Connect Asia
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Connect Asia Podcast 17th May 2013
Weakened Cyclone Mahasen hits Bangladesh; 'Nonsensical' refugee bill a tragedy, says Aust advocate and Malaysia's Youth Ministry resonates with political significance
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Connect Asia Podcast 16th May 2013
On today's program, the latest from the western coast of Myanmar as Cyclone Mahasen aproaches AND a diplomatic spat between Taiwan and the Philippines deepens into sanctions.
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Connect Asia Podcast 15th May 2013
On today's program, we look at the threat posed by the corona-virus and the risk of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca helping it spread AND we have a chat with photographer and author Nic Dunlop about his book Brave New Burma.
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Connect Asia Podcast 14th May 2013
Pakistan election outcome brings confidence and challenges; Bangladesh to allow unions to form without bosses' permission and Japanese politician says 'comfort women' were wartime necessity
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Connect Asia Podcast 13th May 2013
Nawaz Sharif claims victory in Pakistan elections; Filipino voters head to polls for mid-term election and Australian foreign aid to be diverted again
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Connect Asia Podcast 10th May 2013
BN spokesman doubts police will press charges on rally leaders; foreign policy crucial to Pakistan election, says analyst and calls for Australia to do more to stop slave labour
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Connect Asia Podcast 8th May 2013
Malaysia's opposition leader calls for a mass rally to press home charges of election fraud.
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Connect Asia Podcast 7th May 2013
On today's program, an on-the-ground look at the plight of Myanmar's embattled Muslim minority AND a museum in New York agrees to return two ancient Khmer sculptures back to Cambodia.
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Connect Asia Podcast 6th May 2013
Malaysia coalition extends rule in the wake of general election; East Timor determined to challenge gas treaty and Bollywood turns 100 in Melbourne
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Connect Asia Podcast 3rd May 2013
Australia's new defence white paper has just been released in Canberra. Bahrain's Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa is the man selected to lead the Asian Football Confederation
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Connect Asia Podcast 2nd May 2013
On today's program, Pope condemns Bangladeshi working conditions after factory collapse, and thousands rally in Jakarta against govt fuel subsidy plans.
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Connect Asia Podcast 1st May 2013
Fresh sectarian violence in Myanmar; Greens seek ban on families sent to Manus Island detention centre and Syrian civil war increasingly destabilising Lebanon
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Connect Asia Podcast 30th April 2013
Owner of collapsed factory in Bagladesh under tight security; Myanmar govt releases report on Rakhine violence and Sri Lankan govt repression continues says Amnesty report.
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Connect Asia Podcast 29th April 2013
On today's program, Shinzo Abe's nationalist streak under scrutiny AND Barack Obama changing things up in the White House - but is he running out of time?
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Connect Asia Podcast 26th April 2013
Factory owners told to evacuate before building collapse in Bangladesh; Sichuan earthquake aid stalls over corruption sentiment and Indonesian teenagers face jail over blasphemy charges
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Connect Asia Podcast 24th April 2013
Japan and China at loggerheads over islands and war shrine; Hong Kong maritime strike enters its 27th day and food security on the table in Beijing.
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Connect Asia Podcast 23rd April 2013
Sichuan earthquake leaves towns in desperate circumstances; rape victim's parents say police ignored missing Indian girl and health experts alarmed by Australian detention plans for asylum children
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Connect Asia Podcast 22nd April 2013
Hospitals stretched thin in aftermath of Chinese earthquake, motive still unclear in Boston bombing and 1900 candidates register their nominations for Malaysian election
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Connect Asis Podcast 19th April 2013
Photos of two suspects released as Boston holds memorial service; Pervez Musharraf evading arrest at farmhouse and Laos' ambitious railway plans
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Connect Asia Podcast 18th April 2013
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Connect Asia Podcast 17th April 2013
On today's program, the UN urges Australia to increase its refugee quotas as a crime fighting measure AND a new survey suggests Indian attitudes to Australia have improved since a spate of violent attacks on students a few years ago.
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Connect Asia Podcast 16th April 2013
Explosions at Boston Marathon kill 3, injure more than 100; North Korea rejects peace talk offer and China's economic slowdown partly due to weak overseas demand.
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Connect Asia Podcast 15th April 2013
Philippines peace talks stall; Investigation begins into Bali plane crash and Pyongyang's increasing isolation: where to next?
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Connect Asia Podcast 12th April 2013
Malaysian government behind media cyber attacks alleges Sarawak Report; Refugees plead with Aust govt as hunger strike continues and US spy chief tells of rising North Korean defections
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Connect Asia Podcast 11th April 2013
On today's program, Australian mainland boat arrival reignites border security debate, and ADB warns of environmental and growth setbacks if Asia ignores energy challenge
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Connect Asia Podcast 10th April 2013
Gillard strikes strategic partnership with China; chief of US forces puts China on notice over NKorea threats and Thatcher's legacy for Hong Kong
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Connect Asia Podcast 9th April 2013
On today's program, Australia secures currency deal with China, and the life and legacy of Iron Lady
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Connect Asia Podcast 8th April 2013
Aust Prime Minister talks with Chinese govt; Malaysia's election fever and former President Musharraf set to run in Pakistan election.
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Connect Asia Podcast 5th April 2013
Australian's trade reputation weakened in China says opposition; research into prevalence of autism in China and Myanmar youth embracing social, technological changes.
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Connect Asia Podcast 4th April 2013
An election is called in Malaysia. One of the longest-serving Tibetan political prisoners is released after 17 years in jail.
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Connect Asia Podcast 3rd April 2013
New outcome at International forum on people smuggling in Bali; China powerless to intervene in rising tensions on Korea Peninsula and Malaysian govt generosity raises speculation of impending polls.
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Connect Asia Podcast 2nd April 2013
Landmark patent case in India and it's effects on cheap medications, the fight against narcotics smuggling on the India-Pakistan border and a brand new day for newspapers in Myanmar, as new dailies hit the stands.
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Connect Asia Podcast 1st April 2013
A government report into last year's violence against Muslims in Myanmar has again been delayed, the impact of reproductive health laws in the Philippines and the weekend's Rugby Sevens news.
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Connect Asia Podcast 28th March 2013
On today's program, Thai peace talks begin in Malaysia, and reports Myanmar authorities reluctant to quell unrest.
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Connect Asia Podcast 27th March 2013
Muslims in Yangon concerned, as violence spreads in Myanmar; Philippines postpones MILF peace talks and difficulties faced by Pakistan's minority Christians
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Connect Asia Podcast 26th March 2013
Good intentions gone awry or child abuse? We look at an Australian orphanage shut down in Cambodia, and China's President tours Africa.
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Connect Asia Podcast 25th March 2013
Former President Musharraf returns to Pakistan contest; central Myanmar calm after days of communal violence and kidnapped Australian Rodwell mistaken for tourist
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Connect Asia Podcast 22nd March 2013
On today's program, central Myanmar locks down after deadly protests, and is it Burma or Myanmar?
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Connect Asia Podcast 21st March 2013
On today's program, Cambodia to cremate former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary, and North Korea suspected in South Korea cyber attack.
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Connect Asia Podcast 20th March 2013
Malaysian minister denies allegations of corrupt land sales; Burma activists gain unexpected meeting with Thein Sein reps in Sydney and the Indonesian Government considering cattle breeding farm in Australia
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Connect Asia Podcast 19th March 2013
On today's program, $1.6bn extra each year to fight drug resistant TB: health bodies. Also China now world's fifth-largest arms exporter.
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Connect Asia Podcast 18th March 2013
China National People's Congress environment surprise; Myanmar President makes historic visit to Australia and Malaysia's oppossition coalition policy on limiting executive powers
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Connect Asia Podcast 15th March 2013
An upbeat assessment from the UNDP about billions of people lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years. The challenge of dealing with post traumatic stress among Australian soldiers
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Connect Asia Podcast 14th March 2013
On today's program, humble Argentinian elected Pope, and pollution takes centre stage at National People's Congress.
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Connect Asia Podcast 13th March 2013
Is it a brave new world of media reform. Could the next pope be Asia?
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Connect Asia Podcast 12th March 2013
On today's program, a full inquiry will be held into the death of one of the suspects in the Delhi gang-rape case amid claims from his family of foul play AND from on-field embarrassment to off-field crisis: just what's going on with Australia's cricket team?
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Connect Asia Podcast 11th March 2013
On the program today, Aung Sun Suu Kyi's party, the NLD, wants to bring democracy to Burma but who will bring democracy to the NLD? And, Hamid Karzai says the United States is in secret collusion with the Taliban to sow fear in Afghanistan.
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Connect Asia Podcast 8th March 2013
A proposed bill in the Australian state of New South Wales would make it illegal to go to China for an organ transplant, and we look at violence against women, aid agencies want its elimination to be the cornerstone of global development policies.
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Connect Asia Podcast 7th March 2013
Malaysia continues its hunt for Philippine militants in Sabah state and the hunt for world war two British spitfires believed to have been buried in Burma is over.
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Connect Asia Podcast 6th March 2013
On today's program, more political drama in the Maldives as former president Mohamed Nasheed is detained and we hear from former Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda on why he wants SE Asia to do more to mediate the region's ongoing tensions with China.
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Connect Asia Podcast 5th March 2013
On today's program, China's National People's Congress under way in Beijing; a push by the international red cross to make the use of nuclear weapons illegal AND the conduct of the Indonesian military again under the spotlight in Papua.
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Connect Asia Podcast 4th March 2013
On today's program, a car bomb kills dozens in Karachi, and a photographic window into the lives of North Koreans.
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Connect Asia Podcast 1st March 2013
On today's program, the showdown between Red Shirt and Yellow Shirt-alligned parties in Thailand as Bangkok residents prepare to vote for a new Governor AND we speak to an Australian scientist who's visited the Lynas rare earths plant in Malayasia.
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Connect Asia Podcast 28th February 2013
On today's program, Australian police seize biggest haul of drug ice on record; US court allows Japan legal action against Sea Shepherd and Maldives media freedom questioned amid attacks on journalists.
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Connect Asia Podcast 27th February 2013
Media to remain locked out of Manus Island, Nauru detention centres; Sri Lankan security forces accused of using rape and torture and Cambodian report finds disabled women more vulnerable to abuse by family
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Connect Asia Podcast 26th February 2013
On today's program, a new report claims the trade in Chinese tigers bred legally on farms is fuelling poaching for skins and tiger bone wine AND compensation, finally, for victims of the Marcos regime in the Philippines.
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Connect Asia Podcast 25th February 2013
On today's program, the latest corruption allegation in Indonesia and what it means for SBY's Democratic Party going into the next election AND we ask the question 'Will the sun set on the Greater Sunrise agreement between East Timor, Australia and Woodside?'
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Connect Asia Podcast 22nd February 2013
On today's program, the latest from Hyderabad, which has been rocked by a major bomb attack, and we'll head into the sois of Bangkok to check out the emerging street art scene.
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Connect Asia Podcast 21st February 2013
On today's program, we speak to the chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri; Japan has announced the suspension of its annual whale hunt after a clash with activists at sea and we look at what China is doing to stamp-out corruption in football.
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Connect Asia Podcast 20th February 2013
On today's program, we speak to Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr from Laos AND the Chinese government has denied that an army unit in Shanghai is running a large-scale computer espionage operation.
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Connect Asia Podcast 19th February 2013
On today's program, we hear from a member of Malaysia's ruling coalition plus the daughter of Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim weighs in to the debate AND an incredible story from Japan where the company TEPCO is asking victims of the Fukishima nuclear meltdown to REPAY compensation.
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Connect Asia Podcast 18th February 2013
On today's program, the biggest rally in Singapore for decades calls for reform to immigration policies; infant formula is back in the spotlight in Asia AND we ask how Chinese investment in the US can overcome tensions and help foster trust between two very different Governments.
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Connect Asia Podcast 15th February 2013
Maldives says ex-president Nasheed free to leave Indian embassy; villages facing forced evictions in Burma's Thilawa zone and India engulfed in helicopter procurement scandal
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Connect Asia Podcast 14th February 2013
The latest dramatic turn of event in the Maldives, as the ousted President seeks refuge in the Indian embassy. Also we'll find out about a campaign urging Malaysians to fly home to vote, and a Malaysian-based airline offering cheap flights to do so.
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Connect Asia Podcast 13th February 2013
In today's program, we look at the options on the table for China in dealing with North Korea and it's nuclear provocations AND at the new measure taken by the Thai Government to try to quell the violence in the south.
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Connect Asia Podcast 11th February 2013
In today's program, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal once again running short of money - but is it a matter of cash or politics? The outgoing head of the NATO-led forces in Afghanistan says ISAF is winning the war against extremists And how to treat your Chinese dragon.
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Connect Asia Podcast 12th February 2013
In today's program, we look at the Pope's legacy in Asia as he prepares to step down at the end of the month. The plot thickens in Burma as the Government denies hacking the email accounts of journalists AND we hear a group of veteran foreign correspondents reminisce about their golden days in Cambodia and their memories of King Norodom Sihanouk.
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Connect Asia Podcast 8th February 2013
Japan's territorial disputes, Indonesian anti-terror squad killings prompt revenge attacks and the year of the snake good news for world economy
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Connect Asia Podcast 7th February 2013
Burma's president has appointed an opposition member of Parliament to the cabinet and Pakistan seeks to attract the words't top cricketers with its own 20/20 Super league. But will it succeed?
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Connect Asia Podcast 6th February 2013
Philippine rebel group, the MNLF prepares for another assault on the Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf. Also we get reaction from Singapore, to the European investigation that found a massive criminal syndicate thought to have fixed hundreds of football matches around the world, operating from the island nation.
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Connect Asia Podcast 5th February 2013
Europol discovers worldwide football match-fixing operation; New Delhi gang rape trial begins and Japanese pop star demoted after breaking relationship rules
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Connect Asia Podcast 4th February 2013
Australian government makes nine changes in cabinet reshuffle; Burma's KIA offers ceasefire and UNHCR slams Manus Island detention regime
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Connect Asia Podcast 1st February 2013
Cambodians gather to farewell former king; a Japanese whaling vessel enters Australian waters and China accusing of hacking US newspapers
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Connect Asia Podcast 31st January 2013
Australia gets set for its longest election campaign in history, while Malaysian citizens are kept guessing about when they will go to the polls.
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Connect Asia Podcast 30th January 2013
Washington introduces a new UN resolution on Sri Lankan human rights. A new report finds many of the world's largest arms traders have inadequate safeguards to prevent corruption. South Korea's outgoing president pardons a host of close aides in jail for corruption.
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Connect Asia Podcast 29th January 2013
Northern Queensland town faces worst flooding on record; Burma hits back at US embassy comments on Kachin conflict and Indonesia begins cloud seeding to avoid further flooding
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Connect Asia Podcast 28th January 2013
N.Korea orders 'high-profile measures' in response to UN sanctions; Ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald batters Australia's east coast and Singapore's ruling party defeated in by-election.
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Connect Asia Podcast 24th January 2013
On today's program, East Timor jails a former Justice Minister for corruption; a special panel reviewing India's rape laws has called for faster trials for sexual abuse cases and Burma to host its first international marathon since 1996.
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Connect Asia Podcast 23rd January 2013
The Australian PM launches National Security Strategy; North Korea hints at boosting military capabilities despite UN rebuke and sandalwood industry growing in Australia
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Connect Asia Podcast 22nd January 2013
On the program today, the Red Cross gets permission to visit prisons in Burma and plans to extend their operations in Rakhine state; the UN is planning to give peacekeepers drones for surveillance AND Tihar Idol, the singing program that's bringing hope to South Asia's biggest prison.
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Connect Asia Podcast 21st January 2013
The Burmese military breaks Kachin ceasefire, a growing deathtoll after Algerian hostage siege ends and the clean up continues in Jakarta after devastating floods
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Connect Asia Podcast 18th January 2013
Jakarta under water, and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal back on track for next week after health scares
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Connect Asia Podcast 17th January 2013
Thousands flee Jakarta floods, and UNHCR to visit suspected Rohingya refugees in Thailand
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Connect Asia Podcast 16th January 2013
Pakistan's supreme court issues an arrest warrant for prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on grounds of corruption, Sri Lanka's judiciary determined to challenge the appointment of the new chief justice and outrage continues to pour in Indonesia over the insensitive remarks made about rape by a Supreme Court nominee.
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Connect Asia Podcast 15th January 2013
Gang leader Hercules causes angst in East Timor and workers say military standover men enforcing low Nike wages
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Connect Asia Podcast 14th January 2013
Japan's Foreign Minister wraps up regional tour, and gun control demands escalate in the Philippines
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Connect Asia Podcast 11th January 2013
Australian-born beauty-queen jailed in Indonesia on corruption charges, and we go behind the iron curtain of North Korea as Google's chairman and a US diplomat wrap up their intriguing visit.
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Connect Asia Podcast 10th January 2013
Jail sentences for 13 activists in Vietnam, and Japan increases its military budget, much to the displeasure of China
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Connect Asia Podcast 9th January 2013
Maldives rape victim faces flogging for 'fornication', and soldier attack threatens Kashmir ceasefire agreement
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Connect Asia Podcast 8th January 2013
Reform to China's forced labour system welcome, Obama assembles new national security team and Thai TV channel axes political drama
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Connect Asia Podcast 7th January 2013
Indonesia's Marty Natalegawa to examine Burma's Rakhine State, and a Google search for NKorean business?
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Connect Asia Podcast 4th January 2013
Prominent Lao activist still missing and Indian police formally charge bus attackers with rape and murder.
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Connect Asia Podcast 3rd January 2012
China and Cambodia ink their biggest investment deal yet and we ask which aid programs will be sacrificed to help fund Australia's asylum seeker processing system.
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Connect Asia Podcast 2nd January 2013
East Timor's Jose Ramos Horta talks about his new role as UN special representative to the African nation of Guinea-Bissau, We hear about the mining boom in Mongolia, and a new law in China requiring adults to visit their elderly parents.
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Connect Asia Podcast 1st January 2013
Hong Kong police ready for conflicting protests, and prominent Chinese academics warn of upheaval without reform
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Connect Asia Podcast 31st December 2012
The United Nations Mission marks it's last day in East Timor - we'll discuss why it's being seen as one of the most successful UN interventions to date and the challenges ahead. A wrap of the social media stories that caught your attention throughout the year.
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Connect Asia Podcast 26th December 2012
Indonesia may boost beef imports as Muslims reel over reports of pork being used to susbsitute popular beef products and the UN General Assembly has once again expressed serious concern over the violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in Burma.
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Connect Asia Podcast 28th December 2012
Pakistan's Bhutto dynasty remains strong and alive with a new entrant into the political scene Bilawal Bhutto Zadari, and reports of more Muslim Rohingyas fleeing Burma for Malaysia.
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Connect Asia Podcast 27th December 2012
On today's program, China 's longest high speed rail route up and running AND the Australian Medical Association has issued a warning to travellers and party goers about one of Australia's top holiday destinations, Bali.
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Connect Asia Podcast 24th December 2012
Afghanistan's Taliban calls for new constitution as precondition for peace process, China looming large in Australia's defence plans and flatulence pants fly off the shelves for Christmas in Japan,
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Connect Asia Podcast 21st December 2012
The election in the Indian state of Gujarat seen as a litmus test for two men who may one day run for Prime Minister. A Cambodia court drops charges against a local official accused of shooting three young women at a garment factory protest. China appoints a new leader to the powerhouse province of Guangdong.
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Connect Asia Podcast 20th December 2012
We speak to the wife of a high-profile activist who disappeared 5 days ago in Laos, why Malaysia accepted 40 shipwreck survivors from Burma when they were turned away by Singapore and North Asian powers looking for a greater say in Arctic affairs.
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Connect Asia Podcast 19th December 2012
UN says that Pakistan killings will not stop anti-polio campaign, South Korea goes to the polls and caught on camera - the singing dog.
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Connect Asia Podcast 18th December 2012
On today's program, sabotage blamed for a deadly factory fire in Bangladesh AND Asian football's chief, Mohamed Bin Hammam, says he's sick of fighting corruption allegations and has resigned.
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Connect Asia Podcast 17th December 2012
On the program today, a Christmas truce looking likely for the fighters in southern Philippines as the area recovers from Typhoon Bopha AND a look at the result of Japan's election over the weekend.
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Connect Asia Podcast 14th December 2012
Australian Foreign Minister thinks East Timor ready to stand alone, a steep decline in Indian enrolments at Australian universities and the gay community in Cambodia surprised by Hun Sen's anti-discrimination speech.
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Connect Asia Podcast 13th December 2012
Brunei - 50 years under emergency rule, and UN condemns North Korea rocket launch.
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Connect Asia Podcast 12th December 2012
On the program today, the call for an Australian boycott of the Sri Lankan cricket team in light of human rights abuse allegations AND the importance of maps and land use planning in the "lost paradise" of northern Papua province
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Connect Asia Podcast 11th December 2012
Controversy over Gangnam Style artist Psy and his anti-American history and a fascinating insight into the mental illness of Japanese Princess Masako.
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Connect Asia Podcast 10th December 2012
On the program today, North Korea says it's postponing the launch of a rocket thought to be a disguised missile test AND protesters take to the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, angry at what they see as China's provocations on the South China Sea issue.
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Connect Asia Podcast 7th December 2012
Thailand's former PM could be facing a murder charge - but can the courts make it stick, and we delve into the world of Mongolian hip hop, which some claim is where it all began!
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Connect Asia Podcast 6th December 2012
India defies the International Olympic Committee and elects an official suspected of corruption, and we pay tribute to one of jazz music's all-time greats, and a familiar figure in the concert halls of Asia, Dave Brubeck.
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Connect Asia Podcast 5th December 2012
India's Olympic Association is suspended from the International Olympic Committee and NK faces fresh accusations over its use of foreign passports.
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Connect Asia Podcast 4th December 2012
On the program today, how a looming change in the law could save an Australian from the gallows in Malaysia; politicians in Canberra are urged to ensure women's rights are protected in post-war Afghanistan AND after the Socceroos scrape past Hong Kong in the East Asia Cup, we talk about football diplomacy.
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Connect Asia Podcast 1 3rd December 2012
On the program today, North Korea stirs up more controversy with plans for another rocket launch AND Aung San Suu Kyi to lead an investigation into violent protests at a Burmese mine.
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Connect Asia Podcast 30th November 2012
A security crack down in Burma on protesters at a Chinese owned copper mine. Two Indian journalists arrested in a cash for coverage scandal, and Oscar-nominated actor Rachel Griffiths explains why she's become patron of Hagar, an organisation that works with victims of human trafficking in Cambodia and Vietnam.
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Connect Asia Podcast 28th November 2012
New allegations about Bangladesh's most deadly textile factory fire,Japan's tech giants are warned to downsize if they want to survive and meet award winning photographer who has made it her mission to expose the devastating social consequences of child marriage.
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Connect Asia Podcast 29th November 2012
We look at why Asia's contribution to overseas aid is on the rise, and Burma's pay TV providers look to cash in on the people's passion for football.
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Connect Asia Podcast 27th November 2012
On today's podcast of the program, the UN again calls on Burma to improve its human rights record in Rakhine state AND a warning from a leading Chinese dissident and academic that the Cold War is far from over and that he will defend his right to free speech.
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Connect Asia Podcast 26th November 2012
On today's podcast of the program, thousands turn out to protest against the Malaysian government's National Education Blueprint AND we talk to the chairman of the board at the Global Fund to fight AIDS who's visiting Australia.
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Connect Asia Podcast 23rd November 2012
Compulsory military service in Taiwan to be a thing of the past, the 60th anniversary of the Colombo Plan and four Chinese nationals released after being held hostage for 18 months in the Columbian jungle.
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Connect Asia Podcast 22nd November 2012
A new corruption scandal in Cambodia takes the shine off recent progress in the battle against malaria, the American military returns to Subic Bay and North Korea threatens to shell a border island if South Korea holds a planned military drill.
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Connect Asia Podcast 21st November 2012
Hopes ASEAN trade talks will ease regional tensions, Malaysia's opposition asks for Australian help in tackling electoral fraud and Hong Kong researchers face backlash for national identity survey.
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Connect Asia Podcast 20th November 2012
ASEAN leaders disagree over handling of territorial disputes, calls for Indonesian workers with limited English to upskill in Australia and researchers to develop phone apps to improve food security
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Connect Asia Podcast 19th November 2012
Today, Barack Obama will become the first serving American president to visit Burma - but is his trip too premature? And what impact will it have on the country? Also, India's financial capital came to a standstill overnight, as hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Mumbai for the funeral of one of India's most colourful and divisive of politicians.
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Connect Asia Podcast 16th November 2012
Preparations underway in Cambodia for ASEAN, And China's new leadership has its 'work cut out' in Hong Kong.
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Connect Asia Podcast 15th November 2012
On today's podcast of the program, as Australia US Ministerial talks wrap up in Western Australia where does this leave, bilateral relations between the two countries AND the once-in-a-decade leadership transition in China is almost complete, but who is going to be at the Apex of Power in China?
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 14th November 2012
Researcher warns against 'Pakistanisation' of Indonesia, US President urged to use Cambodian visit to raise human rights issues and investor confidence in Mongolia rattled by legislation uncertainty
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 14th November 2012
US influence in Asia 'here to stay' says Clinton, Japan could go to early polls and India to step up training of India's military and police.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 13th Novemeber 2012
Calls for an independent inquiry into Sri Lankan prison riot, former Malaysian diplomat makes case for moderate Islam and the Philippines the new destination for English learning.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 13th November 2012
Australia launches inquiry into child sexual abuse, Burma's infrastructure shaken by quake and Indonesia's police force in need of image make over says academic.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 12th November 2012
On today's second podcast of the program, efforts to save China's endangered giant pandas as the species faces a new threat to its survival AND Pakistan's poorest families are to receive cash sums if their child attends school.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 12th November 2012
On today's first podcast of the program, why is Jiang Zemin still widely considered to be a man at the pinnacle of Chinese politics AND peace talks are set to resume between Afghanistan's government and the Taliban.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 9th November 2012
Australia announces it's willing to recommit to the Kyoto Protocol and Malaysian opponents of Lynas Plant vow to fight on.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 9th November 2012
With the Chinese leadership transition underway, we take a closer look at what led to the downfall of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai and the implications for the new party that will come into power
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 8th November 2012
Coverage of the Chinese leadership transition and South Korea's nuclear industry under the spotlight.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 8th November 2012
Regional leaders attending democracy forum in Indonesia and Philippines President takes on the Catholic Church over sex education.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 7th November 2012
Should Australia re-start military ties with Burma? And a conversation one of the five people nominated by the Papuan community to try to negotiate peace with the Indonesian Government.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 7th November 2012
Police from three nations cooperating to investigate a suspected paedophile network in Bali.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 6th November 2012
A scent of scandal hangs over the Melbourne Cup, Islamic radicalism a real threat in Malaysia and Australian PM in historic talks with Burma's president at ASEM.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 6th November 2012
Australia's suspension of live animal exports to Pakistan, an aid organisation says it's being prevented from assisting Burma's Rohingyas and Sri Lankan asylum seekers alleged to be economic migrants
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 5th November 2012
Questions over the independence of Japan's new nuclear watchdog.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 5th November 2012
World leaders urged to pressure Burmese President Thein Sein on the rights of Muslim Rohingyas.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 2nd November 2012
The UN reviews Sri Lanka's human rights record after the war.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 2nd November 2012
Plans to protect large areas of the Antarctic fall through after objections from China, Russia and the Ukraine.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 1st November 2012
Indian Muslims pose as Hindus to get jobs, Philippines Ex-President Gloria Arroyo denies 'Plunder' charges, and concerns linger over Chinese banks bad debt burden.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 1st November 2012
The Australian Government has introduced to Parliament it's long awaited Free-Trade Agreement with Malaysia, and a special representative of the Indonesian President says the country's poverty problem is far bigger than is claimed.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 31st October 2012
Australian researchers pave way for possible single dose malaria cure, Indonesia welcomes Australia's Asian White Paper and Australian hockey players in India
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 31st October 2012
Australian PM flags more troops for Afghanistan, the UN hands back power to East Timor police and Australia's immigration minister defends government back flip on mainland migration excision.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 30th October 2012
All the latest on Hurricane Sandy in US and we find out about the young bloods appointed to India's cabinet.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 30th October 2012
Typhoon Son-Tinh lashes Vietnam and fears about drug-resistant Malaria.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 29th October 2012
Extensive coverage of the policy white paper, Australia in the Asian Century.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 29th October 2012
Extensive coverage of the policy white paper, Australia in the Asian Century.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 26th October 2012
Dissident Ai Weiwei's 'Gangnam style' video banned in China, Amnesty welcomes death penalty change in Malaysia and PM Julia Gillard to outline Australia's Asian future.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 26th October 2012
Calls for the Burmese government to take action on violence in Rakhine State, Tokyo's maverick governor resigns and the IMF says Japan should look to greater women's participation in the workforce to bolster economic success.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 25th October 2012
In today's second podcast of the program, India's beer baron Vijay Mallya desperately looking around for a buyer for Kingfisher Airlines AND we look back at the life of seventies presidential candidate and anti-Vietnam war campaigner George McGovern who died this week.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 25th October 2012
In today's first podcast of the program, China opens the way for more nuclear power plants, lifting a moratorium put in place after Fukushima AND the latest on a string of self-immolations by Tibetans across Western China.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 24th October 2012
A Cambodian scholar suggests harmful effects of aid dependence, south Korean activists send propaganda balloons to the North and a new study explores the effects of turmeric therapy on cerebral malaria.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 24th October 2012
An UN report recommends banning of the death penalty; new clashes in Indonesia's Papua region and US presidential candidates turn their attention to swing states.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 23rd October 2012
On this part of the program, the call to keeps a count on asylum seeker deaths, a push for mandatory swimming lessons for Australian school children and former Olympus CEO speaks out on fraud scandal.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 23rd October 2012
On the program, Bangladesh border guards jailed for mutiny; Aceh churches forced to close and Japan's sad trade figures and what they mean for Asia.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 22nd October 2012
Yet another creature being hunted to dangerous levels for Chinese medicine, this time it's the manta ray.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 22nd October 2012
Calls for closer military ties between Australia and the Philippines, and Yakuza expert Jake Adelstein talks about the mobster links that threaten to bring down Japan's Justice Minister.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 19th October 2012
On the program, Ramos Horta lobbies the Australian government over oil and gas processing; the Taliban threatens a defiant media in Pakistan and crouching tigers, hidden economic numbers.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 19th October 2012
On the program today Australia wins a seat on the UN Security Council, Sri Lanka investigates asylum boat 'hijacking' and asylum seekers could spend up to five years in offshore detention.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 18th October 2012
How criminalising sex work in Asia impacts on HIV rates and Philippines President Benigno Aquino on the long hard road towards peace in the south.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 18th October 2012
Foxconn admits employing under-aged interns in China and we put the US Presidential candidates to the test and find out who was telling the truth about China.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 17th October 2012
On the program's second podcast today, Cambodia denies it's building a nuclear power plant, but says it might one day AND calls for more HIV testing and drug treatment, as the number of infections in Australia increases.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 17th October 2012
On the program today, Australia plans to strengthen its relationship with India AND King Norodom Sihanouk's body will be brought from Beijing to Cambodia today.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 16th October 2012
On this part of the program, South Asia: the world's hungriest region, safety concerns over India's nuclear reactors and the role of the media in reporting conflicts.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 16th October 2012
On the program today, peace agreements signed in Manila, Australian PM Julia Gillard talks uranium in India and turning boats back not mentioned in Abbott's Indonesia visit
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 15th October 2012
In Connect Asia's second podcast today, another blasphemy case in Pakistan -- this time involving a 16 year old boy.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 15th October 2012
In Connect Asia's first podcast today, we speak to the official biographer of former Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk, who has died overnight in Beijing. Julio Jeldres will tell us about his last days with the king about a week ago and the legacy of one of Asia's most talked-about figures.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 12th October 2012
NGO helping Indonesian families affected by Bali bombings, and rates of violent forced evictions increasing in China.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 12th October 2012
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings, an event being remembered in a series of ceremonies around the world, including in Bali and Australia.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 11th October 2012
On the International Day of the Girl Child we hear about underage marriage and other issues for young girls.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 11th October 2012
A Cambodian Gov't spokesman talks about allegations the gov't is trying to intimidate Radio Free Asia and discourage objective reporting.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 10th October 2012
On this part of the program, Pakistan launches pneumococcal vaccination program, calls for regulators to reject Tanzania's ivory sale and Bali still the destination of choice for many Australians
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 10th October 2012
On the program, the Australian speaker of the house resigns after dramatic day in parliament, the Maldives democratic future in question and Afghans pessimistic as humanitarian crisis worsens.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 9th October 2012
On this part of the program, The Himalayan region likely to face increasing floods, Burma rolls out the welcome mat for Australian investment and mental health concerns in Australia's Indian community.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 9th October 2012
On the program, Phillipines and MILF agree on tentative peace deal, the US warns that Chinese telecoms pose security threat and seeing the forest for the trees.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 8th October 2012
In Connect Asia's second podcast today, Malaysia's Deputy Youth & Sports Minister drops in for a chat AND Dr Shenggen Fan, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute, discusses the risk of not having enough food to feed people as the world's population grows.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 8th October 2012
In Connect Asia's first podcast today, new hopes for peace in Mindanao with a fresh peace framework announced in the Philippines AND Cambodia's Prime Minister sends thousands of university students out to measure properties in an effort to fast-track land titles.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 5th October 2012
On this part of the program, marking the anniversary of the Bali bombing, Sam Rainsy, head of the new Cambodia National Rescue Party, live in the studio and research to reduce manganese mining risks in West Timor
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 5th October 2012
On the program. fresh accusations of rights abuses in Papua and green groups dispute findings of Europe nuclear stress tests.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 4th October 2012
On this part of the program, Asian agriculture chief holds talks to prevent regional food crisis, Australia tapping into Mongolia's resources boom and killers re-enact Indonesia's1965 massacre violence in new film.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 4th October 2012
On the program, Burma's displaced Kachins missing out on foreign aid, migration linked to rights abuses and millions of factory workers strike in Indonesia.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 3rd October 2012
On this part of the program, music and arts festival kicks off in Kabul, an Australian mining group rejects Singaporean and South Korean bid and scientists discover a rice disease strain in Western Australia
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 3rd October 2012
On the program today, thousands displaced in Pakistan floods, the former Maldives President facing arrest for trial boycott and the Australian immigration minister tours offshore processing centres.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 2nd October 2012
In Connect Asia's second podcast today, a possible breakthrough in fighting dengue fever by using the mosquito's own defense systems against itself AND ousted Maldivian leader Mohamed Nasheed sets sail, temporarily fleeing what he says is a "fabricated court".
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 2nd October 2012
In Connect Asia's first podcast today, we hear from INTERPOL about the role Southeast Asia plays in the multi-Billion dollar illegal timber trade AND International rights groups and a dozen Cambodian NGOs have condemned the sentencing of the owner of one of the country's few independent radio stations to 20 years jail for incitement.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 1st October 2012
We'll find out more about a bank scandal in Vietnam that's claimed another scalp.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 1st October 2012
Why is Japan suddenly executing prisoners, after the government promised to hold a referendum on the death penalty?
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 28th September 2012
On this part of the program, an in depth discussion as South Asian community leaders lobby for service access in Australia
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 28th September 2012
On the program today, Australian leaders downplay UN Security Council prospects, the brutal sheep slaughter in Pakistan risking Australia's live export trade and swing to nationalists predicted for Japan polls.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 27th September 2012
Australia's Ambassador to Burma, and Tibetan chanting.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 27th September 2012
Chinese animation and a conversation with "the fresh prince of Seoul" Jay Park, an American born Korean superstar.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 25th September 2012
On the program, Australian Foreign Minister steps in for sick PM on US trip, Burma's president to lobby for end to sanctions at UN General Assembly and Vietnamese bloggers handed heavy jail sentences.
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Connect Asia 2 Podcast 26th September 2012
An interview with Trade Minister Craig Emmerson about doing business with India, and the dumbest pin numbers we use for our bank cards.
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Connect Asia 1 Podcast 26th September 2012
China has officially launched it's first aircraft carrier, and an exclusive interview with former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser talking about US-Australia relations in the Asian Century.
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