Countries in Focus

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• Brazil in Focus

  29 Jun 2014

  In the latest of our occasional Countries in Focus series we take a look at Brazil. Brazil's youngest ever published author, Diego Albuquerque, and his Kiwi publisher and translator, Peter Dowling… Audio

• Ideas for 22 September 2013 - Syria in Focus

  22 Sep 2013

  Ideas dedicates this hour to the unfolding tragedy in Syria and attempts to give some context to this complex conflict: Professor William Harris - the author of four books on the Middle East - talks… Audio

• Ideas for 2 June 2013: Myanmar / Burma in Focus

  2 Jun 2013

  Jeremy Rose talks to Phil Robertson a co-author of the Human Rights Watch report All You Can Do Is Pray which implicated Burmese authorities in crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, and Maung… Audio

• Ideas for 21 April 2013: Kurdistan in Focus

  21 Apr 2013

  The Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without a state, with an estimated population of 30 million spread across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. And in all four countries the Kurds have spent… Audio

• Ideas for 29 July 2012: Solomon Islands in Focus

  29 Jul 2012

  Radio New Zealand International's Annell Husband travels to Honiara and speaks to locals about efforts to achieve reconciliation following the ethnic conflicts that first broke out in 1999; and… Audio

• Ideas for 8 July 2012: Singapore in Focus

  8 Jul 2012

  Jeremy Rose talks to Rodney King, the author of The Singapore Miracle - Myth and Reality (Insight Press). Then, Aucklanders Allan Yee and Matthew Ong tell Chris Laidlaw about the country of their… Audio

• Ideas for 6 May 2012: Haiti in Focus

  6 May 2012

  Arguably the first truly free country in the Americas and without doubt the first country on earth to outlaw slavery, Haiti’s history is as inspiring as it is tragic. Laurent Dubois - the author of… Audio

• Ideas for 11 September 2011: Chile in Focus

  11 Sep 2011

  On September 11, 1973, the armed forces of Chile bombed the presidential palace in Santiago and eliminated the ruling Marxist government led by Salvador Allende. Jorge Sandoval recalls the events of… Audio

• Ideas for 11 October 2009 Tonga in Focus: The Economy

  11 Oct 2009

  In the final of this three part series focusing on Tonga, Ideas asks whether the transition to a truly democratic system has implications for the economic future of the country. Audio

• Ideas for 4 October 2009: Tonga in Focus: Land Reform

  4 Oct 2009

  Part two of three on Tonga in Focus: Land Reform. Tonga's land tenure system is unique in the Pacific and probably the world. In 1862 Tonga's first king, George Tupou I, abolished a system of… Audio

• Ideas for 27 September 2009: Tonga in Focus

  27 Sep 2009

  Part one of a three part series on Tonga in Focus. November 2009 will see the release of the final report of Tonga's Constitutional and Electoral Commission. The Commission - established in 2008 -… Audio

• Ideas for 13 September 2009: Papua in Focus: Human Rights

  13 Sep 2009

  Ideas takes a comprehensive look at Indonesia's Melanesian territory of Papua on the 40th anniversary of its annexation. The people of the province, formerly known as West Irian, have all the while… Audio