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Share buybacks

Are board directors enriching themselves by buying back their company's shares? Plus,
what stops Chinese companies becoming global household names?

Are board directors enriching themselves by buying back their company's shares? Leading British investor Terry Smith argues that share buybacks may not after all increase shareholder value, if too high a price is paid.

Plus, Professor Nandani Lynton of the CEIBS business school in Shanghai explains what stops Chinese companies becoming global household names.

And the 大象传媒's Guy Delauney reports on Cambodia's new car industry, to replace its current fleet of clapped-out US car wrecks.

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18 minutes

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Tue 10 May 2011 07:32GMT

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  • Tue 10 May 2011 07:32GMT

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