Kyrgyzstan and Taiwan

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Tony Grant introduces insights from BBC correspondents working around the world. In this edition: Rayhan Demytrie reflects on the deep divisions left even a full year after the Uzbek/Kyrgyz violence of June 2010, while Chris Hogg talks to a former fish-smuggler about the interests driving trade between China and Taiwan. Fear and mistrust linger on in Kyrgyzstan For centuries, the city of Osh in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan has been shared by two ethnic groups: the Kyrgyz and Uzbeks. But exactly a year ago Osh was torn apart by violence between them. Whole neighbourhoods were set ablaze, and nearly five-hundred people were killed - the majority of them Uzbeks. Rayhan Demytrie watched the horror unfold and tried her best to report impartially and truthfully on these terrible events. But she's been unable to avoid being drawn into the bitterness of the aftermath. Big fish, little fish: how China and Taiwan do business In Taiwan, there's always one big question: how to handle relations with China - the giant just across the sea. China regards the island as a breakaway province which it must somehow reclaim, and at times there's even been talk of war. But recently, tensions have eased, and Taiwain's leaders have tried to forge links with China. Chris Hogg went to meet a man who's lived this story - though the apparently unlikely route of smuggling fish...