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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 26/05/2012

Weekend Edition 26/05/2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 26/05/2012

Pascale Harter presents insights from Mexico, Argentina, Dubai, Turkey, China and the USA.

Pascale Harter with the pick of FOOC stories from around the world. Including: cheese in China, a Somali mogul's Bentley in Dubai, no schadenfreude in Turkey and the weekly grocery bill in Argentina.

Pascale Harter introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. In this edition:

Laura Trevelyan takes a nervous drive through a Mexican town that's a hub of international sex trafficking;

Jonathan Head explains why Turkey's now asking: do we need the EU, or does it need us more?

Ray Kershaw finds Argentines are beginning to see their weekly grocery shop as 'a lottery you can't win';

Mary Harper takes a spin in a Somali businessman's blingy Bentley through the glittering streets of Dubai;

David Belton meets the Amish communities refusing to abide by the New York state construction code - no 'devils on the wall' for them;

and Fuchsia Dunlop gets an unexpected lesson in China's Yunnan province - on how to make cheese, or 'milk cake' as it's known locally.

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