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The New Koreans: Portrait of pride, prosperity and defiance
Asia focus, Alexi Demetriadi, Published on 11/09/2017
» "If you didn't know who he was, he just seemed like an old Korean gent," says Michael Breen. "He was polite, humorous, diplomatic. But because we knew who he was …"
Working for change
Asia focus, Alexi Demetriadi, Published on 04/09/2017
» Southeast Asia hosts nearly 10 million migrants, of whom roughly 7 million originate from countries within the region. The main component of migration involves the movement of lower-skilled labour, predominantly from Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos to Thailand.
Slaves at sea
Asia focus, Alexi Demetriadi, Published on 04/09/2017
» "Working on a boat faced with violence and abuse, in the middle of the ocean where you couldn't see the shore, it seems like there was no future for us at all."
Fast train to where, exactly?
Asia focus, Published on 14/08/2017
» Described by the British historian Peter Hopkirk as "the greatest assistance to the civil power in the administration of the country", an expansive railway network can bring prosperity to the settlements alongside its rails and the region it serves.
Sharks under siege
Asia focus, Published on 07/08/2017
» "Sharks are being killed in every single ocean all around the world, by every country and by any fisherman," says Gary Stokes of the international conservation group Sea Shepherd.
Beacon of hope
Asia focus, Published on 24/07/2017
» Sitting down with Hyeonseo Lee at a coffee shop in the Jongno district of central Seoul, one can easily understand why anyone who doesn't know her would mistake her for someone from the upper echelons of South Korean life.
Escape from North Korea
Asia focus, Alexi Demetriadi, Published on 24/07/2017
» 'I left my home in North Korea in August 2014," Joon Hee recalls. A North Korean defector who has been living and working in Seoul for almost three years, she is like the hundreds of others who make the journey through China to South Korea, seeking a better life in the south.
The Korean reunification challenge
Asia focus, Published on 17/07/2017
» It has been a busy few months in the Korean Peninsula, not that it was ever quiet.
Under the black flag
Asia focus, Published on 17/07/2017
» In September 2012, the Philippine police discovered a black flag in the Abu Sayyaf camp of Khair Mundos. By May 2017, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) appeared to be gaining a foothold in the southern Philippines.
Portraits of despair
Asia focus, Published on 10/07/2017
» A year ago, Gracia Fellmeth, a public health doctor studying for a PhD at the University of Oxford, was researching depression in women before and after childbirth in Mae La, the largest of the nine refugee camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border.