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Palu: Reporting The Earthquake

Inside Palu after the quake; Pakistan’s banyan tree; is spy-craft over in Russia; Morocco’s anti-harassment law; My Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Town Kolkata; Vietnam’s moon bears. With David Amanor.

Two weeks ago an earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. More than two thousand people died in the disaster, though the final figure may be much higher. Oki Budhi was in the first Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Indonesian team to reach the city of Palu where the tsunami struck.

Under the banyan tree
In Pakistan's Punjab Province stands a banyan tree believed to be hundreds of years old. Locals say it was planted by a Sufi saint, and local people revere it. Asif Farooqi of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Urdu knows the tree well.

The decline of Russian spying
The two Russian spies, or tourists, connected to the Salisbury poisoning have now been unmasked using little more than open source websites. So is the golden age of Russian spycraft over? Famil Ismailov and Andrei Soshnikov of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Russian share insights.

Morocco's harassment law
Morocco recently introduced a law banning the harassment of women. Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Arabic’s Mouna Ba grew up in Morocco, and has been gauging reaction, and sharing her own experiences.

My home town: Kolkata
Manoshi Barua of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Bengali takes us back to schooldays in Kolkata.

Saving the moon bears
Bear bile is a traditional remedy in Vietnam, obtained from moon bears kept in small cages. The practice is now illegal, and remaining captive bears are being moved to rescue centres. Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Vietnamese reporter Hoang Nguyen visited one.

Image: Cars, trees, and collapsed houses in Palu, Indonesia
Credit: Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Oki Budhi

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