Assignment Asia is a unique weekly magazine program. It features reports, interviews and first-person accounts to highlight issues and reflect the vibrant and diverse cultures that make up the vast continent of Asia. Assignment Asia is driven by strong characters. Through their personal stories, we uncover social issues that affect a wide population in one of the most vibrant areas of the world. Assignment Asia is visually stunning, using some of the most creative visual storytellers from across the region. Most importantly, Assignment Asia is about storytelling. Not just reporting facts.
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Challenging Gender Norms
Between male belly dancers in Turkey and female guards in India, this episode features stories of people challenging gender norms across Asia.
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Operation: Drug War
Since President Rodrigo Duterte took office and declared a war on drugs, hundreds of people have been killed in that "war."
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Forced to Fight: Children On Myanmar's Battlefields
The long-running civil war in Myanmar has forced the country's young into the front lines.
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Art, Tradition, and Identity
Miniature painting in Istanbul, lion dancing in China, and using rap to preserve culture in China.
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Xinjiang: The Pains and Gains of Development
China is undergoing development at a dramatic pace fueled by decades of economic growth. But perhaps nowhere in the country is the process more complicated than in Xinjiang.
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Heroin's Hold On Myanmar
There are few corners of Asia where heroin is so pure, cheap and readily available as Northern Myanmar. Myanmar is now one of the worst consumers of this illegal narcotic.
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Transformation
Anchor Tony Cheng brings us two stories of people trying to change their lives.
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Gun Violence in the Philippines
Reporter Barnaby Lo in Manila takes us on an in depth investigation of guns and the debate over gun control in the island nation.
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Thailand's Missing Children
This week in a single topic episode, reporter Dusita Saokaew in Pattaya, Thailand tells the story of a mother's desperate search for her daughter. "Gigi" a 9 year old girl selling flowers on a street corner becomes a victim of a kidnapping. The case exposes the dark world of gangs and pedophilia in Thailand.