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FRONTLINE/World reporter Nguyen Qui Duc visits Shanghai, a changing boomtown on the edge of China's cultural frontier, with literary "bad girl" Mian Mian, whose writing about sex, drugs and music rocked a generation.

FRONTLINE/World reporter Emily Taguchi profiles Japanese businessman Kikuo Morimoto, a social entrepreneur who made it his life's work to revive the lost art of Cambodian silk making.

FRONTLINE/World reporter Jason Margolis travels to an area of the Philippines rich with marine wildlife to investigate the efforts to clean-up a devastating oil spill.

FRONTLINE/World reporter Samantha Grant heads to Chennai in southern India to explore the illicit organ market and find out why so many people there are willing to sell their kidneys illegally.

FRONTLINE/World reporter Isaac Solotaroff travels to Tibet with American doctor Marc Leiberman, who teaches locals to perform cataract surgery.

FRONTLINE/World reporter Gita Pullapilly profiles Father Thomas Koshy, a priest in southern India providing education, shelter, and better opportunities to the country's growing number of street children.

FRONTLINE/World reporter Natasha Del Toro takes a musical adventure to Haiti to cover a chaotic first-time music festival in a country where nothing works.

In China' s industrial countryside, FRONTLINE/World reporter Duane Moles finds that digging for coal is literally undermining whole villages.

FRONTLINE/World reporter Zach Stauffer travels to Ghana for a story about a fledgling baseball community in a land where soccer has been the overwhelming sports passion.

FRONTLINE/World reporter Karzan Sherabayani travels to the mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Kurdish smugglers engage in the fruitful, albeit illicit, practice of bringing alcohol across the border into Iran.

A FRONTLINE/World investigation into the thriving global sex trade in Dubai, the Utopian oasis of the Middle East, reported by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Photography Professor Mimi Chakarova.

FRONTLINE/World correspondent David Montero reports on how Pakistani housewife Amina Masood Janjua's campaign to find her missing husband sparked national protests challenging Pakistan's feared intelligence agency, the ISI, and led to events that would severely test Musharraf's power.

Frustrated by his country's lack of healthcare for the poor, especially those in rural areas, Dr. Edgar Rodas started an organization of volunteer Ecuadorian doctors who trek high into the Andes and deep into the Amazon, performing surgeries on a hospital truck and boat. Watch these dedicated doctors in action in the latest FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut video about individuals trying to make a difference in the world.

While trekking in Nepal in 1998, American John Wood saw that many children couldn't afford to go to school and that schools in the poorest rural areas had a chronic shortage of books. It was a transformational experience for Wood that spurred him to start a literacy program called Room to Read. This week's FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut tells the story of Wood's nonprofit that now helps to educate millions of children in the developing world and visits some of the Nepalese communities his program has helped.

"You must learn how to say no," booms Ugandan evangelical minister Martin Ssempa. "Say 'I do not want to have sex. I have chosen not to have sex.'" So begins this week's FRONTLINE/World Rough Cut, which looks at the controversy over U.S. funding for AIDS relief in Africa.