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Wednesday May 2, 2012
May 3 & 6, 2012: from China - Toulouse, France - India - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Amsterdam
From our correspondents around the world...
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China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai is the subject of one of two scandals threatening the Chinese Communist establishment. His wife has been implicated in the death of a British businessman. (Photo: Reuters) |
The F-word erupts into French presidential politics. Are foreigners the future of the Gallic identity or its undoing? The campaign revives a rift.
Then, hate camps versus haute couture. A new documentary examines why some girls in India are subjugated, while others are liberated.
In Haiti, the lacklustre government moves to appease restless former soldiers with the promise of a payday but there's a Fifth Column to worry about.
And, a sting on wheels. Bicycle theft in free-wheeling Amsterdam pushes our correspondent to extremes.
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Wednesday April 25, 2012
April 26 & 29, 2012: from Baku, Azerbaijan - Mumbai, India - Manila, the Philippines - Copenhagen, Denmark - Shanghai, China
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Danish film director Mads Brugger in a scene from The Ambassador. He posed as a diplomat and arranged to smuggle diamonds from Africa. Here he takes a boat ride with his new assistants in the Central African Republic. (Photo/The Ambassador) |
Stop with the honking! The quest for quiet in one of India's noisiest cities.
A Danish filmmaker turns diamond-smuggling diplomat. Mads Brugger sets up a sting in central Africa.
And, the rebellious new farmers of China. Young. Well-educated. And getting no respect.
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Thursday April 5, 2012
Turkish minorities tread carefully in opening doors to multi-culturalism
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People in Instanbul enjoy the newly-revived Baklahorani Carnival. What was once a pagan Christian rite, has morphed into one of the few celebrations of Turkey's multi-cultural past and present. Dominant Turkish nationalism has made its organizers tread with caution. (Photo/Meghan MacIver) |
Dancing to the tune of reconciliation
But now it seems, times are changing, ever so slightly.
Canadian journalist Meghan MacIver has found some Greeks and Turks dancing to the same tune at an unusual, and very historic party in Istanbul.
The April 5 Dispatches program
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Thursday March 22, 2012
The trials of Tweeting in China
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Twitter may be blocked in China, but the Chinese have Sina Weibo, which the government tries to police but may already have lost hold of. (Photo: Reuters) |
Instead, the state permits the Chinese version -- something called Sina Weibo. The principles are similar to Twitter. The parameters, not so much.
Not when Big Brother has its algorithmic finger posed above delete, just waiting to wipe out any sign of dissent in those 140 characters on Weibo.
That hasn't stopped hundreds of millions of Chinese from signing up. It just means they have to find clever ways around it.
Author Rachel DeWoskin has been looking into it. She lived in China for five years in the 90s, writing and consulting and eventually becoming a TV star in a hugely-popular Chinese program similar to Sex and the City. Her findings appeared in a recent edition of Vanity Fair magazine. She joined Rick from Chicago.
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Thursday March 22, 2012
Help for kids of India sex workers
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Kalaivani was forced into sex work after her husband died and she had a family to support. Now she counsels women in Chennai's sex trade, and is proud that her two children have become educated professionals. (Photo: Priya Sankaran) |
The March 22 Dispatches program
(There are no photos of the children or their teacher, to protect them all)
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Baby was a sex worker for years. She describes all of the bribes they have to pay each night they work.(Photo: Priya Sankaran) |
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Thursday March 15, 2012
China's painful healing, with bee-stings
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Worker bees: Bees are traditional health workers in China, stinging to help cure what ails you. (Photo: Danielle Nerman) |
And while the bee therapy did cure the sinus problem, after the treatment Danielle developed a huge swelling in her neck on the side where she got the full sting. It took a week to go away.
If you've got a story of unorthodox medicine, maybe pictures of it from your time in some faraway place, email dispatches@cbc.ca
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