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  • Meet the Fearless Dragons running team

    It's an unusually cold December evening in Hong Kong. At this particular running track, only a few dedicated runners are braving the frigid temperatures -- a couple of high-school sprinters, an old man shuffling along, a middle-aged man who just changed out of his suit and tie for a post-work run.

  • About Above & Beyond

    Each day ordinary people do extraordinary things. CNN's Above & Beyond series highlights the lives of individuals across Asia who dedicate themselves to helping others, fighting prejudice and making their communities better places to live.
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      Fresh Start

    • Modern, imaginative and fundamentally French food, sea urchin in lobster jelly, with cauliflower, caviar and crispy seafood waffle is one of Richard Ekkebus' signature dishes.

      Cooking up a new future

      After several stints in prison, Benny Se Teo was a reformed character, and set his mind to establishing a restaurant chain from scratch.

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        Music gives India's children a voice

        As Faith Gonsalves walks through the dusty streets of a slum on the outskirts of New Delhi, she passes pigs rummaging through piles of trash, and colorful saris hanging out to dry. In a nearby doorway, a girl and a boy sit with furrowed brows.