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Weekly documentary and current affairs programme covering the Asia-Pacific region on @AJEnglish .

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He was a decorated Thai police officer who took down a vast human trafficking syndicate led by a top military commander. 6 years later heโ€™s finally ready to talk about the price he paid for doing his job. 101 East presents 'Thailand's Fearless Cop':
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Farmers, lawyers, and human rights activists on Negros Island in the Philippines fear for their lives. They claim theyโ€™re being targeted by state-sanctioned death squads. On @AJ101East :
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First came the coup, now the crackdown. @AJ101East reports from the bloodstained streets of Myanmar. Watch: #militarycoupinMyanmar #Myanmarprotests #civildisobediencemovement #WhatIsHappeninginMyanmar
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. @AJ101East reporter @jolleyma was deported from #Malaysia following her investigation to the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu. She confronts former Prime Minister Najib Razak: #AJNajibSpeaks
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Jakarta's school brawls leave a trail of blood and bodies in their wake:
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Former Thai police Major General describes what it was like when a top military commander suspected of involvement in a human trafficking network, turned himself in to the the Royal Thai Police. #เธ„เน‰เธฒเธกเธ™เธธเธฉเธขเนŒ What happened next? Watch the full film here:
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Itโ€™s been branded the worldโ€™s biggest heist. @AJ101East follows the trail of the $4.5 billion allegedly stolen from Malaysiaโ€™s sovereign wealth fund #1MDB :
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Itโ€™s been called the biggest heist in the world - and brought down a government. @AJ101East speaks with former Prime Minister Najib Razak about the #1MDB scandal and the missing money: #AJNajibSpeaks
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โ€œBoy, 3kg, $2000.โ€ A newborn is for sale online. We expose Malaysiaโ€™s underground baby trade. Full film:
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12-year-old Xuan spends around 15 hours a day studying, a schedule his parents say is โ€˜quite normal for a Singapore kidโ€™. Follow a day in his life on @AJ101East :
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A convicted murderer. Now a free man. In a world exclusive on 101 East, Sirul Azhar Umar speaks out for the first time. What he reveals will shock you. Watch now on YouTube:
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โ€œItโ€™s lonely, isolated, and even desolate at times.โ€ More than 6 years after he fled Thailand in fear for his life, a courageous cop who took down some of the countryโ€™s most powerful men dreams of one day returning to his country. Watch the full film:
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Five million Indian children have genius level IQs but few are ever discovered... until now:
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โ€œWe are letting the world know whatโ€™s happening here.โ€ In this special report, Rohingya citizen journalists give 101 East exclusive access to more than two yearsโ€™ worth of footage revealing the grim realities of their lives in an apartheid state. Watch:
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7 years
Five million Indian children have genius level IQs but few are ever discoveredโ€ฆ until now. Watch:
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We went undercover to 6 vape shops in Kuala Lumpur. None of them asked our young buyer for ID before selling highly addictive nicotine-based vape products, despite 4 of them displaying 18+ signs. Find out more about the rise of vaping in Southeast Asia:
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They call him the Jackie Chan of #Bollywood . @AkshayKumar sits down with @AJ101East to talk all things #stunts :
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Lee Geum-Sum lost her son 68 years ago when she fled North Korea. After receiving a letter saying he is still alive, she is being reunited with him for the first time. @AJ101East follows her journey to meet her long-lost son:
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Chinaโ€™s Social Credit System rewards people for โ€˜goodโ€™ behaviour and punishes what it sees as โ€˜badโ€™. @AJ101East reveals what could be the worldโ€™s first #digital dictatorship:
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2 years
JUST IN: Malaysia's former PM #NajibRazak is to serve a 12-year jail sentence after top court quashes appeal related to #1MDB scandal. Watch our 2018 interview where Najib walked out after being asked to address allegations about the case:
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During Franceโ€™s nuclear testing in the Pacific, French scientists assured islanders they faced no substantial health risks. New evidence has revealed a devastating human toll. 101 East investgiates:
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@JusticeMyanmar โ€œThey tied our hands and put us in the car...so we just say, OK, we are going to die.โ€ @AJ101East uses witness testimony and satellite images to reconstruct a secret interrogation centre in Myanmar.
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Vibol Kong is Cambodiaโ€™s head of taxation. His official salary is $1000 a month, but he appears to own millions of dollars of Australian real estate. @AJ101East investigates:
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Britainโ€™s Indian Empire was divided 70 years ago, leading to the bloodiest migration in history. Retrace Partition:
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101 East investigates how love is being weaponised for political gain in India.
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UPDATE: Afzal Kohistani, the man who campaigned to expose one of Pakistan's most notorious 'honour killing' cases, has been shot dead. 101 East investigated the country's deadly practice:
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Najib Razak. Rosmah Mansor. And the alleged secret deals with a Malaysian businessman:
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"After my leg was amputated, she left." The story of a single father who was injured in battle with ISIL:
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@nslwin Since the coup, an army compound in Myanmar has been turned into a secret interrogation centre. Using witness testimony and satellite images, @AJ101East and @ForensicArchi reconstruct this facility. Watch the full story:
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New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern was lauded for her leadership following the Christchurch massacre. But some believe the country needs to take more responsibility for a toxic culture of racism:
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Malaysiaโ€™s former Prime Minister #Najib Razak has had a tumultuous political career plagued with scandal and allegations of corruption. Watch the full story in an exclusive interview on @AJ101East coming soon. #AJNajibSpeaks
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7 years
Can $840K compensate for 20 years in jail for a crime you didnโ€™t commit? Watch a mother take on Japanโ€™s justice system: aje/io/JapanJustice
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Since the coup, an army compound in Myanmar has been turned into a secret interrogation centre with the capacity to hold hundreds. Using witness testimony and satellite images, @AJ101East and @ForensicArchi reconstruct this facility. Watch the full story:
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Is spying on your family the ultimate betrayal? Yusuf Amat is a Uighur, who says he was coerced to inform on his community for the Chinese government. His story on @AJ101East :
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In Thailand, Muay Thai is big business where every fight holds a prize. And for many children like Tangkwa, itโ€™s a pathway out of poverty. Watch her story:
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Good news! @AJ101East has been nominated for the @walkleys Arts Journalism Prize for our coverage of art censorship in Thailand. Meet the artists fighting for democracy:
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In Thailand, Muay Thai is big business where every fight holds a prize. And for many children like Tangkwa, itโ€™s a pathway out of poverty. Watch her story:
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Myanmar is the worldโ€™s biggest producer of meth. @AJ101East heads to the countryโ€™s borderlands to investigate what authorities are doing to try and stop the flow of drugs:
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Despite an American college degree, English language and computer skills, Shuhei Onishi still struggles to find work in Japan. @AJ101East takes a look at Japanโ€™s treatment of people with disabilities:
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More than 40 enslaved Vietnamese workers escaped from a compound in Cambodia last week. 101 East met Burmese men who were imprisoned in the same building, where they were forced to scam and witnessed torture. Watch:
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South Korea has the longest working hours in the developed world. What exactly does that mean for the countryโ€™s delivery drivers? In some cases, itโ€™s โ€˜Kwarosaโ€™ โ€” death from overwork. 101 East investigates:
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Almost 900 million people in India live in rural areas where medical care is out of reach. These doctors are trying to change that:
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@YangheeLeeSKKU โ€œThey threatened to shoot and kill a toddler if my father didnโ€™t come out.โ€ Following the military takeover, authorities in Myanmar are targeting families of dissidents in hiding. @AJ101East investigates: #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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The UN estimates 1 million #Uighurs are being forcibly held in detention in Chinaโ€™s Xinjiang province. The government says they are voluntary โ€˜vocational training centresโ€™. @AJ101Est hears accounts from those who have been inside:
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UPDATE: The Indonesian woman accused of killing Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has been freed after Malaysian prosecutors dropped all charges against her. @AJ101East investigated the murder case in 2017:
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Some are unwanted and abandoned, others lost and looking for home. We meet the children on Pakistanโ€™s streets, struggling to survive:
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Inmates policing other inmates? Thatโ€™s one way guards at Manila City Jail keep the peace among more than 6,000 prisoners, in a prison built for only 1,100:
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For Uighur people in China, social rankings mean more than just a score. @AJ101East bears witness to the discrimination faced by those on the wrong side of the Chinese governmentโ€™s new surveillance scheme:
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#COP26 | Cambodiaโ€™s forests are being plundered, day by day, tree by tree. 101 East investigates the wholesale destruction of some of the most precious forests left on the Indochina peninsula:
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@walone4 Wai Hninโ€™s father was one of the first to be taken away during the military coup in Myanmar. For 2 months, his family didnโ€™t know where he was - until they learnt he was in a notorious prison. Watch the full story:
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โ€œMy father always told me, โ€˜Be like Usain Boltโ€™.โ€ Ravikiran dreams of representing India in the Olympics. But to achieve his dream, he must leave his family and devote his life to training. This is the story of India's tribal athletes:
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UPDATE: The governor of China's Xinjiang province has suggested that 're-education centres' holding up to a million Uighur Muslims may eventually be phased out. @AJ101East hears accounts from those who have been inside:
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When the Taliban retook Afghanistan, foreigners and investors left. But one group is doing the opposite. 101 East meets the Chinese nationals setting up shop in Afghanistan:
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Journalist @ali_fowle has been reporting on Myanmar for almost 10 years. Follow her as she reflects on the #militarycoupinMyanmar and what it means to leave the country she has called home @AJ101East . Watch
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โ€œI know now I am not from another country. I am from here.โ€ For tribal athletes from south India, the struggle for recognition and success doesnโ€™t simply end at the finish line. 101 East tells the story of some of Indiaโ€™s most underprivileged athletes:
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Most Hindu temples in India forbid menstruating women from entering. For decades, Sabarimala banned women aged 10 to 50 altogether. @AJ101East finds out why:
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They call it โ€˜crazy medicineโ€™ - a little red pill known locally as Yaba - a mix of methamphetamines and caffeine. And itโ€™s taking over Asia. @AJ101East follows the trail of Asiaโ€™s meth boom:
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Thailandโ€™s military has postponed the countryโ€™s elections 5 times. As the nation finally heads to the polls, @AJ101East meets the artists fighting for democracy:
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What makes Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, one of the most dangerous cities in the world? 101 East investigates:
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In Nepal, a remarkable story is unfolding. One of Asiaโ€™s poorest countries has brought rhinos and tigers back from the brink of extinction. But at what cost? 101 East investigates:
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โ€œIn our tradition, men exist and women serve.โ€ For generations, many South Korean women were denied an education. Now, theyโ€™re getting the chance to study for the first time:
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@PVamplify โ€œThey threatened to shoot and kill a toddler if my father didnโ€™t come out.โ€ Following the military takeover, authorities in Myanmar are targeting families of dissidents in hiding. @AJ101East investigates: #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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โ€œAt night when Iโ€™m alone, I cry by myself as I miss my baby sister.โ€ A brother grieves after his 17-year-old sister died after falling from an apartment window. She had been working as a domestic helper in Singapore. On @AJ101East :
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Silenced, censored, jailed. @AJ101East meets the Thai artists who say the countryโ€™s repressive laws are stifling free expression:
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Over 30 years, France carried out 193 nuclear tests in French Polynesia. New evidence shows the true extent of the human and environmental damage may be far greater than what France accepts responsibility for. 101 East investigates:
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There is a severe shortage of women in the Faroe Islands, and Asia is coming to the rescue. Watch:
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In the Philippines, about 500 babies are born to teenage mothers every day:
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Is Mongoliaโ€™s centuries old nomadic culture inching towards extinction? We asked The Hu, Mongoliaโ€™s most successful rock band. Full film:
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Cambodiaโ€™s forests are being plundered, day by day, tree by tree. @AJ101East heads deep into the countryโ€™s jungles to expose the illegal logging operations responsible for the destruction:
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The goal for vegan activists is a world that doesnโ€™t exploit animals. But do their tactics go too far? @AJ101East investigates:
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Millions of desperate workers are flooding into Malaysia. We expose those profiting from the vulnerable.
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Exclusive: 101 East exposes a web of Chinese fugitives and criminals linked to Cambodiaโ€™s most powerful. Thousands of victims enslaved, tortured and forced to commit online scams worth billions. Out now:
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Journalists have been arrested and news organisations forced to close. This week on 101 East, we investigate press freedom in Hong Kong and meet the journalists on the frontlines:
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โ€œWe are letting the world know whatโ€™s happening here.โ€ In this special report, Rohingya citizen journalists give 101 East exclusive access to more than two yearsโ€™ worth of footage revealing the grim realities of their lives in an apartheid state. Watch:
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Meet the US veterans who worked on the nuclear cleanup in the Marshall Islands. Many feel the government has abandoned them:
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Is there a difference between dogs raised for their meat, and those raised as pets? 101 East investigates South Koreaโ€™s dog meat industry:
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In Thailand, Police Major General Paween Pongsirin brought corrupt cops, politicians and military officials to justice. His reward? Asylum thousands of miles from his family and the country he loves. This is his story:
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Ritu Paswan comes from a family of domestic servants. Will her genius IQ change her future? On @AJ101East :
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@nslwin โ€œThey tied our hands and put us in the car...so we just say, OK, we are going to die.โ€ @AJ101East uses witness testimony and satellite images to reconstruct a secret interrogation centre in Myanmar.
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Thousands of India's sugarcane cutters are having their wombs removed. We asked one such worker, why she got the surgery. Find out more about the strange phenomenon unfolding in Maharashtra's sugarcane fields:
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Criminal syndicates are trafficking thousands of young men and women from across Asia into heavily guarded compounds in Cambodia, forcing them to run global cyber scams. Some survivors are now speaking out. Watch โ€˜Cambodiaโ€™s Cyber Slavesโ€™ on 101 East:
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#COP26 | Pakistanโ€™s biggest city, Karachi, only has enough water for about half its population of 20 million people. How are residents surviving the scarcity? 101 East investigates:
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Congratulations to @ForensicArchi for winning a Peabody Award for its body of work using digital 3D modelling to expose human rights violations. Watch our collaboration to uncover a secret interrogation centre run by Myanmarโ€™s military last year:
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. @AJ101East goes back to school to find out why Singapore students are top of the class and the price theyโ€™re willing to pay for success:
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As a university student in Kabul, Mahnaz Aliyar was pursuing her dream to one day become a politician. But when the Taliban took power in August 2021, everything came to a sudden halt. From Kabul to Canada, this is her story:
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Indonesia has one of the highest numbers of endangered species in the world, partly due to a thriving illegal wildlife trade servicing the demand for exotic pets and meat. @AJ101East reports from Sulawesi:
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In India, 16 year-old Saqib was accused of abducting and converting a Hindu girl to Islam. He was beaten by a mob, charged, arrested and jailed for 6 months. But he says he had nothing to do with the girl. What happened that night? Find out:
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For many women behind bars, domestic violence, sexual abuse, poverty and homelessness are part of their story. @AJ101East investigates:
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As fast food consumes Chinaโ€™s cities, obesity rates are off the scales. @AJ101East is at a fitness camp for kids in Shenzhen:
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As Thailand cracks down on controversial art, will you fly under the radar or rebel? Play the game:
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This is the story of Thai Police Major General Paween Pongsirin's biggest case. And how it became his last... ๐Ÿงต
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โ€œPlease give us back our deities and we will give you the replica.โ€ Nepalese conservationist Rabindra Puri is spearheading an unusual approach to secure the return of Nepalโ€™s stolen artefacts from western museums. Welcome to the โ€˜Museum of Stolen Artโ€™:
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The island nation of Fiji is a tropical haven. Itโ€™s also the chosen โ€˜promised landโ€™ of a Korean cult. 101 East investigates the dark side of paradise:
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Itโ€™s a dream come true for Nayana, a young Indian athlete, as she learns sheโ€™s been selected to train at an elite runnersโ€™ camp in the US. Her fatherโ€™s reaction, and more:
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