Correspondents Notebook
Each week, a Radio Australia journalist or commentator offers a personal perspective on a major news story or current issue from the Asia Pacific region.
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4 Episodes of this Podcast:
New Delhi’s charm
Published: 2009-11-06 00:15:50Australia Network’s South Asia correspondent, Michael Edwards takes a look at New Delhi and it’s preparations for next year’s Commonwealth Games. There are big question marks over New Delhi’s ability to host next year’s Commonwealth Games. For the most part they’ve been about the facilities. The fact that many are well behind schedule for completion has been [...]
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Malaysia: united or divided?
Published: 2009-10-30 02:25:06Radio Australia’s Sen Lam considers Malaysia’s political future and whether the Pakatan alliance can bring the country’s diverse ethnic groups together. There was a time when posters selling Malaysia as a holiday destination featured four models in ethnic dress. A beaming Chinese lady, in a cheong-sam, with high Mandarin collar. A sari-clad Indian siren, draped in swathes [...]
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Moths descend on Australian capital
Published: 2009-10-23 03:16:49Radio Australia’s Linda Mottram considers the annual migration of bogong months to Parliament House in Canberra. They are moths. Agrotis Infusa is the Latin name. They are plain and brown, about two or three centimetres long, and one of the few moth species that migrates annually to a particular place and then returns to its [...]
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Sorrow of Samoa’s White Sunday
Published: 2009-10-15 20:58:08Pacific correspondent Campbell Cooney thought he was prepared emotionally for reporting the disaster of the Samoan tsunami. But the reality, he discovered, was different. For nearly a fortnight, I have been in Samoa reporting on the aftermath of the tsunami, which struck it, American Samoa, and Tonga. Just over two years ago I’d travelled to the Western Province of [...]
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