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Hip hop producer Onra: ‘Difference is not very well accepted in France’

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:51:38 -0000

Arnaud Bernard, aka Onra, is famed for sampling Chinese beats in his records, enabling him to tour the world and even reach Olympic heights in Beijing. In his adopted home of Paris, we speak about actually liking your own music, being half-Vietnamese and handling ‘brands of bullshit’ from different countries

Economy lesson from young Europeans: move to China and start saving now

('Agata Jaskot',) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:45:00 -0000

EU officials are brainstorming the programme of Denmark's six-month presidency of the EU, as young, ambitious Europeans give us their financial lessons from the 'crisis year' 2011

India: country for European yogi?

('Buzz',) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:02:37 -0000

Five European tourists and expatriates in Bangalore, the new 'Silicon Valley' of India, and Mysore in Karnataka, yoga capital of the south, tell us why they have come to India and if reality has lived up to their expectations

Grzegorz Szczygieł, Panjabi MC and an Opel Kadett

('Paulina Dominik',) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:15:00 -0000

The director garnered acclaim from a travel festival in Wroclaw in 2008 for a documentary which took him from being a Polish businessman in Wroclaw to a traveller in Pakistan and Iran, parts of which he covered with the famed postwar car

Bike traffic: return of the scorchers

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Environmentally conscious cyclists regularly battle errant cars in European cities

Olympic games: Europe up in arms over Tibet

('Susannah Readett-Bayley',) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

A huge victory for some, enormous disappointment for others. For the first ever time, the Olympic torch has been extinguished under mass pressure, as Europe makes itself heard

Mujahideen Khan: 'we do not know who the Taliban is right now'

('Kadri Kukk',) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Afghanistan remains a huge challenge for NATO. Whilst officials met in the Bucharest's Parliament Palace from 2-4 April, a group of Estonian journalists cast an eye back with a mujahideen in the Afghan mountains

Eyewitness: Tibet out of control

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

As the tension between the Tibetan monks versus Chinese control escalates, we hear a 25-year-old Swiss tourist's version of events after a week in the capital, Lhasa

Young prostitutes surviving in Bangkok

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0000

The lively streets of the capital conceal a sordid reality. In this meat market, they do their best to survive and dream of Europe

Plastic surgery: turn to the Thai scalpel

('Kate Martin',) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:43:00 -0000

Bangkok and its shiny new clinics have become the new capital for medical tourism, particularly for plastic surgery - and sex changes

December: pure culture seeker

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0000

Berlin sparks and pixels, free Splash electro in Paris, European student cinema festival in Manchester and eat yourself to death in Lodz

Nuclear energy: new wave in Europe

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0000

Brussels goes far east, caps the CAP and ideologises nuclear energy in the first EU forum - take a bite of the latest news from Brussels

Russian tears for 'Hausfrau' Eva Herman

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0000

On 9 September the controversial German TV personality was sacked after a comment praising Nazi family policy. Moscow is astonished

The truth about cats and dogs

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:00:00 -0000

The EU is poised to enforce its ban on cat and dog fur imports from China on 19 June. Parliament voted to outlaw its import, export and sale in April

David Calleo: 'free trade is the last great religion of the West'

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0000

On the eve of the global Davos Economic Forum, North American intellectual David Calleo describes his vision of the role Europe plays in globalisation

Marjane Satrapi: 'the Iraq war was about nothing but oil'

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0000

We spoke to the Iranian graphic novelist, 37, in January, after she shot to fame with her black-and-white comic book ‘Persepolis’. It's currently hitting movie screens in its animated French version

Set fire to your tongue - a la Korean!

('cafebabel.com',) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:00:00 -0000

North Korea is a hermitic country. The secrets of its gastronomy are hidden behind a huge variety of ingredients and spicy flavours

Europe meets Asia: reviving the Silk Road

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:00:00 -0000

As trade flourishes between the EU and Asia and regional integration accelerates, the Asian highway opens new routes to the East

'No concrete measures can be expected from the meeting'

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:00:00 -0000

Dr. Willem van der Geest, President of the European Institute for Asian Studies in Brussels, one of the most authoritative voices in the field, gives us the keys to understanding the ASEM meeting and the new season of EU-China Relations

The leopard prowls the Silk Road

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:07:00 -0000

Kazakhstan holds a key position on the Asian highway network which criss-crosses 32 Asian states. At the used car market “Barys”, traders discuss the merging of Europe and Asia

ASEAN and the EU: singing from different hymnals

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:00:00 -0000

As regional integration accelerates in Asia, ASEAN might one day resemble the former EEC. I talked to Ludo Cuyvers, professor of economics at the University of Antwerp, who says such comparisons are premature.