Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Faked radiotraffic,

rickety wooden landing craft,

droves of dummies parachuting in.

Military leaders have throughout history depended on tricking the enemy.

We look at the artistry behind the trickery

and how the best days of clever ruses seem to be passed.

And Christmas dinner means vastly different things depending on where you are.

We look into the history of holiday menus and why in Japan,

Christmas means a barrel of fried chicken.

First up though.

When a boat carrying hundreds of refugees set off two weeks ago,

it was just the start of a mammoth rehousing project.

Three years ago, more than 700,000 Rohingya,

a minority Muslim group, fled from Myanmar.

The Burmese Army's horrifying program of ethnic cleansing

drove them into neighboring Bangladesh.

Since then, most have been housed in packed refugee camps on Bangladesh's coast.

As those camps have reached breaking point,

the country's government has decided to move many of them to a tiny island called Basan Chaw.

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