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Follow the story of Angel Liu, a financial advisor with a deep love for rugby as she shares her experiences about the Sevens and how it has impacted her family. She reminisces about her early beginnings in rugby, spreading her love for the sport to the people around her.This is a sponsored content by SportSG.

In Malaysia, a socially conservative society heavily guided by religious laws, women who get pregnant out of wedlock face stigma and condemnation. This pressure, coupled with strict abortion laws, leads them to abandon their babies in unimaginable places. Half of these babies do not survive.Baby hatches have appeared as a safe haven for mothers to anonymously give up their babies. BUANG BAYI delves into the socio-cultural reasons of baby abandonment through the hatch and explores what can be done to resolve this issue.

The relationship between Raymond and his father is more than just father and son, they are also master and apprentice. Through this documentary, we would like to show you this special father and son conversation.

Amos Wainggai, is a survivor of the boat people from West Papua who spent five days at sea in a traditional outrigger boat before arriving to the far north of Queensland’s Cape York, Australia in January 2006. The political tension between Australia and Indonesia then came up after Australia government granted to them temporary protection visas. This is a story about 30 men, 6 women and 7 children. They are now living in some cities in Australia and hold Australia’s citizenship.

Uneven development, centralized only in the capitals, forces Melky and his acquaintance to find a job in Jakarta, a city strange to them. People's stereotype about the eastern Indonesian fellow builds a new work structure. Having limited options, Melky becomes a part of the minority.

Known to grow to the size of a small dog and live to 40 years old, the giant Tasmanian freshwater lobster is the largest of its kind in the entire world, but its home is being destroyed by sediment runoff from logging. However, there is hope – Todd Walsh the lobster man has grown up with this crayfish that gently inches its way around the northern rivers of Australia's southern-most island. This is his plea to protect a rare and remarkable creature.

Mukhtar shares a memory from the morning of 26 December 2004 when the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated his village in the Aceh Barat district (Aceh, Indonesia.)

Karl May is a 19th century German writer who’s famous for his adventure tales in Wild West and the Far East. Characters like Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, and Kara Ben Nemsi influenced the imagination of many generations of Indonesian readers, from the founding fathers in 1920 to the millennial generation.How did this impact the Indonesian readers and how did Karl May's novels inspired the independence of Indonesia?

Using his skills in bamboo wreath, Tokhidul Mihbar, a disabled man, strives to be the best for himself and his family.

Three women working in a Vietnamese restaurant in Singapore tell their stories of leaving their hometowns in Vietnam and coming to Singapore as “mail-ordered wives” with hopes of giving their children brighter futures.

Bikers Subuhan Jogjakarta is a social documentary focusing on a group of bikers who gather once a week at various mosques across Jogjakarta at dawn. They conduct prayers as well as fundraising activities for the mosques, needy and those affected during natural disasters.

A short documentary that attempts to explain the mentality of the Greek taxpayers and their view on tax evasion.