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Radio Show: A market price on petty corruption
Article: Nepal's first sex shop a Sweet...
Radio Show: The city as a giant Bollywood stage
On this week's South Asia Wired: most Bollywood films are shot in India, but sometimes film producers travel the world to find exotic locations for their films. Ski slopes in Switzerland, wealthy characters living in New York or...
Article: Dutch diapers a clean solution for Bangladesh
Mishu is a 15-year-old boy from Bangladesh. He is disabled. His father left when he found out about Mishu’s condition. His mother remarried, but her new husband refused to take care of Mishu. For many parents in Bangladesh taking...
Article: Bollywood bid by The Hague
Imagine watching Bollywood’s latest smash flick in a cinema somewhere in India, with its traditional boy-meets-girl storylines and the inevitable big song-and-dance number, and suddenly you see images of the Dutch city of The Hague....
Article: Is Burma thawing?
Myanmar’s Prison Department has released more than 6000 prisoners from prisons around the country. The list includes 300 political prisoners. Several high profile prisoners are featured on the list, like the comedian Zargana who was...
Article: Asian women victims of modern slavery in Lebanon
On average, one domestic worker dies every week in Lebanon – either by suicide or by accident while attempting to escape from employers who keep them locked indoors. Many of these women come from Sri Lanka and other (South)...
Article: Soni Sori: another victim of Chhattisgarh authorities?
It’s a shaky video taken on a mobile phone and people keep milling about in front of the camera so you have to wait to get a clear shot of the woman lying, with her face in shadows. Her name is Soni Sori, who is currently in custody...
Article: Afghan artists using a window of opportunity to express themselves
Malek Shafi is busy putting up banners advertising Afghanistan’s first human rights film festival. “You see the unusual responsibilities that being the director of a film festival in this country can entail?” he asks...
Article: Female sterilisation: India's all-or-nothing birth control
Eighty percent of women in India undergo sterilisation as a method of birth control according to a study by the Earth Policy Institute. Most of those women opt for a tubectomy when they’re only in their mid-20s. It’s partly...
Article: A quiet revolution in maternal health care
Nargis gently moves her stethoscope over 18 year old Taslima’s swollen belly, stopping to listen to the shy monosyllabic answers. “Are you having pain?” “No”. “Are you eating three times a...
Radio Show: Floating clinics on the Brahmaputra
A few years ago Sanjoy Hazarika, founder of the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (CNES), had a "Eureka!" moment. While he was filming along the Brahmaputra river in north east India, he stopped off on Majoli...
