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Asia Specific — 93 episodes

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Inside Australia's plan to beat the algorithm

2

Why are Australia’s native animals going extinct?

3

Can Indonesia stop SE Asia’s annual smoke haze?

4

Is Hong Kong cinema’s golden age over?

5

The AI data centre boom in South East Asia

6

What if leaving your bedroom felt impossible?

7

Bonus: What caused Nepal’s deadly flash floods?

8

Why are lab monkeys so expensive?

9

The fight to define ‘Asian pop’ at the Grammys

10

Why North East Asia is wary of immigration

11

The politics around China’s own ‘manosphere’

12

Why Thailand welcoming Myanmar’s leader caused anger

13

Are the glory days of cheap flights in Asia over?

14

Bonus: Why does Trump care about the Japanese yen?

15

Can China deal with a huge graduate glut?

16

What is behind Vietnam’s counterfeit crackdown?

17

Why people in China aren’t spending

18

Why more countries are favouring China over the US

19

China's humanoid robot boom

20

Inside a major baby trafficking trial in Indonesia

21

Why armed men killed a US pilot in Indonesia

22

Why can’t Japan have a female emperor?

23

Thailand’s sex worker legal limbo

24

Are microdramas the future of entertainment?

25

Why cancer patients are travelling to China

26

What makes a Pokemon card worth millions?

27

Is North Korea getting richer?

28

Will Japan turn away from pacifism?

29

Asia’s affordable housing problem

30

Could changing the way we date solve Asia's low fertility rates?

31

Could an Asian team win the World Cup?

32

Bonus: Xi Jinping's North Korea visit

33

Thailand’s tourism challenge

34

South Korea’s stock boom

35

Asia’s 'irrelevant' uni degree question

36

The US-China robotaxi race

37

The Philippines beauty pageant controversy

38

Why North Korea became a women's football powerhouse

39

Bali’s rubbish crisis

40

The US-China problem

41

Is India’s internet becoming more like China’s?

42

Can China reverse a billion-dollar tech deal?

43

New Zealand and India’s trade deal row

44

Can Vietnam still reach its growth target?

45

Japan’s megaquake threat

46

Indonesia’s US airspace deal risks China ties

47

Who’s winning the EV race?

48

Thailand’s complicated relationship with tourism

49

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, one year on

50

Bonus: What an Iran US ceasefire means for Asia

51

Who is leading the race to the Moon?

52

Bonus - Inheritance: Samsung

53

Is Australia seeing an immigration backlash?

54

The billion dollar return of K-pop kings BTS

55

South East Asia’s oil shortage fears

56

What message does the Iran war send to Asia’s nuclear powers?

57

The US-China crypto split

58

Can China’s economy survive global shocks?

59

Is AI threatening Japan’s manga industry?

60

China warns against ‘law of the jungle’ after US-Israeli strikes on Iran

61

The boom in queer romance shows

62

Marcos v Duterte: The family feud shaking the Philippines

63

Inside Singapore’s war on vapes

64

Bonus: South Korea’s former leader convicted for insurrection

65

Why don’t Chinese workers get more leave?

66

The pressure to be thin in Asia

67

What do Thailand’s election results mean?

68

Bonus: Japan PM’s landslide election win

69

Malaysia's football scandal

70

Bonus: What in the World

71

The daughter who could rule North Korea

72

China's extraordinary purge of military leaders

73

Why the Philippines’ most valuable export is its people

74

Japan's snap election: Inside Takaichi’s political gamble

75

Why South Korea keeps jailing its ex-presidents

76

Can electric bikes save Vietnam's most polluted cities?

77

Which Asian country has the world's best passport and why?

78

How do journalists cover a disputed election in Myanmar?

79

Inside South Korea's K-beauty obsession

80

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

81

The paradise island nation caught between the US, Taiwan and China

82

Food, flags and feuds: Why Asians fight over cuisine

83

Can Prabowo Subianto finally unleash Indonesia’s potential?

84

Jimmy Lai verdict: From Hong Kong activist to national security criminal

85

Bonus: Bondi shooting tests Australia’s social cohesion

86

Science and solutions to prevent a repeat of South East Asia’s huge floods

87

Special episode: Thailand-Cambodia peace shattered

88

Trump: the man who made Asia reimagine the US

89

Is banning children from social media smart or excessive?

90

China tries to control anger over the Hong Kong fire

91

Asia’s soft power battle: Has the Korean Wave peaked?

92

The Japan-China feud: Why has it reignited?

93

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