Producer: Aidila Razak Producer: Adam Bemma Producer: Aisyah Llewellyn Producer: Victoria Milko

This week, Adam Bemma speaks to LGBT rights activists working to establish an advocacy network in Laos (00:50), Victoria Milko visits a peace park set up by the Karen ethnic group in conflict-embroiled Myanmar (09:15), Aidila Razak speaks to a trans woman who left her home country of Malaysia to seek asylum in the UK (17:26), and Aisyah Llewellyn talks about her experience covering the December 2018 tsunami from Lampung in South Sumatra (26:01).

Aidila Razak is a journalist. She is temporarily based in London, pursuing an MA in Digital Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has spent almost a decade writing about Malaysian politics and society, and can usually be found musing about these topics on her Twitter account @aidilarazak.