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11/03/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Places you’ve never been

From green deserts to transgender beauty contests Indonesia style

The housing crisis in Poland that’s part of the continuing fall out of World War Two; deserts turning green in Oman; and transgender beauty contests in Indonesia going underground

Correspondents around the world bring you unexpected stories from places most never deign to tread. We hear of the deserts going green in Oman; transgender beauty contests in Indonesia going underground; and the football pitches in Shanghai where the footballers are being exhorted to win the World Cup … even if it takes 1,000 years.

(Photo: A member of a Pesantren boarding school for transgender people known as 'waria' looking at the mirror, during Ramadan in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Credit: Getty Images)

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