麻豆社

Beth McLeod meets a formidable example of Vietnam's new breed of successful businesswomen; Leo Johnson descends into an artisanal gold mine beneath the Ecuadorian Andes; Dany Mitzman uncovers the story of the Calabrian mayoress who said 'basta' to the local mob - twice - but was eventually exhausted by red tape and government inertia; Natasha Breed muses on the quality of life for African animals kept in Europe's circuses, and Rajan Datar goes singing in the Caucasus mountains with a Georgian polyphonic choir.