Asia and the Pacific are the most vibrant regions in the world.  No matter if you’re in Vanuatu, India, China or Burma. There are many stories to be told. PCJ Radio’s Focus Asia Pacific is a weekly news magazine bringing together some of the best news coverage from the region. If you have any comments, questions or story ideas. Or if your station would like to add Focus Asia Pacific to your schedule contact us by email focus@pcjmedia.com.

Focus Asia Pacific - May 17, 2013 (download or listen)

• Taiwan imposes sanctions on Philippines over the killing of a fisherman
• Retailers agree on new standards for factories in Bangladesh
• More Australian money for asylum seekers
• Un-equal courts in Burma
• Short Indian film wins award for brining awarness to violence against women in India

Focus Asia Pacific - May 10, 2013 (download or listen)

• Asylum seekers to be released on bridging visas in Australia
• Hong Kong dockworkers accespt pay rise and end strike
• Ghost nets causing ecological problems
• Major cosmetiics falsely advertising "No Animal Testing"
• Big debate in PNG on Bourgainville
• Psychedelic rock rivival in Cambodia

Focus Asia Pacific - May 3, 2013 (download or listen)

• Pervez Musharaff banned from future elections in Pakistan
• New religios violence in Burma
• Last South Korean workers leave the Kaesong industrial zone
• China sells military equipment to Wa rebels in Burma
• Questions over East Timor land for petroleum development
• Tiger conservation groups target China

Focus Asia Pacific - April 26, 2013 (download or listen)

• Sichaun quake leaves towns desperate
• Frustration for quake survivors and rescuers
• Border quarrel tensions raise between India and China
• Fiji activist has questions about torture video
• Indonesia police chief faces corruption court
• UN plege millions to promote Tonga democracy

Focus Asia Pacific - April 19, 2013 (download or listen)

• China's new defence stategies
• Business as usual in South Korea despite the DPRK rhetoric
• Illicit gun trade in Philippines
• New Zealand legalises same-sex marriage
• Australian Immigration confirms problems at the Manus Island processing center

Focus Asia Pacific - April 12, 2013 (download or listen)

• North Korea abandon industrial zone
• North Korean super spy
• Legacy of Margaret Thatcher in Hong Kong
• Money laundering in Hong Kong

Focus Asia Pacific - April 5, 2013 (download or listen)

• What is North Koreans next move. Chris Green Manger International Affairs from DailyNK News
• China's influence waning on the Korean Pensinsula
• New outcome at international forum on people smuggling in Indonesia

Focus Asia Pacific - March 29, 2013 (download or listen)

• More threats from North Korea towards the US and South Korea
• China's new president on a three-nation tour in Africa
• Foreign maids in Hong Kong won't be able to apply for residency
• Questions to Australia over capsized asylum seeker boat
• China's debt crisis danger

Focus Asia Pacific - March 22, 2013 (download or listen)

• New Chinese Premier talks about Chinese labor camps
• India's parliament debats rape legislation
• Arrest in Pakistan over the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
• 24$ billion deal between Airbus and Indonesia's Lion Air
• Australia to send military attache to Burma
• Australia and India urged to secure Indian Ocean

Focus Asia Pacific - March 15, 2013 (download or listen)

• China to abolish re-education camps
• What will North Korea do next?
• Indonesian media freedoms
• Australia passes tough new laws to deal with foreign fishing incursions
• Nepal's prison children

Focus Asia Pacific - March 8, 2013 (download or listen)

• North Korea threatens to scrap Korean war truce
• China has had enough with North Korea shows new sanctions
• Kiribati embarassed over passport given to North Korean agents
• China's military in spotlight ahead of National People's Congress
• Japan to join the Trans Pacific Partnership
• Xi Jingping facing huge expectations

Focus Asia Pacific - March 1, 2013 (download or listen)

• President of Burma makes first European trip
• China has started jamming English broadcasts from the BBC World Service and Voice of America
• Mixing a photography course and tourism

Focus Asia Pacific - February 22, 2013 (download or listen)

• Report on hacking of Western computers from the Chinese military
• China takes control of Gwadar sea port
• Victims being ask to give back money from the Fukushima nulclear meltdown
• Vietnam looks for foreign investment
• More mental health support in Indonesia
• People smuggler convisted in Indonesia

Focus Asia Pacific - February 15, 2013 (download or listen)

• Special program on the history of working as a foreign correspondent in China

Focus Asia Pacific - February 8, 2013 (download or listen)

• Solomon Islands begins recovery after tsunami
• Australia ready to help Solomon Islands
• Naval tensions between China and Japan
• China bans advertising of luxuary goods
• Beef smugglers target Indonesia
• Intolerance growing in India as intellectuals fight for free speech

Focus Asia Pacific - February 1, 2013 (download or listen)

• Floods hit Jakarta, Indonesia
• Floods in Queensland and New South Wales Australia
• UN inquiry of crimes against humanity in North Korea
• Google map of North Korea with more details on prison camps
• US equipment giant Catapilla has problems in China

Focus Asia Pacific - January 25, 2013 (download or listen)

• Philippines wants to take China to international tribunal over waters claims
• Solomon Island kills over 700 dolphins
• The future of Asian design with Imin Pao

Focus Asia Pacific - January 18, 2013 (download or listen)

• Military standoff at Nike plant in Indonesia
• Smog in Beijing
• Gun control in Philippines
• Doing business in Vietnam

Focus Asia Pacific - January 11, 2013 (download or listen)

• Reform to China's forced labor system
• Chinese journalist strike over censorship row
• Will air strikes in Kachin state in Burma end
• Private security to come to Papua New Guinea, but police are not happy about the idea
• Staple crop production in China and India down

Focus Asia Pacific - January 4 2013 (download or listen)

• Samoan farms affected by Cyclone Evan
• Chinese children forces by government to visit ageing parents
• Anti-government protests in Hong Kong
• Is India safe for foreign women
• Charity and health workers under more attacks in Pakistan
• Sydney's Odyssey House rehabilitaton for addicts

Focus Asia Pacific - December 28, 2012 (download or listen)

• This weeks show is a best of 2012. It features two reports from the past year that were the most commented on. 

Focus Asia Pacific - December 21, 2012 (download or listen)

• Fiji military joins cyclone Evan cleanup
• Confusion with language for cyclone warnings
• Cheap labor in China on the decline
• 2012 deadly year for journalists
• Philippines not a place to do business

Focus Asia Pacific - December 14, 2012 (download or listen)

• North Korea launches rocket
• Death tool from Typhoon Bopha to rise
• Rave Shankar India's national treasure

Focus Asia Pacific - December 7, 2012 (download or listen)

• Impact of Typhoon Bopha on Philippines
• North Korean agents using Kiribati passports
• India considering to use navy to protect South China Sea interests
• Police chief detains Inspector General over corruption
• Papua New Guinea needs to be more transparent

Focus Asia Pacific - November 30, 2012 (download or listen)

• Bank scandal in Afghanistan
• Gay rights advicates in India lobby for acceptance
• Director General of the WTO visits Samoa
• China's People's Daily names North Korean leader Kim Jong-Um sexiest man of 2012 and sources The Onion. We are joined by our Beijing correspondent for more.

Focus Asia Pacific - November 23, 2012 (download or listen)

• Sole surviving gunman of Mumbai attacks executed
• First group of asylum seekers arrive on Manua Island
• HIV infections increasing in parts of Asia
• Solomon Islands could have first university

Focus Asia Pacific - November 16, 2012 (download or listen)

• Our Beijing correspondent Jocelyn Ford joins us for a special report on the new top leadership in China lead by Xi Jinping
• Leaked United Nations report says it fail to protect civilians in Sri Lanka
• With the United Nations departure from East Timor it could leave hundreads of local unemployed

Focus Asia Pacific - Novemvber 9, 2012 (download or listen)

• US/China relations on Obama's second term win
• Backstory from Beijing on the CPC meeting and the new president of China
• Nuclear reactor probe in South Korea
• Sex education in Philippines

Focus Asia Pacific - November 2, 2012 (download or listen)

• United National hands back police duties to East Timor police
• Shake up in Australia's airline industry
• North Korean fears deportation from Australia
• Pacific nations should add value to their fisheries
• Tourist accidents change rules in New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea debates to ban betel nuts

Focus Asia Pacific - October 26, 2012 (download or listen)

• Lack of transparency in Vanuatu elections
• New clashes in Papua, Indonesia
• Exposure - Inside the Olympus Scandal by former CEO Michael Woodford
• China upset at US presidential dedate
• Big weddings all the rage in China

Focus Asia Pacific - October 19, 2012 (download or listen)

• Special coverage of the memorial services head in Indonesia and Australia for the 10th anniversary of the Bali Bombings
• Foxconn admits employing underage workers
• Asian pension schemes inadequate

Focus Asia Pacific - October 13, 2012 (download or listen)

• Nepal dismisses UN war crimes report
• Possible threats to tenth anniversary of Bali bombings
• US warns Chinese telcom companies could be threat to national security
• South Korea to extend missile system
• China to boycott IMF meeting in Japan
• Pakistani child activist shooting causes outcry

Focus Asia Pacific - October 8, 2012 (download or listen)

• The latest on the case of disgraced Chinese communist leader Bo Xilai
• Concers over food price hike in Asia
• Thousands of people displaced in Pakistan from floods

Focus Asia Pacific - September 28, 2012 (download or listen)

• Australian aid worker prevented from leaving Libya
• Japan to suspend whaling
• Ballot boxes in Papua New Guinea burnt
• Global institutions failed on climate change says Nauru's president
• Western medidine should replay Chinese remedies

Focus Asia Pacific - September 22, 2012 (download or listen)

• US Presidental candidates talking tough on China
• Fiji expells UN Labour delagation
• Vietnam thatre production Drought & Rain

Focus Asia Pacific - September 14, 2012 (download or listen)

• Special report from the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, China with PCJ Radio's China correspondent Jocelyn Ford
• Papua New Guinea watches China's economic downturn
• Cambodian journalist killed
• Hong Kong Democtats hold on to veto power

Focus Asia Pacific - September 7, 2012 (download or listen)

• Protest in Hong Kong over Beijing patriotism in schools
• Papua New Guinea bans foreign journalist to Manus Island
• Photos recovered of Khmer Rouge victims
• Burma's removal of peopple from blacklist
• Australian politicians disagree of farm sale to China

Focus Asia Pacific - August 31, 2012 (download or listen)

• Breakdown in ranks of Indian army
• Burma's Ambassador to Australia talks about the trouble in Ruoingyas
• Prime Minister of Singapore addresses anti-foreign sentiment in the city state
• Tension between Indonesia and Malaysia

Focus Asia Pacific - August 24, 2012 (download or listen)

• Vietnam and South Africa crack down on illegal wildlife trade
• "Coalgate" scandal India's opposition capitalising
• Thai General accised of interfering in "RED SHIRT" investigation
• Solomon Islands PM says international helo will continue for a while

Focus Asia Pacific - August 17, 2012 (download or listen)

• Pakistan promises to crack down on Taliban
• Calls in Indonesia to ease working conditions during Ramandan
• Special on Indonesian journalism and self-censorship

Focus Asia Pacific - August 10, 2012 (download or listen)

• New book outlines potential conflict between the US and China
• Calls to release Vietnamese bloggers
• Khmer Rouge graves recently uncovered
• India's textile child workers
• Sex workers in Bangladesh using cattle steroids
• Guiltly verdict for two Thai men for murdering an Australian travel agent

Focus Asia Pacific - August 3, 2012 (download or listen)

• A special looking at HIV/AIDS in China

Focus Asia Pacific - July 27, 2012 (download or listen)

• ASEAN powerless with China's claims in the South China Sea
• Australian Military withdrawing from Solomon Islands
• China becoming overweight
• Vanautu set to become the worlds leading cocoa producer
• Feature on Bollywood star Rajesh Khanna

Focus Asia Pacific - July 20, 2012 (download or listen)

• North Korea's top military advisor steps down
• Japan's Tepco to release tapes from the problemed nuclear plant
• Two billionair brothers charged with bribing government officials in Hong Kong
• Thai journalist could face jail time for words against the King Of Thailand
• New software developed to get around Chinese web censorship.

Focus Asia Pacific - July 13, 2012 (download or listen)

• Singapore eases death penalty laws
• Australia plans to takle more asylum seekers on Christmas Island
• First part of a series on the Asia Tigers. Taiwan
• Catholic Bishop under house arrest in China

Focus Asia Pacific - July 6, 2012 (download or listen)

• 15 years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong
• The future of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
• Suicides in India on the rise
• Asian Development Bank in talks to re-enter Burma
• Philippines asked for US spy planes to monitor the South China Sea

Focus Asia Pacific - June 29, 2012 (download or listen)

• South Korea and Japan sign Military agreement
• New tax in Japan causes stir
• Burma the largest supplier of opium
• China's one child policy debt in China
• Indian health authorities refute tuberculosis claims

Focus Asia Pacific - June 22, 2012 (download or listen)

• National election in Papua New Guinea with record number candidates
• Thai police to help fight domestic violance
• Tension in Indonesian province of Papua
• French architect arrested in Cambodia with connections to Chinese polititcian Bo Xilai
• Australia coffee has growing demand from China

Focus Asia Pacific - June 15, 2012 (download or listen)

• Failed gas deal between China and Russia
• New microblog rules in China
• United Nations wants 198 million in aid for North Korea
• Japan to restart nuclear power plants
• East Timor invests in higher level education

Focus Asia Pacific - June 8, 2012 (download or listen)

• Beijing silences attempts to honour the June 4th 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square
• Hong Kong gathered more than 100,000 people to remember June 4th
• North Korea threatening South Korean media
• Commune elections in Cambodia
• New law in India tackles child sexual abuse
• Film helps bring awareness to children with HIV AIDS in Papula New Guinea 

Focus Asia Pacific - June 1, 2012 (download or listen)

• Peter O'Neil voted at Papua New Guinea's prime minister
• Napal's prime minister calls for new elections
• Thailand and Australia celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations
• China to buy more raw materials from Australia
• Japan launches risk insurance for Pacific island states
• Football match in East Timor to help the youth get off drugs

Focus Asia Pacific - May 25, 2012 - (download or listen)

• North Korea upgrading missile launch site
• Thaksin Shinawatra no longer enjoy undivided support
• New gas pipeline coming to East Timor
• Free trade agreement between Australia and Malaysia
• Difficulte child custody battles for foreigners in Japan

Focus Asia Pacific - May 18, 2012 - (download or listen)

• Burma's forgotten prisoners
• Elections come to Papua New Guinea
• Tensions between China and Japan over World Uighur Congress
• Pakistan newspaper artical called propaganda by Indian Ministry of Defense
• Taiwan study shows home cook food can make you live longer

Focus Asia Pacific - May 10, 2012 - (download or listen)

• South Korea Japan consider military agreement
• History buildings threated in Burma
• Asian kids more likely to have myopic
• Australian cricketer launches music therapy academy
• Beer takes off in Asia

Focus Asia Pacific - May 4, 2012 - (download or listen)

• East Timor could lose millions because of Australia's carbon tax
• Sri Lankan academics want education priority
• Bubbhist monks in Sri Lanka protest against mosque
• Cambodian human rights group dispute military account in the death of Chhut Vuthy
• India hit by corruption in importation of military hardware