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I just danced the merengue with a hard-nosed communist.
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I am sitting on a bench outside Haldwani bus station, a rural chicken stop in the far north of India.
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In Nangi, Nepal, graduating from grade 5 is a serious matter.
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At last count, Aki Ra has defused over 20,000 landmines—the same number he estimates he laid as a child.
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In a city where street kids don't often make it to school, a bus brings learning to their doorsteps.
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A fair-trade coffee cooperative in Nicaragua uses tourism to put much-needed dollars to work in their communities.
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Intrigued by the smoking tin cans peddled on the streets of Kabul, Brent Lewin decides to get to the bottom of it.
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Canadian adventurer Graydon Hazenberg follows the trail of China's most revered traveller along the Silk Road.
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In the most remote region of Mongolia, semi-nomadic herdsmen train golden eagles to help them hunt. Filmmaker Tony Girardin travels 1600 kilometres over the desert to meet one.
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Tibetans fear that their culture will get derailed as the new train from China begins service to their region.
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Marc-André Roy explores the value of voodoo in Benin.
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Volunteer teacher Cheryl Dunkerton finds that Mongolian students juggle more than just exams in order to make it through school.
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