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World Service,24 Mar 2017,49 mins

First Daughters Club?

The Fifth Floor

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Ivanka Trump has been given her own office in the White House. Her exact role isn't yet clear, but she's not alone in the First Daughters' club, as Valeria Perasso and Umber Khairi of BBC Urdu explain. Thai Street Food Street food is part of the fabric of Bangkok life, but now under threat from an official cleanup. BBC Thai's Sucheera Maguire tells us what will be lost. Phone Romeos India's lively mobile phone market has led to more men dialling random numbers until they find a girl. Harassment, or a Bollywood inspired attempt to find romance? Haritha Kandpal and Sumiran Preet Kaur from BBC Hindi consider the issue. Escape from Raqqa Indonesian domestic worker, Sri Rahayu, found herself trapped in Raqqa when the so called Islamic State took control. It was a shocking experience, and told her story to BBC Indonesia's Sri Lestari. The pursuit of happiness in the CAR A United Nations agency report this week into happiness put the Central African Republic at the bottom. But is it really so bad to live there? We asked BBC Afrique's Mamadou Moussa Ba. Plus Fifi Haroon and her pick of the world wide web. Image: Influential First Daughters Credit: Getty, Reuters, BBC and Presidency of Tajikistan

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