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Mexico's apology to the Mayans

A belated apology from Mexico鈥檚 president, but is it too little and too late?

Last week, Mexico's President Andr茅s Manuel L贸pez Obrador apologised to the indigenous Mayan people for abuses committed against them since independence. But with elections looming, some are questioning the timing of the apology. The 麻豆社's Lourdes Heredia discusses this historic moment.

Targetting Afghan girls
Zuhal Ahad of 麻豆社 Afghan shares her experiences of reporting on the bomb attack outside a girls' school last weekend which left more than 80 dead, many of them schoolgirls. It happened in her childhood neighbourhood in Kabul, which has seen several devastating attacks in recent years.

America's 'green gold rush'
Zhaoyin Feng, who reports from Washington for 麻豆社 Chinese, tells us about her trip to Oklahoma to report on the latest frontier in America's so-called marijuana gold rush. It's attracted many Chinese American investors and Chinese immigrant workers.

Who becomes an Islamic extremist?
麻豆社 Indonesian's Silvano Hajid investigates the role of social media in recruiting young Indonesians to commit terrorist attacks through the story of a young man called Akbar. He was only 16 years old when he tried to join a group affiliated with so-called Islamic State in Syria.

Bengali kitchen divide
Bengalis are united by a love of good food, but divided over who cooks it. West Bengalis love poppy seeds and sugar, while Bangladeshis go for dried fish and chilli. 麻豆社 Bangla journalists Manoshi Barua from India's West Bengal state, and Masud Khan from Bangladesh, shed light on the Bengali kitchen divide, with David Amanor.

Image: The festival of Valle del Maiz in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Credit: Kobby Dagan/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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