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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 23/06/2012

Weekend Edition 23/06/2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 23/06/2012

Pascale Harter with the pick of this week's  insight and analysis from around the world.

Pascale Harter introduces the pick of this week's despatches. Everything from water gangs in Delhi to dress codes in Seoul. With stories from the USA, Madagascar, India, Nepal, South Korea and China.

Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. Presented by Pascale Harter. In this edition:

JILL McGIVERING on the water-supply crisis leaving farmers and slumdwellers in India going thirsty;

JONNY DYMOND finds King Coal now dethroned in the Appalachian town of Hazard, east Kentucky;

LUKE FREEMAN meets the child masons who chip granite all day, every day, for the mansions of Madagascar's new rich;

JAMES McCONNACHIE takes a stomach-lurching bus ride along one of the new roads being blasted through Nepal's mountainsides;

LUCY WILLIAMSON finds that energy-saving initiatives plus rigid social dress codes can make life very uncomfortable for office workers in South Korea;

and FUCHSIA DUNLOP trips the light fantastic on a nostalgia-fuelled visit to one of Shanghai's most renowned dancehalls.

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