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101 East
Teymoor Nabili presents a weekly discussion programme on Asia-Pacific current affairs.
Last Modified: 17 Apr 2007 12:58 GMT
Teymoor Nabili - Presenter
Whatever the view, wherever the voice, 101 East will listen to the opinion and examine the issues facing the Asia-Pacific region today.
 
From Mongolia to New Zealand, Thailand to Tokyo, 101 East will investigate the main talking points as well as being reactive to the big stories in the region, and the rest of the world.
Every week the programme will travel across the region to look at one of the main stories of the week in more detail.
 
The aim is to meet the people who are affected by these issues and get their opinion on the ground as we find out what challenges they face in their everyday lives.
Back in the studio, presenter Teymoor Nabili will then take up the issues with a panel of two to three guests who will deliberate the key points and weigh up the controversies behind the headlines.
 
Business or politics, personal or public, 101 East aims to bring greater understanding of the Asia-Pacific region, its peoples and its cultures to the rest of the world.
 
Coming up this week on 101 East:                                                                   
 
 
Siam-Burma Death Railway
 
101 East was filmed on location
in the shadow of the Bridge on
the River Kwai
The story of the Siam-Burma Railway is an ugly chapter of WWII.
 
But, the rarely told story is that the majority of sweat and blood spilled on the railway belonged to Asian workers forced to work as slaves by the imperial Japanese army.
 
Now for the first time, some of the survivors of that horror have brought their case to court demanding compensation and an apology.
 
Loke Wing Yue was forced to
work on the railway
101 East follows the battle for compensation of the forgotten survivors of the infamous Siam-Burma Death Railway.
 
We take Loke Wing Yue, an 83-year-old who was taken by the Japanese to Burma to work on the bridge when he was just 17, back to the bridge where he tells us his story and the story of thousands like him who did not survive.
 
The railway is still in use
In the shadow of the Bridge on the River Kwai we bring together two guests who are intimately involved in both the past and the present of the Siam-Burma Railway.
 
Sivarasa Rasiah is a human rights lawyer who is representing a group of about 1500 civilians who survived the horrors of the railway. Jeyathurai is a WWII historian and the director of the Changi museum.
 
Find out on 101 East at 16:30 GMT every Friday on Al Jazeera English and repeated during the week.

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