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Weekend Edition 14 Jan 2012

Owen Bennett Jones with the pick of recent stories from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents abroad. Contributors: Fergal Keane, Michael Bristow, Nidhi Dutt, Krupa Padhy, Nick Thorpe, Libby Spurrier and Stephen Sackur.

Owen Bennett Jones introduces the pick of recent insight and analysis from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents around the world. In this edition:

Fergal Keane asks how political change might beat back poverty in Burma;

Nick Thorpe asks "Europe's new bogeyman", Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, why he's sticking to the country's new constitution;

Michael Bristow rides the tourist wave flooding into China's Yunnan province;

Libby Spurrier hears the laments of Egypt's under-employed guides around Luxor;

Krupa Padhy finds the gleaming surfaces of Gurgaon near Delhi conceal social divides - and dodgy plumbing;

Nidhi Dutt survives an all-too-close brush with sexual harassment or 'eve teasing' in Mumbai;

and Stephen Sackur goes into a laboratory to explore the "science of deliciousness" in Copenhagen.

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Sat 14 Jan 2012 09:05GMT

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