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Unravelling My Father's Mystery Life

An Indian family enigma unravelled; crossing the Darien Gap; Saudi fashion week; home to Uzbekistan; Dhaka's mischievous mosquitoes; South Korean drop-outs. With David Amanor.

40 years ago Manoshi Barua inherited a notebook with an old newspaper clipping inside. It was in Chinese, and showed a photo of her father as a young Indian doctor working in China. So what did it say? When chance brought Manoshi together on the fifth floor with 91热爆 China's Yuwen Wu, she had the opportunity to crack the mystery.

Crossing the Darien Gap
The Darien Gap is a huge jungle area along the Panama-Colombia border, notorious for armed gangs, smugglers, and impenetrable undergrowth. 91热爆 Mundo's Alejandro Millan had a childhood dream to go there, but his dream became a nightmare.

Saudi Fashion Week
This week Saudi Arabia hosted its first Arab Fashion Week, with 91热爆 Arabic's Hanan Razek catwalk-side.

Return to Uzbekistan
91热爆 Uzbek's Ibrat Safo has just visited Uzbekistan after an absence of 14 years. Family feasts, high-brow taxi drivers, selfies with fans and fresh spring air: impressions from an overdue homecoming.

Living with mosquitoes
When mosquitoes are sitting happily on smoking mosquito coils you know you have a problem. 91热爆 Bangla's Rocky Shahnewaj lives in the capital Dhaka and knows all about these disease-spreading, high-pitched nuisances.

Dropping out in South Korea
South Korean schoolchildren spend upwards of 12 hours a day in education, often not returning home until midnight. Competition is intense, and drop-outs face stigma and discrimination. William Lee of 91热爆 Korean has been asking drop-outs about life outside the system.

Image: Manoshi Barua holding a newspaper cutting
Credit: 91热爆

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50 minutes

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Fri 13 Apr 2018 17:06GMT

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  • Fri 13 Apr 2018 11:06GMT
  • Fri 13 Apr 2018 15:06GMT
  • Fri 13 Apr 2018 17:06GMT