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April 5 is the UN's International Day for Mine Awareness.
Jane Cocking, chief executive of the Mines Advisory Group, and Jody Williams visiting Professor in Peace and Social Justice at the University of Houston and a former Nobel Peace Prize winner, discuss the fight to eradicate land mines around the World, and the damage they're still causing to development in communities across the globe.

Also on the programme, been driven mad by your laptop's battery dying just as you need it most? According to research in the UK, four out of five laptops tested had battery life which lasted only half the amount of time the manufacturers had promised it would. Ben Wood of CCS Insight explains why.

And a new book has been published on what was the largest insider trading scandal in corporate history. Black Edge tells the story of the billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen and the rise and fall of his hedge fund, SAC Capital. The book's author Sheelah Kolhatkar joins us.

The 大象传媒's Fergus Nicoll will be joined throughout the programme from Hong Kong by Andrew Peaple, deputy Asia finance editor for the Wall Street Journal. They'll also be joined from Sydney by the 大象传媒's Phil Mercer.

Picture: Moses Lodou, from South Sudan, recovers with his new prosthesis at the Physical Rehabilitation Reference Centre, in Juba South Sudan after being injured by a land mine. (Albert Gonzalez Farran/ AFP/ Getty Images).