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	Podcast:		Business Matters
	Episode:		Huawei accuses the US of bullying
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:52:02
	Publish Date:		2019-05-21 20:16:00
	Description:		Last week the US added Huawei to a list of companies that American firms cannot trade with unless they have a licence. Tech analyst Larry Magid talks about the dangerous of separate "technological eco-systems." In just a few days, we’ll find out who will take over India’s new parliament. Roughly 900 million eligible voters have cast their ballots, some of them from its vast diaspora community. It’s an influential group who has the highest rate of remittance in the world -- injecting almost $80 billion back into its economy. But without a proxy voting system in place, they had to return to their home states to fulfil their civic duties. BBC's Monica Miller reports. Japan’s foreign minister has said the country will start insisting that non-Japanese speakers follow their custom in naming, ie: family name first, as is common in China. Social isolation is a growing problem in our tech-heavy world. And some politicians are beginning to try to find ways to tackle it, especially amongst older people who are not comfortable with dealing with machines as opposed to humans. We hear more from Kim Samuel of the Samuel Centre For Social Connectedness and Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University in Canada. Presenter Roger Hearing is joined throughout the programme by Diane Brady and Simon Littlewood
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