Podcast
Program on April 2nd, 2011
In today’s program Afghans prepare for the withdrawal of foreign troops. Also we visit a prison in Pakistan where an alternative world cup cricket competition is taking place. And an investigative journalist who has devoted his life to finding why the Khmer Rouge killed his family and millions of others. |
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Bangladesh the first country in the world to ban plastic bags: Bangladesh was the first country to impose a nationwide ban of plastic bags. Ten years old this month, the government slapped an outright ban on all polythene bags after they were found to have been the main culprit during the 1988 and 1998 floods that submerged two-thirds of the country. It has successfully cleaned up the streets and drains of the country, while stimulating a re-birth of the jute bag industry. Farzana Rupa reports from the drains of Dhaka.
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