Bermeja Island is missing. This strategically important island was clearly visible on maps of the Gulf of Mexico until the middle of the 20th century but it’s now gone. BBC Mundo’s David Cuen goes in search.
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World Stories: Mexico’s Missing Island
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DocArchive: Assignment - China Saving’s Habit
Colin Yu is a teacher who lives in Shanghai. He has a job but still struggles to support his parents on his modest income. Colin would like to spend more money and the Chinese government is offering incentives to people like him to go out and buy Chinese goods. They’re hoping that by doing so it will help the country to survive the current global economic downturn. Average savings rates in China stand at around 30% and, as Chris Hogg discovers, most of that money is spent on healthcare. For Assignment he follows the story of Colin’s family as they face difficult decisions over how to spend their money and how to match their savings to their healthcare needs.
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DocArchive: Citizen journalism - democracy or chaos?
Michael Buerk analyses the potential – and the dangers – of citizen journalism. In part one, he talks to bloggers and critics from Sri Lanka, Iran, Burma, and Iraq.
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World Stories: Bombs, Stamps and Throat Singers
American physicist Richard Feynman fell in love with the remote Russian region Tuva through his hobby of stamp collecting. He died just before his visitor’s visa arrived but his daughter Michelle went to the land of throat singers in his honour.
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DocArchive: Assignment - The Opus Dei enigma
It’s widely regarded as one of the most secretive religious organisations in the world. It makes heavy demands on its members - and has been accused of cult-like practices. It’s also an influential movement within Roman Catholicism. Opus Dei, made famous by Dan Brown’s bestselling novel the Da Vinci Code, has many critics - but few have found out what life is like on the inside. The BBC’s religious affairs correspondent, Christopher Landau, has been granted exclusive access to the movement’s extensive headquarters in Rome. He meets both priests and lay people who devote their lives (and their money) to this movement which, though less than 100 years old, exerts powerful influence over both its members and the wider church.
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DocArchive: Assignment - The Bad Samaritan
Until the end of last year Bernard Madoff was a highly respected financial guru and long time advisor to America’s rich and famous. Then on Thursday the twelfth December 2008 he was exposed as a major crook. His ‘Ponzi’ scheme is probably the largest ever pyramid fraud in US history. Amongst his victims there were not only individuals and banks but also charities. For Assignment, James Coomarasamy looks at the damage he has done to two charities in particular - The JEHT Foundation and the Picower Foundation.
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DocArchive: On the brink - part 1
Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly desperate efforts to stave off a global economic slump and depression. He visits Europe and Asia to identify the dangers that lie ahead and investigates how the present bail-out packages devised by leaders in rich countries will hit newly emerging nations.
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DocArchive: Yiddish: A Struggle for Survival - part one
Yiddish was the language of the Jewish Diaspora, the language of a people on the move across Europe. It has suffered a dramatic decline over the last century.
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DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - West Timor from Documentaries
In the run up to elections, Anita Barraud finds out why poverty and starvation are causing major problems for West Timor. Join her as she travels deep into the countryside and discovers malnutrition that rivals parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
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DocArchive: Third Agers - Part Two from Documentaries
What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets people from four continents to find out. In part two, she hears from older people facing financial challenges in Kenya, Brazil, the UK and the US.
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