Asia Pacific CurrentsThe Australian government is one of the leaders in anti-asylum seekers and refugee policies. The latest battle is over a Tamil family detained in an offshore prison camp on Christmas Island.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsLabor Notes is a U.S.-based labour organization. In August it held a regional conference in Taiwan bringing together workers from around the region.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThe recent crackdown in Kashmir will have far-reaching consequences and are more related to India's internal politics than its rivalry with Pakistan.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThe West Papuan region of Indonesia has been embroiled in conflict ever since the sham Act of Free Choice in 1969. APC talks to West Papuan independence activist O'Neil Waromi.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsWhile Thailand is officially not a military dictatorship anymore, activists like Somyot Pruksakasemsuk continue to fight against repression. Asia Pacific Currents talks to him on today's show.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsAn interview with Denis Doherty of the Hiroshima Day Committee in Sydney Australia about the relevance of the bombing in 2019.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThis year has seen an upsurge of strikes, demonstrations and protests by South Korean workers. The issues relate to pay and working conditions.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsKamillia el-Eriani, a Melbourne-based professor of sociology and politics, talks to Jiselle Hanna about the dynamics and deep roots of the conflict in Yemen.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThe recent threats by the U.S. against Iran have to be seen in the context of the changes brought about by the Arab Spring uprisings.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThe far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headed by Narendra Modi won the recent general elections in India. This will have serious ramifications for workers in the coming years.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThe question of the relationship between Hong Kong and the Chinese government is not clear and a proposed extradition bill saw the biggest demonstration ever in Hong Kong.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsIndonesia is one of the world's biggest democracies and elections are closely watched especially now when many neighbouring countries are becoming more autocratic.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsEven though the first half of President Duterte's administration has been marked by authoritarian excesses, his allies were able to win in the recent elections.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsIt has been 71 years since the Palestinians were forced off their land. Their struggle continues in many different forms.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsMore and more, workers have to join to fight global companies. Dockworkers around the Asia Pacific region are fighting against Hutchinson ports together.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThe upcoming general elections in India are allowing workers to put forward their own demands against the far right BJP government of President Modi.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThe current Thai military government has engineered the upcoming national elections so that it will retain power even with a national vote.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsAPC was at the 2019 IWD march in Melbourne, Australia and brings you some speeches from Aboriginal women and the issues that they are facing.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsThe copper smelter complex in the southern Tamil Nadu town of Tuticorin has been the focus of large protests. One of its main opponents, Mugilan, has now been disappeared.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsMaria Ressa, CEO of media organization Rappler, talks about why the Philippines is one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsOutsourcing is a problem for workers all around the world. A recent workplace death has sparked a massive protest movement in South Korea.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsSamsung Electronics has resisted any calls to improve its workplaces but labour activists have recently won important gains.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsSheung So of the Hong Kong based NGO Labour Education and Service Network talks about control of workers by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Asia Pacific CurrentsA labour activist at the Istanbul airport speaks out about the conditions facing workers and the recent events that saw hundreds of workers detained by the police.
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