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Unravelling My Father's Mystery Life

An Indian family enigma unravelled; crossing the Darien Gap; Saudi fashion week; home to Uzbekistan; Dhaka's mischievous mosquitoes; South Korean drop-outs. With David Amanor.

40 years ago Manoshi Barua inherited a notebook with an old newspaper clipping inside. It was in Chinese, and showed a photo of her father as a young Indian doctor working in China. So what did it say? When chance brought Manoshi together on the fifth floor with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ China's Yuwen Wu, she had the opportunity to crack the mystery.

Crossing the Darien Gap
The Darien Gap is a huge jungle area along the Panama-Colombia border, notorious for armed gangs, smugglers, and impenetrable undergrowth. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mundo's Alejandro Millan had a childhood dream to go there, but his dream became a nightmare.

Saudi Fashion Week
This week Saudi Arabia hosted its first Arab Fashion Week, with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arabic's Hanan Razek catwalk-side.

Return to Uzbekistan
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Uzbek's Ibrat Safo has just visited Uzbekistan after an absence of 14 years. Family feasts, high-brow taxi drivers, selfies with fans and fresh spring air: impressions from an overdue homecoming.

Living with mosquitoes
When mosquitoes are sitting happily on smoking mosquito coils you know you have a problem. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Bangla's Rocky Shahnewaj lives in the capital Dhaka and knows all about these disease-spreading, high-pitched nuisances.

Dropping out in South Korea
South Korean schoolchildren spend upwards of 12 hours a day in education, often not returning home until midnight. Competition is intense, and drop-outs face stigma and discrimination. William Lee of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Korean has been asking drop-outs about life outside the system.

Image: Manoshi Barua holding a newspaper cutting
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Fri 13 Apr 2018 17:06GMT

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  • Fri 13 Apr 2018 11:06GMT
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  • Fri 13 Apr 2018 17:06GMT