麻豆约拍

Chicago and Sweden

Venturing into the sometimes dangerous South Side of Chicago and being Jewish in Sweden

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Nelson Mandela dies

Live coverage of events in South Africa and reaction from around the world

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Memories of Mandela

Hear from the 麻豆约拍 correspondents who witnessed how Nelson Mandela changed South Africa

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China

Using South China Sea islands for peace, not war, and young Westerners working in China.

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In Holy Footsteps

Sacred places and how to reach them, from Jerusalem to eastern Turkey

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Syria, Jordan and Brazil

The gallows humour of wounded Syrians in Amman; trouble over dams and mines in the Amazon

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Syria and Burma

The real beliefs of the foreigners fighting Assad; Burmese daze on a train to Mandalay

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Tanzania and Ecuador

A poacher turned gamekeeper in the Serengeti, a former prison-radio DJ in Quito

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Heroes from all walks of life

In tribute to Nelson Mandela, we hear about all kinds of heroes from around the world.

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China, North Korea, Burma

Life in the border city of Dandong on the China-North Korea border

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Thailand and India

The real reasons behind Thailand's protests, and breaking the sex abuse silence in India

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United States and France

Nipple tattoos for cancer patients in the US, and the real reason French women stay slim

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North America

Coping with doormen in New York and the Canadian policeman who smokes medical marijuana.

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Syria and Brazil

A Syrian man whose life illustrates the conflict; and slavery-type labour in Brazil.

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Weekend Edition: Life on the Land

Stories of farmers and herders from Peru, the USA, Moldova, India, Mauritania and Austria

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Somalia and Greece

The lost spectacles that made it back from a Somalian battlefield, and hope for Greece

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Germany and Greenland

New tunnels add to the Christmas cheer in Leipzig; and being stuck for days in Greenland

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Christmas in Paris

The sights, smells, tastes - and joys - of the French capital at Christmas

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Reporting Africa

Gabriel Gatehouse considers who should be telling the continent's stories - and how

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India's Hunger

Why does malnutrition persist in India when there's no lack of food?

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Weekend Edition: Best of 2013

A special edition of some of FOOC's most memorable impressions, anecdotes and arguments

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Europe's Roma Migrations

Nick Thorpe meets Roma families on the margins of Spanish society after leaving Romania

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Latin America: Leaders and legitimacy

Will Grant considers the political challenges ahead for leaders across the continent

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Africa's Flourishing Farms

Susie Emmett finds a bumper crop of ingenuity and innovation on the slopes of Mount Kenya

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Sinai's Strategic Stresses

A special essay: Yolande Knell weighs up the prospects for the Sinai peninsula in 2014

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Sweden and Myanmar

Hunting for wolves in the Scandinavian forest and taxis on the empty streets of Naypyidaw

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Weekend Edition: Looking Ahead

Correspondents consider the stories which might evolve - or play out again - during 2014

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Ukraine and Belize

Worries over safety plans for the Chernobyl site; tracking jaguars through Mayan jungles

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South Sudan and the Dolomites in Northern Italy

Why there's conflict in South Sudan, and the bloody history of an Italian mountain path.

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Sweden and Lebanon

Ice-skating Somalis playing bandy in Sweden, and the politics of Lebanese basketball

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