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From Our Own Correspondent: Highlights of the year: Asia

27/12/2012

Highlights of the year: Asia

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Highlights of the year: Asia

China's superlatives, pushy Indian parents, sweaty South Korea and animist rites in Burma

Martin Patience writes on China's statistics mania; Rahul Tandon on passing as a pushy Indian parent; Lucy Williamson on S Korea's dress codes and Kim Philley on Burmese spirits.

Pascale Harter presents extracts from some of the year's most memorable dispatches from Asia. With stories from Martin Patience, examining why China's so obsessed with statistics and superlatives; Rahul Tandon, paying for advice on how to pass for a pushy Indian parent and get his child into one of Calcutta's best schools; Lucy Williamson, in the Seoul bureau, hosting a friend fleeing South Korea's rigid dress codes; and Kim Philley, watching ancestral spirits dance again in an animist festival in Mandalay, Burma.

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