Im melissa chan youre watching news asia thank you for joining us this week marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall and you might wonder what does that have to do with this program well some 60000 compatriots from communist vietnam worked in east germany in 1989 and when germany unify many opted to stay some sought asylum especially those who believed more in the capitalist system others married germans were gardeners how they stayed on many faced hostility for their decision. Quanto always dreamed of owning her own restaurant in 1976 the then 19 year old came to former east germany from vietnam. Nor. My white flour address represented germany because it was given to me by german aid workers. So when i got the job training offer i immediately said yes i had no idea what i was getting myself into. It was a little. Release. She liked life in east germany vietnamese people were considered to be very industrious but after her job training. Had to return to a vietnam that had been destroyed by war then in 1987 she was offered the opportunity to return to east germany in a small town as a contract worker but the attitude towards foreigners had changed him of envy i wore become an. Eyesore. Whenever we went shopping the cashiers look down at us as though we had just walked out of the jungle. This is the building that one true used to work in a former clothes factory she quickly realized that people like her were only there to make up for the lack of skilled workers in east germany they were encouraged to not have contact with east germans in 1909 the wall fell germans were overjoyed but it was a precarious time for contract workers. When i was so worried i didnt know what was going to happen i thought it was all over me and. Over the following years the government tried to put the form of contract workers. Was allowed to stay because she was married to a german but she ran into opposition including her doctor he had been in charge of the contract workers in her small town. He asked me what are you still doing here i answered i live here he replied but we dont mind you anymore there is no east germany anymore and. Hatred of foreigners peaks in 1992 with aggressive Gang Violence right wing radicals such apartment buildings on fire and burned cars that belongs to vietnamese work because we have been thirsty miles on my money we saw the attacks on t. V. My husband cried. And i told him these are hard times for us i might have to leave the country. Still one traitor stayed today she feels more at home here but racism has again been on the rise in germany. To live their. Lives and of course i hope that the people i like will remain in the majority so that we wont be in danger. I truly hope that will be the case it is up to all of us to open ourselves up to foreigners and not be scared of them because people from other countries are the salt in the soup of society. Going in there. It is over there so yes. Germany has become her home but one truth still has her vietnamese passport just in case. Being a human rights activist in china takes grit take the case of you when shen who was arrested on trumped up charges of subverting state power we dont even know where shes been detained so of course the focus is on you to the point so that its easy sometimes to forget the family members and the mental and Emotional Trauma they endure. Sure jaan is on a mission crisscrossing china on trains. Well its a little bit confronting a system shrouded in secrecy as if i still dont know where my husband is or his situation. In pursuit of justice and answers for 680 days her husband you when sharing a human rights lawyer has been behind bars where exactly and for how long only those in power know that. I feel helpless very disappointed and feeling like theres nothing i can do i also feel disappointed as they dont do things according to the law. But as i see these things in my heart i will never give up i will continue. Here. For months shes been making the long trip to shoot you City Detention Center where she believes her husband is being held. Inside she clings to hope and a bag of warm clothes for the long winter ahead in the end there is no confirmation you is even here. The un shang i know is a good lawyer he was only practicing his rights and using his freedom of speech. This shouldnt happen to him and its very unfair on my family. If youre. Going there for flanked by use lawyers she heads next to the District Court to demand information use case was heritier in secret please give short shrift to her desperate plight patience is running thin the mission my body is extremely tired going from beijing to is very far often i leave beijing in the morning at 5 am and its not even light of 5 sometimes its raining sometimes its snowing its already been 2 years im extremely tired tired to the point where i get sick leaves and we. Eventually they resolve to file a complaint about used treatment the little expectation that it will make a difference another day in a cafe system similarly designed to obfuscate and frustrate. Joining us is kong from our East Asia Bureau c b the u. N. Saying case is not an isolated incident this has been going on for years where not only the activists but the activists family members are targeted no. Yeah we can tell this is just the tip of the iceberg in recent years like you have mentioned activists and human rights lawyer are often targeted by the authorities they are while they are prosecuted charged or even sent to jail but families are also the target of the governments that are especially for those who have apparently committed no crime the flatteries the authorities try to pressure them by other means beyond the law for example lucia out there would all of the Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate of war was under house arrest for 8 years so she was in the allowed to leave her own apartment even though she has never been charged for another example children is no exception as well that. Turns and that activist daughter was not allowed to go to school p. Cuz of of her fathers charge phoebe can you tell us a little bit about how the chinese Justice System works i understand the activists dont even have access to their lawyers that much you know in china or whenever sex is involved in a charge or related to National Security corruption and terrorism then there are 40 were detained them and not letting them to meet their lawyers not to mention their families so they are deprived of their civil rights to a point that own legal representatives some of them are even sent to our secret trial or a sentence without informing their families. Thank you. Chinese president xi jinping backs hong kongs beleaguered and unpopular leader kerry lam thats despite months of protests that have brought as much as a 1000000 people of the 7000000 living there out onto the streets she made his public remarks in a meeting with lamb well despite what he says protesters fight on including as you can see here in Virtual Reality hong kong has a digitally savvy population and activists have used technology in creative ways to promote their cause. But another night of protests in hong kong but not on the actual streets in a brutal reality game replicating whats happening on the front line. That was developed by hong kong gamers to give players all over the world a better sense of the conditions faced by the citys prodemocracy demonstrators. One of the creators as well she now conceal her identity after taking part in unauthorized protests. We hope to also mention that you know awareness by. Imitating peace protests can lead to people who didnt ever experience in frontline protest can. Experience it in the all for. Developers call their game liberate hong kong players wearing for actual reality headsets can take in the protest zone with a 360 degree perspective. They can play the role of a real life activist just not anything illegal such as inciting violence. In a game last year to experience what car sr from our 4th test has been through for example getting arrested getting hit by bullets. Getting to stay away need to stay away from the danger of those tear gas canisters. A similar role playing was recently suspended by google. Liberate hong kongs developers are hoping that an american on my Gaming Platform will release their version sometime in november. That show will leave you with pictures of vietnamese guest workers invited to come work in germany during the communist era thank you for watching and if i. Dont need to keep the. Old for over much at home the 4th and. Last person in the words or at least the bottom of the valley is at the last dragon. Called the harlem. River on. Your france dear antonio heres a scene when your mother was born in 1969 the world was already 8 years old my grandchildren were born after the wall fell born in the final. 3 generations one family on a journey through recent german history and. Stuarts number 60 on do you w. No one wins a trade was the message from the french president on a trip to china. To play fair and good for. Access. Are already has a foothold in europe to take a look at how the chinese trade around at the greeks. And its search of the Perfect Group we visit an indonesian village thats becoming a mecca for coffee tourists. And. Its to business. French president obama is in china to drum up new business and blow the trumpet for free trade accompanied by other e. U. Leaders he met his chinese counterpart xi jinping at a vast fair in shanghai against the backdrop of a trade war between washington and beijing. At the International Import expo in shanghai my call and she raised a glass to global trade but behind the bon ami are deeper efforts to ease the tensions stifling local commerce the e. U. Wants china to open its markets further despite repeated promises of reforms European Companies are still disadvantaged in china now. Creating new balance links requires that Chinese Market access procedures be accelerated to make more transparent to enable Foreign Companies especially innovative ones to establish themselves in china with confidence. Of the question. She repeated his mantra by