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The Fifth Floor: Honey Hunting and Bees in Your Bonnet!

Honey harvesting in Nepal (credit: BBC)

16/11/2018 GMT

Honey Hunting and Bees in Your Bonnet!

BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor, Honey Hunting and Bees in Your Bonnet!

BBC India's adventurous reporters join the cliff-face wild honey harvesters of Nepal

Nepal's wild honey harvesters; sibling stand-off in Myanmar; tricky long names; Lviv bans Russian culture; Chengdu ear-cleaning; My Home Town Mexico City.  With David Amanor.

Hunting for wild honey is a tradition in rural Nepal and extremely dangerous.  Villagers descend sheer cliff faces on rope ladders to harvest the honeycomb.  This year the action was filmed by BBC India journalists Aamir Peerzada and Neha Sharma.  

Aung San Suu Kyi and her brother 
Aung San Suu Kyi is famous worldwide, but little is known about her elder brother, Aung San Oo.  Their long-running inheritance dispute is big news in Myanmar, and BBC Burmese journalist Nyein Chan Aye recently met him.

The long name challenge 
There are some stories newsreaders dread.  Take the current Madagascar elections, where you come up against the name of former president Hery Rajaonarimampianina.   We set our fifth floor colleagues the long name challenge.   

Lviv Russian ban 
In September the Ukrainian region of Lviv banned the 'the public use of Russian-language cultural products'.   Irena Taranyuk of BBC Ukrainian explains what that means and why it’s happening.
 
Chengdu’s ear-cleaners 
In the Sichuan capital Chengdu, locals like to relax in traditional Chinese tea-houses, sipping tea – and having their ears cleaned.  Yashan Zhao of BBC Chinese, who’s from Sichuan, describes the appeal of Chengdu's traditional ear-cleaning. 

My Home Town: Mexico City
Lourdes Heredia relives the sights, smells and tastes of hometown Mexico City.

Image: Aamir Peerzada and Neha Sharma with wild honey hunters in Nepal
Credit: BBC

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