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Pakistan/US: heading for a break-up?

Anger reaches fever pitch on the streets of Pakistan after a NATO attack killed two dozen of its soldiers. How will Washington salvage ties? Meanwhile, the operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima plant says the meltdown may be worse than it first thought - an eyewitness report takes us to the heart of the damage. Finally, we head to South Korea where the state offers substantial rewards to people who grass up law-breakers.

02/08/2009 - THE WEEK IN ASIA

Violence flares up before Afghan election

In this edition: violence increases ahead of Afghanistan’s presidential election in August; the verdict in the trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is postponed; and why there is a shortage of retirement homes in Japan.
27/07/2009 - THE WEEK IN ASIA

Child abductions on the rise in China

In this edition: A look at the worrying phenomenon of child abductions in China; China's space race ambitions; the perilous return of displaced people in the Swat valley; and an unusual cafe in Japan.
20/07/2009 - THE WEEK IN ASIA

Rebiya Kadeer, the woman speaking for the Uighur minority

The Week in Asia introduces Rebiya Kadeer, who Beijing claims is responsible for the unrest in the Xinjiang, looks at why terrorism has resurfaced in Indonesia and highlights the difficulties for refugees in Sri Lanka.
13/07/2009 - THE WEEK IN ASIA

Meeting the Chinese Uighur minority

In this edition: at look at the Chinese Uighur population, involved in recent ethnic conflict with the Han people; why young Japanese people are no longer interested by sumo; we ask Pakistani women why they wear the burqa.

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