This was still going for decades. The value of those kinds of just throwaway transmissions lasted beyond the Second World War. Some of the scoops of the century came from it, so you got Kristev's Cuban crime down. And then also the proclamation of the fat wall against Salman Rushdie. But the Iran issue has pushed these issues into the background. Several European nations have already reacted strongly to the Ayatollah's threat.
Shifts in the garment industry, which powered development in the country, represent one risk; meagre currency reserves are another. Yet nothing so imperils Bangladesh’s economic miracle as graft and patronage at the highest levels. How does North Korea afford its flashy weapons programme? Crypto scams of eye-watering scope. And the newsmaking history of BBC Monitoring’s radio translators.
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