Asia Insight
Season 1, Episode 18: The Greater Mekong Subregion: China Creates Massive Trade Center
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In the Greater Mekong Subregion, the bordering countries of China, Thailand, Laos Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar are working hard to stimulate and increase trade. Asia Insight will devote three episodes to measures implemented by nations as they battle for economic control. The first episode focuses on China and its efforts to build infrastructure, develop a massive trade center, and train entrepreneurs. We also highlight the growing trade between China and Myanmar and the lives of local workers endeavoring to realize their hopes and aspirations.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Migrants Gain Upper Hand
Episode 2
Indonesia's First National Car
Episode 3
Diversifying Shanghai
Episode 4
Vietnam's Court Music Revival
Episode 5
Writers Fight Publishing Ban in HK
Episode 6
Mongolia's Forgotten Slum Dwellers
Episode 7
The "80's Writers" in China
Episode 8
Hydropower for Indonesian Villagers
Episode 9
Energy-Hungry Nepal
Episode 10
China's Job-Hunting Inn
Episode 11
The Year of the Dragon Baby Boom
Episode 12
The Dancing Prisoners
Episode 13
Singing Out for Change in China
Episode 14
The Golden Triangle: Fighting for Change
Episode 15
South Korea's Budding Entrepreneurs
Episode 16
China's Good Deeds Banks
Episode 17
Born This Way in Thailand
Episode 18
The Greater Mekong Subregion: China Creates Massive Trade Center
Episode 19
The Greater Mekong Subregion: The Rising Potential of Laos
Episode 20
The Greater Mekong Subregion: A New Era for Cambodia
Episode 21
Kid Golfers Taking on the World, South Korea
Episode 22
China's Traveling Handymen
Episode 23
From Slum Dwellers to Homeowners
Episode 24
East Timor's Mobile Health Clinics
Episode 25
The New Heroes of the Philippines
Episode 26
Vietnam's Hope Serving Restaurants
Episode 27
Thailand's Little Myanmar
Episode 28
Strike Action in Cambodia
Episode 29
Singapore Playing Cupid