Download For Muslims ‘fasting’ during the holy month Ramadan is a religious obligation.

But shopping spreads for the Eid celebration at the end of the holy month are a purely manmade tradition.

It’s become expected in most Muslim countries around the world that on the holy Eid day you need to wear your best and ideally new clothes.

As Yasser Ali Khan in Islamabad finds out rich women take the selection of this outfit very seriously.

Download The Cambodian Independent Teachers association is calling on the government to punish corrupt exam supervisors who have been accused of selling copies of the national exam to students.

Cases of leaked national examination papers have been reported in 15 provinces including the capital.

As Borin Noun in Phnom Pehn reports students say corruption is ingrained in the education system.

Download South Korean civic groups are delivering hundreds of tons of flour to North Korea.

For the past year, most forms of cross border humanitarian aid had been banned, since Seoul blamed the north for sinking its navy ship in March 2010.

But the South Korean government still isn’t easing its own stance on providing relief, even as the European Union and other international groups prepare to send aid.

And some observers question if North Korea really is as hungry as it says it is.

Reporter Jason Strother was on hand to watch some of the aid depart for the north from a park just seven kilometers south of the Korean demilitarized zone.

Download A slum area around an abandoned railway line on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh is home to around four thousand poor families.

There is high drug and alcohol abuse here.

But as Sorn Sarath reports there is also a successful free English school here.

Download Increasing numbers of Chinese immigrants having been coming to Italy since the 1990s.

It’s brought with it challenges and in recent years with Italy’s bitter economic downturn populistic politicians have accused the Chinese of stealing jobs and opportunities.

Rebecca Valli in Prato finds out if this is true.

Indian singer Lakhbeer Singh or popularly known as Lakha, is a well known singer of Jaagran - a genre of Hindu religious music that is sung to please God. Thousands of people flocked to an all night sing-along concert, that was recently held in Jaipur.

For more information about the band listen to our interview with the band.

Hear one of their tracks here.

Generation Wave is a group of hip-hop-loving, young Burmese, dedicated to overthrowing the military government.

They tried boycotting the election and are demanding a social revolution.

In this next song they rap "Don't Give Up! Be brave say what is not right!"

 

For more information about the band listen to our interview with the band.

Hear one of their tracks here.

Download During the Taliban regime in Afghanistan playing music or listening to it was considered religious taboo.

But now the country has a National Institute of Music which has been operating for one year.

At the school women and men learn western and eastern music.

Our correspondent Malyar Sadeq Azad spent a day there.