BBC Series on outdoor markets around the world on the web
Submitted by sbalkin on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 12:18am.
March 2, 2009
BBC News has great series from differen types of outdoor style
marketplaces around the world. This is being broadcast in
segments on its BBC World News on TV and is available to see
on the Internet at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7907335.stm
The series is titled: “Fruits of Crisis” and also “Global Markets Feel the Downturn.”
Several of the markets report business is booming. Vendors comment
that customers are going back to the basics.
Video reports come from Beijing, Dubai, Lagos, London Mumbai, Buenos
Aires, Johannesburg; and audio-only reports are from a Moscow flea
market, Cairo camel market, Australian cattle market, and Addis Ababa grain market.
-- Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University, sbalkin-AT-roosevelt.edu