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But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

Today, reflections on a tumultuous year in Greece, all the fun of the fair in Paris. We're in India where the introduction of international

supermarkets is causing great controversy, and why Christmas needs to start so early in

Centelina.

President Obama's recent visit to Burma was aimed at extending a hand of friendship to a nation

that he said had embarked on a remarkable journey of reform, although he acknowledged

that it still has much further to go.

Burma is now open to foreign investment after being cut off from most of the world by two decades of sanctions.

There's been much excitement about the rich pickings in what some call Asia's last frontier.

But it's the Chinese who are well ahead of the game. The world's largest exporter has long helped keep Burma afloat through trade ties and arms sales.

In return, China got easy access to the country's oil, gas and other natural resources.

But China has started to lose some of its leverage and a number of its investment projects have sparked

social unrest. Lucy Ash travelled

to the northwest of the country where she found a Chinese venture has caused splits

between neighbors and even inside families.

Just after dawn, the dusty road is filled with people hurrying to work.

Young men and women scramble aboard a bus, carrying their lunch in tiffin boxes and plastic baskets.

They're off to their jobs as cleaners, cooks and maintenance staff at a Chinese-run copper mine. The company has built its Burmese workers a brand

new village with identical neatly spaced houses with corrugated metal roofs. They all have running water and electricity, a rarity in rural Burma.

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