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Business Daily: Asian clean-tech

05/07/2011

Asian clean-tech

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Asian clean-tech

Why investors are piling into Asian clean technology. Plus, can Russians make cognac?

Why investors are piling into Asian clean technology. Is Asia leading the way for the rest of the world? Plus, the fine art of distilling Russian brandy - but is it cognac?

Is clean technology Asia's great new hope? Lesley Curwen talks to Vivek Tandon, the co-founder of Aloe Private Equity.  Johanna Klein, who invests in private equity funds for the Asian Development Bank describes how the whole sector has recently taken "a quantum leap".   

Plus, Rene Carayol explains 'Parkinson's Law', the BBC's Jamie Robertson samples the delights of the brandy business Russian-style, and we hear your best jokes about the financial crisis. 

Here's a taster - question: What do you call an investment banker ironing five business shirts on a Sunday evening? Answer: Overly optimistic.

Plus, can Russians make cognac?

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