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They sell electronics there. Mobiles, TV sets, DVD players, computers. All in decidedly low tech surroundings. Narrow dark alleys, dusty peeling shop signs. All that sprinkled with foodstalls so tinythat its customers have nowhere to sit and stand around, plate in one hand, fork in the other. Next to latest models of plasma TVs old black-and-white sets are being assembled from few even older ones, shiny stores selling brand new HP printers next to ones that sell second hand keyboards from times when the Windows key did not exist.

Pirated movies everywhere. In an unused part of one of the buildings, at the end of a dark corridor two guys in a even darker room are burning them. You cannot see the walls, every last bit of space is taken by humming computers, eight DVD burners in each one. Smell of hot silicon. Photography strictly prohibited.

Peace: I was invited to an office of a market general manager. He wanted his photo taken. How's that ;)

Few pictures