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Business Matters: Death toll rises in Ukraine 19 Feb 14

Wed, 19 Feb 14

We have the latest from Kiev where a tense stand-off continues between thousands of demonstrators and the riot police trying to evict them from Independence Square. Chinese soldiers are too fat for their tanks and too tall for their rifles. Ed Gribbin is President of Alvanon, which advises the clothing industry, and he's just been commissioned to look into the problem by the government in Beijing. Sean O'Neill's a travel writer with a terrific pedigree and he's been given exclusive access to the Marriott hotel chain's 'hotel design lab' - a three storey structure in which new hotel room designs are tested. Find out what he made of that enlightening experience. In Singapore, David Kuo of The Motley Fool talks expanding economies and expanding waistlines. In Washington, Brian Czech, President of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, talks alternative economic models and the perils of endless growth.