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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition 9 Sept 2012

Weekend Edition 9 Sept 2012

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition 9 Sept 2012

Pascale Harter with the pick of recent  stories and insight from writers around the world

Pascale Harter with stories on Russian skinheads, racism in India, Chinese migrants to the US, maids in Mumbai, Peru's fake banknotes, German beaches ... and the last train from Spanish Town, Jamaica.

The pick of recent dispatches from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world, presented by Pascale Harter. In this edition:

TOM ESSLEMONT meets the Russian skinheads so nationalist they despise Putin - for being "soft on multiculturalism"

RAHUL TANDON hears why people from the "Seven Sisters" states in the Northeast feel they suffer racism from other Indians;

CINDY SUI reflects on the differing family fortunes of relatives who emigrated to the US and those who stayed on in China;

RAJINI VAIDYANATHAN explores the sometimes fraught relationship between India's domestic workers and their employers;

MATTIA CABITZA learns how to spot a fake banknote in Peru;

NICK DAVIS jumps on the last Jamaican passenger train ever to ply between Spanish Town and Kingston;

and STEVE EVANS muses on a very special German invention: the strandkorb, the ultimate accessory for a day at the beach.

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