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Toshiba: On The Brink of Collapse?

Is the Japanese electronics giant Toshiba on the brink of collapse? The company says it made a loss of $4.8 billion in the last nine months of 2016.

Is the Japanese electronics giant Toshiba on the brink of collapse? The company says it made a loss of $4.8 billion in the last nine months of 2016. To complicate things further, these latest financial results have already been delayed twice - risking Toshiba being de-listed from the Stock Exchange. We find out more from Peter Landers, the Tokyo bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

United Airlines has received a global backlash on social media after videos emerged of a passenger being dragged from one of its planes because the airline had overbooked the flight. The bloodied man was forced off the plane at the airline's order and the chief executive Oscar Munoz's response - which seemed to blame the passenger - only deepened the problem. We speak to Rita Clifton, a branding expert, about the damage to the company's reputation.

Morocco used to be a country of transit for migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. But now many of those migrants are shunning their original intention of eventually settling in Europe - and are making lives in Morocco instead, as the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Guy Hedgecoe reports.

And finally, talks which could result in the creation of the world's biggest bicycle company are happening in the Netherlands. Rob Spedding from Cycling Plus magazine tells us more about a proposed merger between Pon Holding and Accell Group.

(Image: Toshiba President Satoshi Tsunakawa speaks during a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on April 11, 2017. Credit: Kazuhiro Nogi/ AFP / Getty Images)

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