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Speaker 1: Trying to understand Asia is like piecing together a giant

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Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle. Forty countries and more than two thousand languages.

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Speaker 2: So Asia is home to some of the fastest growing

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Speaker 2: economies and it can be incredibly hard to cover this

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Speaker 2: part of the world.

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Speaker 1: And the Hong Kong police are the same.

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Speaker 2: It is gathering of people is in violation of the law.

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Speaker 1: Security coming upon us almost immediately.

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Speaker 3: Indjak it is one of the most dangerous countries in

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Speaker 3: the world's in terms of freedom of the press.

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Speaker 1: So we're starting The Big Take Asia, a weekly news

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Speaker 1: podcast from.

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg In Japan. They want inflation, they want prices to

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Speaker 2: go up.

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Speaker 4: Kim Jong un took Rush's defense minister and showed him

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Speaker 4: all of his latest weaponry.

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Speaker 1: I'm Wanha. I've been covering Asian news for more than

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Speaker 1: a decade at Bloomberg. We'll take you inside some of

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Speaker 1: the world's biggest and most powerful economies and the markets,

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Speaker 1: tycoons and businesses that drive this ever shifting region. We'll

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Speaker 1: try to answer the tough questions and show how what

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Speaker 1: happens here in Asia impacts the world.

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Speaker 5: The question is, has Microsoft gone too far? If the

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Speaker 5: gnomy is doing well, Why does eight hundred million people

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Speaker 5: need free food.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Big tich Asia every Wednesday, wherever you get

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