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World Service,27 Jun 2014,17 mins

Ukraine and EU Sign Historic Trade Pact

World Business Report

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Ukraine signs a partnership deal with the European Union. We speak to the Ukrainian government and ask whether the lives lost over Kiev's desire to pivot west rather than east, have been too high a price to pay. We explore what working lives are like for women in Japan and China: we speak to the president of telecoms firm BT Japan, Haruno Yoshidal. Our team in China goes speed dating and finds it's the young women's parents who do most of the matchmaking. Finally, a look back at the week's biggest business stories with Vaiju Naravane from the Hindu newspaper in Paris and Ben Casselman from the news website Five Thirty Eight in New York.

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