asia

Century after century, China’s regal emperors mobilized immense peasant armies to accomplish engineering feats unparalleled in human history. (44 min)

Multi-award winning feature film, Children of God explores the life and plight of street children who live beside the Baghmati River in Kathmandu. (90 min)

A severe summer drought followed by an extra harsh winter has decimated the livestock in Mongolia and may inextricably end Mongolian nomadic culture. (4:17 min)

Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Sri Lanka to see how the Tamil Tigers, one of the world’s most lethal and influential terrorist organizations, were finally defeated. (22:33 min)

The Mekong river, which supports the livelihoods of about 60 million people in Southeast Asia, is at record-low water levels. China has built four of its planned eight hydroelectric dams on the upper Mekong. (2:44 min)

Anthony Bourdain and the No Reservations crew were in Bangkok Thailand during Songkran March 2009 when unrest and riots erupted in the country. Consequently, they tell a story similar to mine since I was there at the same time. (43 min)

The grandson of Ieyasu, Tokugawa Iemitsu, tightens control over Japan’s warlords and expels all foreigners. (55 min)

To bring this story, FRANCE 24’s reporters defied a ban on entering the island of Jolo, south Philippines, where Islamist group Abu Sayyaf has been multiplying abductions of foreigners. (17:26 min)