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Business Matters: How China's Slow Growth Effects The World 22 Nov 14 Sat, 22 Nov 14 We'll take the temperature of China's economy as the country acts to boost slowing growth, and how it effects the rest of the world. Also, we analyse why the controv
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Biz Matters: Have we reached 'Peak App'? 24 Nov 14 Tue, 25 Nov 14 The British government is tightening the law around handing over payments from hostage insurance polices after estimates show that Islamic State received millions of dollars in the pas
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Biz Matters: Is Facebook a haven for terrorists? 26 Nov 14 Wed, 26 Nov 14 An inquiry into the murder of a British soldier, Lee Rigby, by Islamists in London last year, says an American internet firm had information that could have prevented the attac
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Biz Matters: Hope for an Ebola vaccine, 27 Nov 14 Thu, 27 Nov 14 Diana Furchtgott-Roth from the Manhattan Institute and Jonathan Cheng from the Wall Street Journal in Singapore discuss the day's stories with Fergus Nicoll. We hear news that human tri
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Business Matters: OPEC piles pain on Venezuela 28 Nov 14 Fri, 28 Nov 14 OPEC's refusal to cut oil production, sending prices even lower, heaps more economic pain on one of its members - Venezuela. The country is heavily dependant on oil to balance it
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Business Matters: Black Friday fever 29 Nov 14 Sat, 29 Nov 14 Violence breaks out in the US and UK and websites struggle to cope as Black Friday fever grips shoppers. We ask a behavioural psychologist exactly what prompts us to act in this way. Meanw
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BusinessMatters: Shale Gas Debt Warning 02 Dec 14 Tue, 2 Dec 14 Tracy Alloway from the Financial Times in New York tells us why the falling oil price is making some people concerned about debts held by the US shale industry. Sony Pictures find itself
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Business Matters: Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat to Humans? 3 Dec 14 Wed, 3 Dec 14 Professor Stephen Hawking has a stark warning about the development of artificial intelligence: that it may surpass humans. But we speak to Ben Way, who works to
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Business Matters: UK Announces Tax Evasion Crackdown 4 Dec 14 Thu, 4 Dec 14 The UK government says it is going after the big multinational corporations who don't pay their taxes - but how can they succeed? Also, Cider goes upmarket - we ask if it can
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Business Matters: Putin Warns of Hard Times Ahead 5 Dec 14 Fri, 5 Dec 14 Russia's leader president Putin says Western sanctions are the main reason his country is facing recession. We ask if people believe him. We have a report from India about a 200
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Business Matters: Russia acting like 'terrorist state' 6 Dec 14 Sat, 6 Dec 14 The president of Lithuania says Russia is acting like a terrorist state - we speak to President Dalia Grybauskaite to ask her why she thinks so. As wages remain low in the
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Business Matters: Prince William Speaks out on the Illegal Wildlife Trade Tue, 9 Dec 14 As Prince William calls for a renewed global effort to tackle the global illegal wildlife trade, we speak to the WildAid campaign group about changing attitudes t
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Business Matters: The 'Business Ethics' of Working for the CIA 10 Dec 14 Wed, 10 Dec 14 US senators allege that the CIA tortured its detainees after 9/11, but they outsourced the advice on the techniques to a private company - how does that fit with
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Business Matters: Anger in US over funding bill 11 Dec 14 Thu, 11 Dec 14 There is anger in the US as new rules designed to reduce risky trading by banks are watered down. We're also live in Hong Kong as police prepare to tear down a camp at the centr
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Business Matters: Financing Jihadism 12 Dec 14 Fri, 12 Dec 14 On Business Matters today we count the cost of jihadist violence and hear about the increasingly sophisticated ways groups like Islamic State and Boko Haram raise money. Russia's central b
