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Australia’s Indigenous people are under serious threat.

Aboriginal leaders say a large percentage of their people live in abject poverty in one of the world’s richest nations.

And their diverse cultures and languages are disappearing.

To combat this, the Yolngu tribe of East Arnhem Land holds an annual festival to show case their culture and to teach their young their ancient rituals.

Michael Leung visited this year’s Garma festival and found modern technology preserving one of the world’s oldest cultures.

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Like many countries in the region Bangladesh has witnessed the growth of Islamic militancy in recent years.

Fueled by resentment over the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as anger at the lack of development militant groups have found fertile ground for their ideas, particularly in rural areas where some of Asia’s poorest people live.

On a recent trip to the capital Dhaka, our reporter Katie Hamann explored why militant Islam has growing appeal in Bangladesh and just what the government is doing to fight it.

Folk theater has been an integral part of Kashmiri culture for hundreds of years.

This art form however suffered heavily in recent years due a violent insurgency against India rule.  

But now with the level of violence considerably declining, healthy trends have begun to emerge.

The region’s tourism industry has made major gains in recent months and now the once dying art of folk theatre is also showing signs of revival.

Bismillah Geelani has the story from Srinagar.

The Indian controlled region of Kashmir usually makes headlines because of violent clashes between security forces and local separatist groups.

But the fertile valley is also an internationally renowned tourism destination.

Even though the violent clashes continue the tourism industry in the region is showing signs of recovery.

Around 4,000 tourists across the world are arriving in the valley every day.

As Bismillah Geelani reports, authorities are expecting the numbers to increase.

Still on the subject of Korean’s overseas.

In Japan they make up the largest ethnic minority living in the country.

And despite many having lived there for decades, they express a reluctance to accept Japan as their true home.
 
Most strive to preserve their Korean heritage and connections with friends, family and colleagues in South and North Korea.
 
But as our reporter Jason Strother discovered in the Japanese capital Tokyo, the frequent escalation in tensions in recent years is making it difficult for the Korean community to maintain these traditions and connections.

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Last week on Asia Calling we traveled to the Indonesian city of Manado for the first World Ocean Conference.

Countries from around the world discussed ways of protecting the regions Coral Triangle, a vital reef and ocean ecosystem wedged between Bali in Indonesia, the northern tip of the Philippines and across to the Solomon Islands.

Arresting the decline of reef ecosystems requires both global and local responses.
 
For Asia Calling Solenn Honorine visited a reef community near Manado to learn more about how local communities, those that depend most on the survival of these wildernesses, are working to protect their backyards.

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This week, around 70 countries gathered in the Indonesian city of Manado in order to emphasize the importance of the world’s oceans in combating climate change.

The World Ocean Conference is the first of its kind; even though the seas, that cover 70 percent of the planet, play a major role in the Earth’s climate.

As Solenn Honorine reports from Manado environmentalist attending say the coral seas are in a worse shape than the earth’s forests.

Last week, in the second part of our Rohingya series, the Ahmed family and a larger group of refugees arrived in Sweden where they have been granted asylum.

Today in our third and final installment, Ric Wasserman visits them in Northern Sweden, three months after their arrival to find out how they are coping with a new climate and culture and whether the little town of Sorsele is beginning to feel like home.