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Beijing: Rapid Growth Wreaks Havoc on Water Supply

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Half of China's population is chronically short of water, a problem that's exacerbated in the country's largest city. Four out of the five rivers feeding Beijing's main reservoir are badly polluted. State-run CCTV News reports on the measures that the Chinese government is taking to clean up Beijing's water. (WATCH)


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'Water is China's Biggest Environmental Problem'

Thirty-five percent of the water in China is so polluted that you can't touch it. More than a dozen provinces in northern China are experiencing chronic water shortages. LinkAsia speaks with Jennifer Turner of the Woodrow Wilson Center about northern China's dire water situation. (WATCH)

 

South Korea: Special Forces Combat Water Pollution

Divers from the ROK Special Forces have an unusual mission: clean the riverbed of the Han, Seoul's main waterway. The government has been trying to end pollution in this river for 30 years. A reporter from South Korea's MBC joined the divers, and pulled a "trash mountain" from the river. (WATCH)

 

India's Elders Struggle with Broken Pension System

Only 20 percent of India's rapidly growing senior citizen population receives a government pension. Senior citizens living in poverty have to fight to get the four dollars a month they were promised. LinkAsia partner Video Volunteers presents two reports from their "India Unheard" series, then we speak with Help Age India's Manjira Khurana about the fight for elderly people's rights. (WATCH)


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Documentary Forces Indonesia to Confront Genocide

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In 1965, mobs took to Indonesia's streets to "exterminate" anyone suspected of having communist sympathies, along with the ethnic Chinese minority. More than 500,000 people were killed. LinkAsia speaks with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer, who had the perpetrators of this genocide recreate their crimes in his documentary "The Act of Killing." (WATCH)


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