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From Our Own Correspondent: China's corruption clampdown

10/03/2016

China's corruption clampdown

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, China's corruption clampdown

Since China's clampdown on corruption, the pearl and jewellery shops are empty.

China's clampdown on corruption, and other stories from Brazil, the Democratic Republic of China, the Golan Heights and Greece.

In China, customers are staying away from the pearl and jewellery shops, but lingerie sales are soaring. The strange effects that the clampdown on corruption is having on the country's economy. 

Fighting elephant poachers can a dangerous business in the Democratic Republic of Congo where part of who you're up against appears to be a neighbouring country's army. We travel on the ancient Via Egnatia that used to join two great empires. Though on the modern Greek version of the route, you don't get quite as far as you hope. Though it's nothing to do with closed borders. And, with the zika virus outbreak in Brazil, would you want to try for a baby there now? What if you're at an age where you can't afford to wait too much longer?

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