27/05/2010

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Personal stories behind the news from all over the world. With Matthew Bannister. Cambodian MP Mu Sochua; Mobile news in India and Italian single mums. Mu Sochua - Cambodian MP facing jail One of Cambodia's leading opposition politicians could face prison next week after an acrimonious legal battle with the Prime Minister. Mu Sochua fled Cambodia in 1972 but returned from the USA in 1989. She's campaigned since for women's rights. Sochua talks to Matthew Bannister about her life and the court case. Mobile News in India The poorest people in India are often cut off from local news and information. But now CG Net has been set up to take news and information to villagers through their mobile phones. The BBC's Geeta Pandey has been to Chhattisgarh to see a CG Net reporter at work. Italian Single Mums Across the industrialised world, nearly sixteen per cent of children live in single-parent households. Recently we went to Latvia which has the highest percentage of single parents in Europe. Today we travel to Italy where Dany Mitzman's been talking to two single mothers with very different experiences of living in a traditional Catholic Country.