean singer Psy sparks outrage in the U-S, after YouTube videos of him taking part in anti-American rallies.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 10th December 2012
The head of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands says the country will soon be ready to manage its own security. Harnessing the mobile phone to promote maternal health in East Timor.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 7th December 2012
Reports from Malaysia that the health ministry is considering female genital mutilation as a medical practice. We take you to the catwalk in Melbourne, that's showcasing Indonesian Islamic fashion.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 6th December 2012
The political leader of Tibetans living in exile, Lobsang Sangay, has launched a campaign calling for international support for his people's struggle against Chinese rule and hundreds of asylum seekers were today moved from immigration detention in Australia's Northern Territory to be released into the community in Melbourne and Sydney on special bridging visas.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 5th December 2012
134 Nobel Laureates petition incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to release peace laureate Liu Xiaobo. A new generation of mining companies in PNG, seeking non-traditional minerals.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 4th December 2012
Ok Tedi Mining Limited says an extension of its mine life in Papua New Guinea is imminent. Indonesian authorities detain a police chief wanted in a multi-million dollar fraud case. Australia urged to maintain a strong focus on women's rights in Afghanistan
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Asia Pacific Podcast 3rd December 2012
We meet two Sri Lankan returnees, who failed to qualify as genuine refugees under the Australian government's assessment.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 30th November 2012
Australian govt accused of not looking after its citizens abroad, and K-Pop industry embracing performers from across Asia.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 29th November 2012
Why New Zealand's Climate Change Minister Tim Groser thinks the Kyoto Protocol is "toxic" and Fiji grapples with the pros and cons of legalising prostitution.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 28th November 2012
Papua New Guinea calls for a total realignment of Australia's half a billion dollar aid programme.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 27th November 2012
Fiji's peak union body to enter the nation's political arena in 2014, And Japan's technology sector grapples with issues of innovation and foreign competition.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 26th November 2012
The first of two UNHCR humanitarian airlifts arrives in Burma's Rakhine state and out and Proud - India's gay rights movement makes itself heard.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 23rd November 2012
Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), is calling for regional governments to protect journalists and commentators and their right to opinion and free reporting and Starlady Nungari - transgender hairdresser, youth-worker and desert style icon and how she's touching the lives of indigenous teenagers in Australia's Northern Territory.
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Today marks the official end of operations for the remaining Australian and New Zealand soldiers in East Timor, and the 60th anniversary of the Colombo Plan is being celebrated where it began in 1952.
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Asia Pacifc Podcast 21st November 2012
A cool response by Australia's foreign minister Bob Carr, to Malaysian Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's call for help in his country's upcoming polls.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 20th November 2012
China's Communist party bosses have appointed Sun Zhengcai as the new party boss for the troubled but vital south-western city of Chongqing and Amnesty International inspectors have criticised the conditions at Australia's immigration detention centre in Nauru.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 19th November 2012
The World Bank gives a stern warning about the devastating consequences of inaction against climate change, and Malaysian opponents of a rare earth processing plant, prepare to protest outside the Lynas AGM in Sydney tomorrow.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 16th November 2012
A Guerra da Be-a-triz, East Timor's first locally produced feature film that's more than just a movie.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 15th November 2012
Singapore re-thinks its mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking, and what impact on East Timor's economy, when the UN pulls out at the end of this year?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 14th November 2012
A leaked draft report on the UN's role in the last months of Sri Lanka's civil war, says the U-N failed to protect civilians and China is all set to unveil its top leadership line up on Thursday
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Asia Pacific Podcast 13th November 2012
Angry landowners on Papua New Guinea's Manus island and Japan could be going to an early election before the end of the year.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 8th November 2012
Malaysian opponents of Lynas rare earths plant vow to fight on and new Australian bands a big hit at Oz Fest in India.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 9th November 2012
How the quarrel between China and Japan is affecting a multi-billion dollar port project in Western Australia, and moves to improve ferry passenger safety and reliability in the Pacific.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 7th November 2012
The Salvation Army demands to know when asylum seekers on Nauru will be processed, as the Governor of Manus Island gives Australia the all-clear to dispatch asylum seekers there, and the Philippines' President takes on the all powerful Catholic Church over sex education.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 6th November 2012
China's super effective population control and family-planning policy may be creating a new set of problems. So should Beijing re-think its one-child policy?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 5th November 2012
Canberra's exchange programme between Australian and Malaysian Muslim youth leaders and is Muslim radicalisation on the rise in Malaysia?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 2nd November 2012
An Australian group is helping to empower women and girls in Mumbai's red light district of Kamathipura.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 1st November 2012
India's first woman police officer and her crusade against corruption and tensions mounting among asylum seekers taken to the island of Nauru.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 31th October 2012
The UN hands full control of policing operations in East Timor to the local force, and Papua New Guinea politicians call for a ban on betel nut in PNG cities.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 30th October 2012
A major shake-up of Australia's aviation industry as Virgin Australia takes a 60 percent stake in Singapore-owned budget-carrier Tiger Airways
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Asia Pacific Podcast 29th October 2012
Indian PM Manmohan Singh's cabinet shake-up, with an eye on the 2014 polls, and on the eve of Vanuatu's elections, what do the people want?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 26th October 2012
The beautiful game for a beautiful life - FIFA spreads the football message in Burma, to help schoolchildren achieve a well-rounded, healthier life
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Asia Pacific Podcast 25th October 2012
Muslim leader calls for Burmese government action to end Rakhine violence; ASEAN Secretary General rules out early signing of Code of Conduct Treaty and the French Polynesia Festival underway in Melbourne.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 24th October 2012
Australian lawyer Sarah Armstrong caught up in a corruption investigation in Mongolia. Plus, no El Nino - Aussie forecasters revise their weather expectations.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 22 October 2012
Australia's government under fire for trying to raise revenue through higher visa fees and hardline muslim groups in Indonesia's Aceh
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Asia Pacific Podcast 19th October 2012
America's big symbolic gesture in inviting Burma to a regional military exercise and making PNG's open air markets safe for women to trade and shop.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 18th October 2012
Philippine President Aquino confident that peace will descend on the southern Philippines, and health advocates and their argument for de-criminalising sex work and prostitution.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 17th October 2012
The Governor of PNG's Manus Island accuses the Australian government of arrogance, and asian countries' impending battle to provide for people in retirement.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 16th October 2012
Cambodia denies reports that it's planning to build a nuclear power plant and South Asia ranked the world's hungriest region, doing worse than Sub-Sahara Africa.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 15th October 2012
Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk dies two weeks short of his 90th birthday, and PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says he will protect the interests of his people from irregular land dealings.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 12th October 2012
Deal finalised with Chinese consortium of prime Australian farm land and Bali Remembered - The commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 2002 Bali Bombings.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 11th October 2012
Tibetan exiles in Nepal face increased surveillance and control and Vanuatu named the country with the greatest natural disaster risk.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 10 October 2012
Australia the money-laundering destination of choice for corrupt PNG politicians and officials and how India's royal families are maintaining their relevance in this modern age.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 9th October 2012
Malaysia's youth vote & its impact on upcoming elections, and plans to distribute a cheaper, long-lasting and more effective female contraceptive in Papua New Guinea.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 8th September 2012
Opposite sides of Malaysia's political divide - the ruling BN's Gan Ping Sieu and the Opposition's key strategist Rafizi Ramli, and interviews on the Malaysian elections.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 5th October 2012
India announces a series of major economic reforms for more direct foreign investment and Kancil and children's stories - Bali's Ubud Writers Festival goes global.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 4th October 2012
Thousands of India's landless poor begin their long march to New Delhi to protest against displacement and Australia's Northern Territory looks to Vietnam as the hot new market for Australian cattle.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 3rd October 2012
Why Burma's displaced ethnic Kachins are missing out on foreign aid and engaging the Church in the Pacific to encourage healthier eating.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 2nd October 2012
The latest on Pakistan's post-monsoon floods, and the world's first cow that produces milk for the lactose intolerant.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 1st October 2012
A new report by INTERPOL and the United Nations' Environment Program links illegal logging and crime, and Laos to become a member of the World Trade Organisation
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Asia Pacific Podcast 28th September 2012
Doubts as to whether the Japanese government will deliver on its promise to end use of all nuclear power, and Australia plays down its chances of winning a temporary seat on the UN Security Council.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 27th September 2012
Sri Lanka closes its largest refugee camp, Menik Farm, reports of horrific treatment of live Australian sheep in Pakistan and Australian nurses who served in the Vietnam war seek veteran rights.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 26th September 2012
A former Japanese Prime Minister tipped to regain the top job and Australia echoes calls from Burma to drop sanctions against the country.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 25th September 2012
North Korea's parliament meets in a rare special session, and calls for Australia's Indigenous artists to be protected by a mandatory code of conduct.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 24th September 2012
South Korea's presidential hopeful Park Guen-hye apologises for her father, former dictator Park Chung Hee's misdeeds and Papua New Guinea's prime minister says its time to overhaul infrastructure and improve delivery of services to the people.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 21st September 2012
PNG Manus Island land-owners want to be paid before Australia builds and asylum-seeker processing facility there and why Australia's war time history may need to be re-written 70 years after the bombing of Darwin.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 20th September 2012
UMNO and its place in Malaysia's 'new politics' and Australia's live export trade reels from setbacks.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 19th September 2012
Australia's government cleared over a backpacker's killing in Cambodia, and Australia's Treasurer Wayne Swan outlines his vision for Australia's future economic engagement with China
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Asia Pacific Podcast 18th September 2012
As the trade row between he US and China hots up, back in America the two presidential candidates talk tough on how to deal with China. Thailand's Truth for Reconciliation Committe presents its findings into the 2010 anti-government protests.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 17th September 2012
Violent protests against a US-made film deemed insulting to Islam spread to Indonesia and Australia's Ambassador to Cambodia says corruption in the country is still a major problem.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 14th September 2012
Nauru government says it will assess asylum seekers sent from Australia and the Malaysian government runs 'gay spotting' seminars for teachers and parents.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 13th September 2012
Why China's latest set of lacklustre economic figures are of concern to countries like Papua New Guinea and finding a lasting solution to the teeming slums of many Asian cities.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 12th September 2012
Nepal's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hits a hurdle even before it's set up, and flooding in Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands region.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 11th September 2012
The 'father of Pakistan's nuclear program' enters the political arena; the Salvation Army to generate opportunities for asylum-seekers on Nauru and PNG AND we look at a new women-friendly market place being built in Fiji.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 10th September 2012
Provincial council elections strengthen Sri Lanka's ruling United People's Freedom Alliance and cashed-up Chinese investors look to Australian real-estate to park their funds.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 7th September 2012
Former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun charged by Chinese prosecutors, and the Asian Development Bank's Private Sector Initiative - why it's good for women in the Pacific.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 6th September 2012
Former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun charged by Chinese prosecutors and the Asian Development Bank's Private Sector Initiative - why it's good for women in the Pacific.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 5th September 2012
PNG's damning report on the Rabaul Queen ferry tragedy, An unmarried teenager in the Maldives threatened with a public flogging, after she admitted to having sex.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 4th September 2012
A Sinhalese journalist in exile, explains why some Sri Lankans still need protection even though the war is over, Solomon Islands' long-awaited Tina River hydro-power scheme.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 3rd September 2012
Australia's advertising and social media campaign to stop asylum-seekers taking to the seas and we look at the region's current flurry of diplomatic activity.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 31st August 2012
The Pacific Islands Forum officially ends as the world's super-powers arrive, and relatives of the Khmer Rough find some comfort in a new discovery.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 30 August 2012
In the program tonight, PNG to ban foreign journalists from Manus island AND a Pakistani court adjourns the blasphemy case against a Christian girl.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 29th August 2012
More signs of reform in Burma as the government culls its blacklist, and the Pacific Islands Forum opens to fanfare, but all eyes will be on a late arrival.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 28th August 2012
Indonesia accused of turning a blind-eye to religious intolerance, and East Timor lobbies for more jobs at the Pacific Islands Forum.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 27th August 2012
India says it has proof that Pakistanis sparked the panic in India last week and is there a new style of leadership in Singapore?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 24th August 2012
The United Nations condemns Australia's plans to process asylum-seekers off-shore and Fiji could become the next destination for seriously ill people seeking to end their lives.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 23rd August 2012
4,000 gold miners in Burma form the first union in half a century and Cosmetics company LUSH takes up the Papuan cause.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 22nd August 2012
China worries over US rebalancing to Asia and Australia's role, freshwater species threatened in South East Asia and will India's Coalgate scandal bring down the government?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 20th August 2012
Burma has taken another small step to reform, by abolishing official press censorship and a sense of complacency in Australia could de-rail its hopes of living well in the Asian Century.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 17th August 2012
The Australian Parliament to launch an inquiry into modern slavery and human trafficking, and how do Africans really feel about Chinese migrants?
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Asia Pacific Podcast 16th August 2012
The storms may have moved on, but for the urban poor in Manila, the misery is only beginning, and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal dangerously close to bankruptcy.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 15th August 2012
The UN secretary-general hopes Australia will respect its obligations under the refugee convention, as Canberra plans to resume the offshore processing of asylum-seekers AND the Asian Development Bank warns that the region is running out of time, to deal with the effects of climate change.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 14th August 2012
Australia's Prime Minister says asylum seekers could be sent to Nauru and Papua New Guinea for processing within a month and Pakistan has again promised the US it will launch a crackdown on the Taliban operating in a tribal area near the Afghan border.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 13th August 2012
A year on: how successful has Yingluck Shinawatra been as Thailand's first female prime minister? Also, The former Chairman of the Shell Oil Company says the world is dangerously behind on efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 10th August 2012
Could North Korea be on the brink of a multi-billion dollar mining boom? A renewed focus in India on child labour in the hand-embroidery industry.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 9th August 2012
We go to Hefei in China, for the sensational trial of the once well-connected Gu Kailai. Also claims that New Zealand is aiming for a 'Pacific proof' discriminatory immigration system.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 8th August 2012
Are India and China in danger of going to war over water? And PNG prime minister O'Neill's fresh new cabinet line up.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 3rd August 2012
On tonight's program, reports of paid assassins threatening witnesses in the Philippines Ampatuan trial and East Timorese hospitality workers a good fit in northern Australia.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 7th August 2012
Hundreds of people have been detained Macau -- the biggest gambling hub in the world and a mass grave thought to hold the bones of Khmer Rouge victims has been uncovered in northwestern Cambodia.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 6th August 2012
Hardline Catholics in the Philippines protest against a planned family planning bill and Australia's Opposition vows to repeal a controversial part of Australia's Racial Discrimination Act.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 2nd August 2012
Australia puts its seasonal work programme on a permanent footing, and India and Pakistan try to build closer relations through trade.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 1st August 2012
Australian universities are losing ground in attracting international students, and Medicins Sans Frontieres says about two thirds of PNG women are being abused by their partners.
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Asia Pacific Podcast 31st July 2012
Japan's neighbours rattled by Japan's defence blueprint and Chinese search engine Baidu's ambitious plans for Asia.
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