This show is made up entirely of amateur images. We've seen time and time again how images captured by ordinary citizens then uploaded onto the Web can change history, or at least shift the balance of power. This week, we take a look back at some of those moments.
This show is made up entirely of amateur images. We've seen time and time again how images captured by ordinary citizens then uploaded onto the Web can change history, or at least shift the balance of power. This week, we take a look back at some of those moments.
First, we take a look at the allegations behind increasingly tense relations between Pakistan and the US. Next, in Japan, it seems no amount of reassurance and procedure can lay fears of radiation and food safety to rest. Finally, with Chinese women giving up on country life, lonely farmers turn to "imported wives", with disastrous consequences.
On today’s show, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia come together for the first time at a Paris event - we meet the photojournalist who is taking us off the tourist trail with his beautiful photos of Indochina. But first, Roman Polanski is awarded a lifetime achievement award at the very festival he was arrested at two years ago, and Morocco's Tanjazz festival gets music lovers on their feet.
Supporters of the Syrian regime run an online campaign against foreign press. Vietnamese net users express rage against their Chinese neighbour.
And a literature fan will summarise James Joyce’s Ulysses via
Twitter.
China and Vietnam traded accusations late Thursday after a Vietnamese exploration vessel clashed with a Chinese fishing boat in a segment of the South China Sea both sides claim as their own.
We’re heading for Musée du Luxembourg in Paris which has recently reopened for an exhibition of Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the greatest 16th century German painters. Plus we visit the latest photography exhibition "Henri Huet's Vietnam" at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie.
Tourists from Australia, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and the US died along with their Vietnamese tour guide when a boat sank in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay early Thursday, killing 12 people. Fifteen others survived the incident.
Acclaimed architect Reda Amalou tells France 24's Tom Burges Watson about his latest projet in Vietnam, the Six Senses Con Dao. Green and Chic, it is benchmarked by Green Globe 21, the sustainable development, construction and operation label by the World Tourism Organization.
We take a look at how ideology and modern reality sit together in Vietnam, a one party state.
China's leader Hu Jintao admits there's "a lot" to be done over human rights. They caused a stir in western countries, but these words were hardly picked up by Chinese media.
Forget Val d'Isere and Whistler, it seems the Indian resort of Gulmarg is the place to ski this winter...
