Download Pakistan just ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this year.

According to the government, there were 6,000 disabled people in Pakistan in 2009, but the actual figure is believed to be much higher.

With limited job prospects, disabled people in Pakistan are at a high risk of being trafficked or forced into begging syndicates.

Yasser Khan meets a disabled tailor in Rawalpindi who is determined to have a different fate.

Download Asia is booming and rapid economic and social changes are taking place across the region particularly in countries like China and South Korea.

Three new Asian films deal with the sense of loss many people are feeling as a new and often dehumanised civilization is built changing old ways of living.

Ric Wasserman went to see the films and met with the directors at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

Download Indonesia is booming: the economy grew at its fastest annual rate for six years in 2010 and is showing no signs of slowing down.

But development is dramatically unevenly.

Almost 40 percent of the people in Indonesia don’t have access to electricity. Not even a generator.

But one woman Tri Mumpuni is trying to change that.

With her organization called Ibeka, she is planning to bring clean renewable energy to 90 million Indonesians who are currently in the dark.

Esther de Jong went to visit one such energy project on the Island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.

Download Bones found in the Chinese region of Ningxia indicate that modern humans were in China as long as 30,000 years ago.

It’s the countries second most important Paleolithic sites after Peking Man near Beijing.

Clarence Chua is in Ningxia to trace some of China’s earliest inhabitants.