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From Our Own Correspondent: Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea

30/11/2012

Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea

Stories on slum dwellers in Bangladesh and romance and violence in Papua New Guinea.

Pascale Harter presents stories on slum dwellers in Bangladesh and romance and violence in Papua New Guinea.

Pascale Harter presents stories from Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea.

In today’s programme, we visit a slum in Bangladesh. Despite the difficult conditions, residents are glad to trade difficult life in farming villages for a few modern conveniences and the chance to earn money in the city. But it seems that improvements always come with a cost. David Hulme has been investigating.

Plus, Georgina Kenyon has been visiting Papua New Guinea, where astounding natural beauty and romantic fairy tales live side-by-side with a dark epidemic of domestic violence.

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