Aug
18
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fngw98RjBEcSan Francisco is booming but its rapid income growth has come at a cost. The city which hosted the free love and hippie movements is now a playground for the Silicon Valley tech crowd. So has San Francisco lost...
Aug
01
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HX1I39rTcLcThailand has long been a world-famous tourist destination. But the tourism industry barely existed in the country before 1960. Its origins were in fact born out of a dark passage of American history.
Video by Vicky Feng, Tom Gibson, Robin...
Jul
15
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8nbz5VFilxYFifty years ago, a helicopter company called New York Airways whisked passengers from the rooftop of the iconic Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan to any city airport in just 10 minutes. A fatal accident in 1977 brought that...
Jun
30
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hiB5jZanyVgIt generates four times more gambling revenue than Las Vegas but there's more to Macau than slot machines and roulette. Look past the casinos to find a wealth of history and cuisine shaped by the fusion of Chinese and...
Apr
28
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VwipCNAwrxgIt was once known as a place where people went to work, rather than play - but a lot has changed. Singapore now boasts six of the world's best bars, 47 Michelin stars, and a vibrant mix of cultures.
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Apr
27
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oRNMFBEE460Bloomberg explores how the rising cost of Hong Kong Island is pushing travellers across Victoria Harbour to stay and explore Tsim Sha Tsui.
Video by Angus Bennett & Robin Fall
Apr
27
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8aPIEsnKb6oMike McCune is an engineer with Pratt & Whitney, the airplane manufacturer. After 30 years of development, he's created a gearbox for a jet engine that makes them 75% quieter and 15% more fuel efficient. That's a savings of...
Apr
24
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=phf1xo5S2sgThese single-axle rolling campers are comforting, birch-wood wombs inspired by Danish design and made with all-American parts. The three Purser brothers who build them by hand want them to be used to help adventurers find solitude, sanctuary, and simplicity....
Apr
19
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gqVgxJCDAkUWelcome to The City of London, once the preserve of stuffy bankers - The City is re-inventing itself as the place to be. New restaurants, bars and hotels have moved into this ancient part of London injecting some late-night...
Apr
18
2020
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lcrfk6OoZIwShenzhen has been dubbed the Silicon Valley of hardware. If you own a smartphone or computer, odds are parts of it came from here. In 30-years the city has grown from a town into a megacity of over 12...