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World Business Report: Greece in talks for more bailout cash

13/03/2013

Greece in talks for more bailout cash

BBC World Service - World Business Report, Greece in talks for more bailout cash

Greece is asking for billions more in bailout loans today. We ask if lenders will agree.

Greece is asking for billions more in bailout loans today. We ask if lenders will agree. Plus is it the end of cheap China? As wages rise what will that mean for global trade?

The Greek government is going eyeball to eyeball with its international lenders today. Athens needs billions more in bailout loans, but argues it can't take any more austerity. We ask how those lenders should respond. 

Plus - is it the end of cheap China? As wages rise in the workshop of the world what will that mean for global trade?

We have a special report from Bangladesh after a recent fire at a Bangladeshi clothing factory raised questions about safety standards there. 

We hear from the Bangkok where the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species is being held and ask could the development of agarwood plantations help protect the species in the wild? 

And we go to the Atacama Desert in Chile where the world's largest, most powerful and most expensive ground-based telescope has just been inaugurated.

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