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1Insight looks at whether Taiwan's new relationship with China will bring opportunity, or hand more control to Beijing. For the last three years, Taiwan's response to tensions with China has been mainly conciliatory. Economic and cultural links with the Chinese mainland have flourished for the very first time, and the idea of formal independence has become more taboo than ever. But the BBC's Chris Hogg explores whether the warming relations between China, and what it regards as a renegade province, will bring opportunity to Taiwan or hand more control to Beijing, as a renegade type of reunification.
1Fire in Babylon is the story of the glory days of West Indian cricket - back in the 1970s and '80s when the team, lead by the inspirational captain Clive Lloyd, blitzed all opposition. Set against the backdrop of apartheid in South Africa and unrest at home, it's the story of how the West Indies triumphed over the colonial masters. And its got some great music.
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1Mediawatch looks at the naming and shaming of the man the media dubbed �the Jetstar urinator�, for a minor mid-air mishap. Michael Aitkin (Son of Ruth Aitkin, coach of the Silver Ferns) was the young man but the story angle moved to his mother.
2How one politician got the blame for the lack of a crackdown on synthetic cannabis, particularly Kronic,
3The man behind the alternative TV channel Stratos tells us it can fill the void of public service television, but how?
4More on interviews gathered when the subject specifically asks for the camera to be turned off, with regard to a TV3 Campbell Live story on a couple (the Mudgeways) taking deposits on a holiday house in Fiji when they didn't own it. How ethical or fair is this?
5And are those clever comedians on TV as off-the-cuff as they appear to be? Seven Days on TV3 is pre-scripted, and not off the cuff as it appears to be.
1The cement industry is a big, dirty business, responsible for five percent of the world�s carbon emissions � and there�s a lot of work being done for a cleaner product. Jim O�Brien, the President of UEPG (Union Europ�enne des Producteurs de Granulats), the European Aggregates Association, is in New Zealand and he joins Chris to talk about cement companies amassing billions of dollars of carbon credits, and the race for carbon-neutral cement
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3New Zealander Tony Woods works alongside local people to build small-scale electricity projects in remote areas around Afghanistan. It can be a risky business but, as Tony tells Chris, the pay-off is worth it. His wind and solar power schemes improve living standards, bring job opportunities and some stability to towns and villages where the people are sick of conflict and want a better life.
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1It�s 25 years since homosexuality became legal in New Zealand. Ideas talks to: former Wellington Central MP Fran Wilde, whose private members� Homosexual Law Reform Bill finally changed the law in this country; Wellington counsellor and gay activist Bill Logan on the campaign for homosexual law reform and his life as an out gay man; and Phylesha Brown-Acton of the New Zealand AIDS Foundation about her work around the Pacific where homosexuality remains illegal in many countries