Last week, people living in northern Japan woke to eerie alarms and alert messages on their mobile phones, telling them that a missile had been launched and was passing over them. Rachel Mealey reports.

Papua New Guinea has the world's third-largest rainforest, home to unique and beautiful species of wildlife but increasing numbers of those animals are being caught and sold on the streets of the country's growing cities. Eric Tlozek reports.

On this week's edition of Correspondents Report: Reports of attacks by security forces on Rohingya Muslims raise difficult ethical questions for Southeast Asia correspondent Liam Cochrane; China correspondent Bill Birtles on reporting in an authoritarian regime; And in London, Steve Cannane observes how a culture of bike riding can help a nation keep fit.

Disturbing reports in Western Myanmar have been emerging of the brutal crackdown underway on the region's Muslim Rohingyas. Liam Cochrane reports.

You'd think a country with 1.4 billion people would be bursting with stories. But not when you've got a highly restrictive environment that actively inhibits free speech. Bill Birtles reports.

Back in the year 2000, motor cars entering central London during the morning peak outnumbered cyclists by more than 11 to 1, now that figure is below 2 to 1. And Australian cities could learn a thing or two from London planners and motorists. Steve Cannane reports.

Ten days of war games in South Korea are continuing against a backdrop of heightened political tension. Reporter Barbara Miller travelled to Seoul as the military exercises began.

The ABC's Defence correspondent Andrew Greene recently travelled to Guam, when Kim Jong-un threatened to make it target practice.

When representatives from the US and Australian governments sat down on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last year to sign off on a refugee swap deal, it wasn't for the first time. As North America correspondent Stephanie March reports, this latest deal could go the same way but for a different reason.

Big news in Britain: Big Ben will bong no more…at least for a while. Correspondent James Glenday reports.