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Stories from the New Silk Road: Space
China's Belt and Road Initiative stretches physically with infrastructure projects across the globe, but there is one initiative that is the most amb…
1 year, 5 months ago
BBC Trending: Woman, life, surveillance
The Iranian government is not coy about its silence tactics. Since Iran's Woman Life Freedom Movement began on 16 September 2022, unlawful executions…
1 year, 5 months ago
The great dolphin release
Johnny, Rocky and Rambo were performers in the world’s last travelling dolphin circus and inside a Bali hotel swimming pool. This is the story of the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Assignment: Ageing without a safety net in Malaysia
Industrialisation, modern cityscapes and strong economic growth promote an image of a youthful, vigorous Malaysia. But the country is now ageing rapi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Global Dancefloor: Tbilisi
Frank McWeeny heads to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, to meet the underground music community leading protests against government clampdown on freedom of…
1 year, 5 months ago
In the Studio: Lenin Tamayo and Q-pop
Peruvian singer Lenin Tamayo has been dubbed the founder of ‘Q-pop’. He combines traditional Andean folk music with K-pop inspired instrumentation an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Solutions Journalism: The African 'Babelfish'
Africa is home to around one-third of the world's languages, but only a smattering of them are available online and in translation software. So when …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Fifth Floor: Exam nightmares
Why are exams so stressful? Chinese journalists Wanqing Zhang and Eric Junzhe share personal memories about the infamous Gaokao exam in China, which …
1 year, 5 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Are we still in love with dating apps?
For millions of us, our phones or computers are the first place we go to look for romance. Dating apps are a multi-billion dollar business, and for a…
1 year, 5 months ago
Heart and Soul: Indigenous healing on the party island of Ibiza
Ibiza is an island of contrasts. A place which triggers thoughts of raucous partying, superstar DJs and excess. But it's also an area of raw natural …
1 year, 5 months ago