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This week, Laura McDowell and Teodosia Dos Reis join domestic workers in Timor Leste as they march for their rights (00:50), Adam Bemma talks to political groups in Thailand trying to decentralise politics from the capital of Bangkok (10:12), Quinn Libson interviews researchers highlighting Facebook’s struggles with the Khmer language (17:41), and James Rose reflects on the weaponisation of the word “Rohingya” in Myanmar (28:37).

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