Asia: May 2010 Archives
Thursday May 27, 2010
May 27 & 30: from Harare - Kabul - New York - Nanjing
Get rich or die trying," says the man in Zimbabwe with illegal diamonds to sell. Our correspondent hears there's more death to go 'round than dollars.
What's wrong with Hamid Karzai, and can the Afghan president be fixed? Some answers from a soldier and a former diplomat who've seen his work up close.
For cocaine possession Amir Amma went away for 25-to-life, a sentence more fit for a murderer. But times are changing in New York, and so is he.
And, the suicide-catcher of Nanjing. Why does a man devote his life to stopping people trying to end theirs? Maybe he's saving his own.
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Thursday May 6, 2010
May 6 & 9: from Athens - Chernobyl - Johannesburg - Viengxay
Greece gets a bailout but will Greeks pay their dues? And their overdue taxes?
Why Chernobyl still smoulders, and Ukrainians still get burned, 24 years after the world's worst nuclear accident.
South Africa's ruling party has a new bad boy, and this time it's not the president, but it is his problem.
And, Laos spills its secrets from the Vietnam era. The war that just keeps on going, no matter whose side you were on.
Read more »Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Past Episodes
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- Britain is bracing for clashes with right-wing extremists and possible copycat attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier although an official say no specific threats had been detected.
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- new Jet with smoking engine lands safely at Heathrow
- A British Airways jet made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport Friday after developing a technical problem after takeoff. TV footage showed smoke streaming from one of the engines.
- 3-D printing of airway tube helps save U.S. baby
- In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.
- new Swedish capital rocked by 5th night of riots
- Stockholm suburbs suffer a fifth straight night of unrest as rioters burn two schools and 15 cars, and try to damage a police station.