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Business Matters: Uber Boss to Take Leave From Company

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14/06/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Uber Boss to Take Leave From Company

It comes after a review of practices at the firm, which is facing several scandals.

The announcement by Travis Kalanick came as the former US Attorney-General, Eric Holder, published the findings of his investigation into corporate ethics at Uber - a company that's been dogged by allegations about harassment and discrimination. So what do Uber's backers make of these developments? Freada Kapur Klein, a California-based venture capitalist and philanthropist, gives her view.

Police in rural Thailand recently raided a house and discovered 474 iPhones and 347,000 unused SIM cards, among other computer hardware. All this kit was dedicated to boosting the online profiles of web users in China by showering their pages with likes and positive comments. But why? Sasiwan Mokhasen, who broke the story for the Khaosod English news website in Bangkok, tells us.

Also on the programme, the Hong Kong government will introduce a bill to stop the ivory trade there by 2021. Hong Kong is one of the top transit centres for ivory on its way to China - a country that, along with the US, has already banned the trade. We hear why it matters from Park Manager Erik Mararv of Garamba National Park is in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The BBC's Fergus Nicoll is joined by Kimberly Adams of US radio station Marketplace from Washington DC and David Kuo of the Motley Fool website in Singapore.

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