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From Our Own Correspondent: What’s Left Behind?

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05/04/2014

What’s Left Behind?

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, What’s Left Behind?

Stories about the people, places and things left behind, from BBC correspondents.

Personal stories about the people, places and things left behind – dispatches sent home from BBC correspondents around the world.

Stories about people, places and things left behind, told by the BBC’s extensive team of foreign correspondents.

Humphrey Hawksley visits an enclave within an enclave – a village that more than 20 years ago fought to remain part of Moldova rather than the breakaway republic of Transnistria. But with higher living standards across the border, would they fight again if Russia decided to intervene?

Travel writer Diana Darke owns a house in Damascus. But for some time now she's been unable to get to her home in the Syrian capital, and she relies on visitors willing to brave the trek to Lebanon to keep on top of her affairs. The paperwork the visitors bring with them has given her an insight into the Syrian conflict.
 
We revisit a story told by Charlotte Ashton about the misery of living in Singapore, and the reaction that her piece provoked in her new home. 

In India, Rajan Datar found a load of old rubbish – by the side of the road in Goa, that is. The mountains of garbage threaten the local tourist industry, but a few enterprising souls have a plan to clean up the mess.

In the American states of Pennsylvania and Ohio – along with a growing number of others - there remains a group of people determined to stay away from modern technology. The Amish live a simple and devout life. Beth McLeod finds out how successful they’ve been at keeping globalisation at bay.

And finally on the programme, Alex Preston makes an unusual discovery in Sri Lanka. The normally cricket-mad country has now embraced rugby in a big way.

Presenter: Pascale Harter	
Producer: Mike Wendling
Photo: A young boy is covered in a blanket as he rides in the back of a Amish buggy during a snowfall in January 2014. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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