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The markets remain unimpressed as four big oil producers pledge to freeze output - we'll ask what could stop the price slide - and we'll hear from the city dubbed the UK's oil capital - Aberdeen in northern Scotland - where diversification is the new rule. We also hear from Professor Jason Bordoff of Columbia University.

The mining giant Anglo American revealed on Tuesday just how badly it's been hit by falling metals prices worldwide. It reported a pre-tax loss of 5-and-a-half billion dollars for 2015. The falling price of copper has had a big impact in Zambia, where copper mining forms the backbone of the economy. Matthew Davies reports from the Copperbelt.

ASEAN meets in California, where President Obama highlights continuing territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Several ASEAN member states are in direct territorial conflict with China - not an ASEAN member - which has been annexing territory and building concrete islands on the flimsiest of atolls out in the ocean.

Cuba is one of the Caribbean's most popular tourists destinations for European and Canadian holidaymakers - but if you're American until very recently, only religious, educational and cultural groups could legally travel to Cuba. That's set to change. On Tuesday, it was announced that the first commercial flights between the two countries for 50 years will resume later this year. The 大象传媒's Will Grant reports from Havana.

The World Health Organisation has said countries fighting the Zika virus should think about new ways of combating the mosquito-borne disease. We hear from one Brazilian family affected by the virus.

The government of Taiwan is promising to spend more than three-quarters of a billion dollars rebuilding after the earthquake ten days ago - as well as on resettling survivors. Cindy Sui tells us more from Taipei.

We cross over to Singapore to get a flavour of the air show with the 大象传媒's Karishma Vaswani

And we're joined throughout the programme by Simon Long, "Banyan", The Economist's Asia columnist - he's with us from Singapore. Meanwhile, Lizzie O'Leary is the host of Marketplace Weekend on our US partner station - she's with us from New York.

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