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Asia Specific Episodes

  1. 22/11/2026 GMT

    Essential insights and conversations on the stories shaping the Asia-Pacific region

  2. 15/11/2026 GMT

    Essential insights and conversations on the stories shaping the Asia-Pacific region

  3. Asia Specific

    Essential insights and conversations on the stories shaping the Asia-Pacific region

  4. Asia Specific

    Essential insights and conversations on the stories shaping the Asia-Pacific region

  5. 24/10/2026 GMT

    Essential insights and conversations on the stories shaping the Asia-Pacific region

  6. Does China copy or create?

    Critics have long accused China of copying, stealing and scaling up innovations

  7. Inside Japan’s fury with the US

    US bases in Okinawa under scrutiny after military personnel arrested for murder

  8. Why Vietnam’s coffee beans might outlast others

    Robusta coffee is holding up far better than arabica as the climate warms

  9. Why China’s Gen Z is turning to spirituality

    China’s youth are trying buying luck in uncertain times

  10. An awkward accident shines a spotlight on Hyrox

    Hyrox athlete apologises after Beijing controversy - can the fitness craze keep growing?

  11. Why are Australia’s native animals going extinct?

    Why Australia's conservation efforts aren’t working

  12. Is Hong Kong cinema’s golden age over?

    The city was once one of Asia’s great filmmaking capitals

  13. Are more youths in Asia becoming antisocial?

    Hikikomori: Can AI get Asian shut-ins out of their rooms?

  14. The fight to define ‘Asian pop’ at the Grammys

    BTS rejects the Grammys’ new Asian pop category

  15. The politics around China’s own ‘manosphere’

    China has a growing “manosphere” but it looks nothing like the West

  16. Are the glory days of cheap flights in Asia over?

    Rising fuel prices are squeezing Asia’s budget airlines - what happens next?

  17. Vietnam’s counterfeit crackdown

    Counterfeit and pirated goods are estimated to be almost half-a-trillion US dollars,

  18. Why more countries are favouring China over the US

    Why is China more popular than the US?

  19. Inside a major baby trafficking trial in Indonesia

    Could adopted babies from Indonesia have been trafficked into Singapore?

  20. Asia Specific

    Essential insights and conversations on the stories shaping the Asia-Pacific region

  21. Asia Specific

    Essential insights and conversations on the stories shaping the Asia-Pacific region

  22. Will Japan turn away from pacifism?

    Japan’s government wants to change the pacifist constitution

  23. Why the Philippines’ most valuable export is its people

    Will a day come when Filipinos won’t need to leave their families behind to find work?

  24. Why Thailand welcoming Myanmar’s leader caused anger

    Thailand rolls out the red carpet for Myanmar’s leader as war rages

  25. Why South Korea keeps jailing its ex-presidents

    The former President Yoon Suk Yeol faces up to ten years in prison

  26. Why people in China aren’t spending

    China wants its people to spend more. So why aren't they?

  27. Why North Korea became a women's football powerhouse

    North Korea’s women footballers head to the South amid political tension

  28. Why North East Asia is wary of immigration

    Japan tightens immigration rules amid population decline

  29. Why more countries are favouring China over the US

    Why is China more popular than the US?

  30. Why many in Taiwan dismiss China’s threat to blockade and invade their island

    China claims its latest military drills show the goal of taking Taiwan is getting closer

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