''Inside Asia'' was a weekly, 30-minute feature program on

CNN International CNN International (CNNI, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel that is owned by CNN Global. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates with sister network CNN's national and inte ...

in the late 1990s the focused on current events, trends, culture and

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in Asia. During its first few years, the program was hosted by CNN Hong Kong anchor Patricia Chew, and included reports from CNN correspondents throughout

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

. Its success resulted in the creation of additional "Inside" programs at CNN International - Inside

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

and Inside the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europ ...

External links

* http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/world/0205/east.timor.tv/content4.html * http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/01/i_ia.00.html * http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1997/08/11/story7.html CNN original programming {{CNN International shows