Foreign Correspondent

In China they’re setting blistering speed records. From the go-fast, rich kids quickly amassing stables of super-cars to the developers building sky-scraping hotels – start to finish – in just 14 days. One local rich list estimates China has almost a million millionaires, 600 billionaires and the numbers keep growing at a staggering rate. Private jets are flying out of showroom hangers at mach 1. The economic transformation of China has been electrifying, but with Europe teetering and the U.S. plodding can the biggest tiger of all keep on roaring? The super-rich you’ll meet in our 2012 return certainly think so.

If Europe’s going down the gurgler why are the good burghers of Bavaria singing, dancing, and toasting their good fortune?

Even in war-weary Afghanistan, shocking images of a brutalised teenager only increased another young woman's determination to bring about change.

As the US tries to lessen its dependence on foreign oil, it’s turning instead to this controversial home-grown energy source.

If life’s two certainties are death and taxes then who blinks first in a face-off between God and The Taxman?

Bird flu is already aggressively lethal so why did researchers engineer a super strain that can be contracted far more easily?

Relaxing of restrictions to foreign journalists has allowed far easier access to people and places in this beautiful country.

With a steady growth in tourism, many Balinese locals are increasingly angry about the environmental and cultural impact.

If your children had been snatched by your partner and taken overseas you’d hope the law would be on your side and the authorities would do everything in their power to retrieve them. Well, not if they’ve been taken to one particular country with an infamous reputation for protecting kidnappers. Japan has become a refuge for nationals who’ve swiped their children from homes around the world and the catalogue of heartbreak is enormous. Unless, as one parent in our investigation has done, you side-step the law, hire some burly help and stop at nothing to get your children back.

50 years after the movie The Great Escape was released, based on a true WWII story, journalist Louise Williams uncovers a few flaws.

Miss Tibet - complete with bikinis & evening gowns. Is it all about liberation & empowerment or a cynical exercise in exploitation?

In all the excitement generated by the London Olympics, Philip Williams finds there are some who are less than enthusiastic.

Foreign Correspondent celebrates 20 years of international television reporting as reporters reflect on their most memorable moments.

Once a rich country's problem, obesity has now taken hold in poor and emerging countries where many have little idea of the danger.

In North & South Korea, a spectacular collision of real & virtual worlds - and the consequences are potentially earth shattering.

For 43 years this Vietnam veteran carried trauma, guilt – and a box of battlefield mementos. Now it's time to let them all go.

Together their future was very uncertain. Separated, they had better chance of a normal life... but there's always a risk.

With a new idea and a lot of luck, it's possible to earn millions in a very short time.

Both World Champions, these brothers are about to fight one of the biggest bouts of their careers - in the political arena.

As swarms of private and government drones gather in the skies, what's the risk to our personal security and privacy?

Israel has been running two very different operations aimed at stopping Iran developing nuclear weapons. One is very public, the other undercover. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presses Israel’s allies to intensify action against Iran and even threatens his own armed strike if Iran crosses a red line of nuclear development, Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad is taking a more personal approach. It’s been training its sights on the brains within Iran’s atomic program.

The Land of the Long White Cloud is now the Land of the Long Loud Scream. In a spectacularly successful marketing makeover, New Zealand has transformed itself into a magnet for thrill-seekers from all around the world, turning adrenalin into a billion dollar rush. If you want to throw yourself off things or out of things or into things that in turn roll, slide or fall from breathtaking heights – all in a setting of spectacular scenery - then this is the destination. But when things go wrong is New Zealand really the place to be?

The young Tallahassee tailgaters party in the football arena carpark, slugging rocket fuel from jars and chanting in unison: ‘No Obama! No Obama!’ Across town, the party faithful watching the Democrat National Convention are just as exuberant and emphatic. ‘What’s the biggest misconception about Barack Obama?’ one is asked. ‘Misconception? I can’t think of a single negative thing about him!’ One patch of Florida; two polarised views. Welcome to the swingingest election hotspot in America with the biggest bounty of all-important electoral votes among the swing states. If you want the White House you really should be trying to get Florida in the bag.

We’ve seen and heard a great deal about the economic apocalypse thumping Greece. Violent protests, enormous pain, staggering job losses, lives destroyed. But that’s not the complete picture. Meet the Greeks turning national disaster into personal triumph. They’re not sitting around under the thunderheads of austerity waiting for the economy to turn and the sun to shine again. They’re taking matters into their own hands.

It once commanded an empire that occupied an enormous swathe of the world, now the world wants a big slice of Mongolia. It’s boomtime in this isolated and undeveloped nation as global miners are racing to stake their claims on vast riches that rival, perhaps even eclipse Australia’s resources bounty. So, if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em and local mining giant Rio Tinto and developer Leighton are right in the thick of the action. But profound questions are being raised about the impact on environment, the proud traditions of nomadic herders and the ability of a small, unsophisticated government to deal with slick, lawyered-up multinationals.

One day you’ve got a roof over your head and you’re doing your best to feed, raise and protect your family with very little at all. The next day you’re huddled in the pouring rain wondering what happened to the shack you called a home. That’s the parlous, unpredictable reality for thousands of Cambodia’s poor, forcibly evicted from their houses in the name of progress. The country’s march to modernity is coming at a profound human cost as aggressive developers, corrupt officials and bulldozers roll over the top of some of Asia’s most vulnerable people. But a brave group of women are taking a resolute stand.