Breathless: the human cost of flaring
How the health of millions across the Gulf region is being put at risk by toxic gas flares.
A 麻豆社 Arabic investigation has revealed that toxic pollutants released during gas flaring are endangering millions more people than previously feared. Flaring - the burning of waste gas during oil drilling - is taking place across the Gulf, including by COP28 hosts, the United Arab Emirates. Reporter Sarah Ibraham tells us what the documentary, Breathless, reveals about how the pollution can spread hundreds of kilometres, affecting air quality across the entire region.
Hong Kong city walks
Sampson Wong is the author of two books about walks around Hong Kong, and has been promoting the benefits of walking and watching since Covid. Meiqing Guan from 麻豆社 Chinese joined him to find out more.
Covering the Uttarakhand tunnel rescue
It took 17 days to free the 41 workers trapped in a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel in northern India. 麻豆社 Hindi鈥檚 Anant Zanane was reporting from the scene, and broke the story live on air.
The matriarchal herders of Shimshal
For the 麻豆社's 100 Women season, 麻豆社 Urdu's Farhat Javed trekked to Pakistan鈥檚 Shimshal Valley with the Wakhi shepherdesses, a female-led community who have used the wealth from raising livestock at extreme altitudes to build roads, and educate their children.
Serbia鈥檚 multi-millionaire barber 鈥� myth or reality?
This year marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nikola Bizumi膰, the Serbian barber reputed to have moved to London, changed his name to John Smith, and made piles of money from his invention: the hair clipper. 麻豆社 Serbian's Nemanja Mitrovi膰 has been digging into his mysterious story, particularly what happened to his missing millions.
(Photo: Gas flaring in the Rumaila oil field in Southern Iraq. Credit: 麻豆社)
