28/05/2014 World Business Report

Korean city of Janseong has killed at least twenty elderly patients and

a nurse. Many others are injured with some said to be in a critical

condition. Those are the latest headlines from BBC News.

Now for the latest financial news with Maryam Moshiri and World

Business Report. Google is to start building its own

self driving cars with buttons but no controls on the steering wheels

or petals. We take a closer look. GlaxoSmithKline reveals that the

Serious Fraud Office in London has started a kernel investigation into

its commercial practices. Welcome to World Business Report.

In a minute how the world's biggest coffee producing country has been

hit by a drought and how it might impact your morning cuppa.

Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal criminal

investigation into one it is something Google wants to turn

into reality. The search engine plans to build its own self driving

cars. Google 's car is small, it is a two

seater and it is deliberately what the company calls cute looking. That

is to make it acceptable in urban environments. Perhaps even

approachable, definitely not threatening. The company will build

a hundred of them and test them in the town around it Silicon Valley

headquarters. They say the idea is to use this as a test for autonomous

technology, to help development in the adoption of that technology. In

the hope that drivers can one day make the road safer by eliminating

the crash is that are caused by human error. And hoping that people

`` helping people with limited mobility. Let's move on because here

in London, the Serious Fraud Office has launched an investigation into

one of the UK's largest companies. GlaxoSmithKline. The company is

already facing allegations of library in several companies,

including China. The investigator largest and most

complicated allegations of fraud and corruption. Lacks a SmithKline said

it would cooperate fully with investigations and that it is

committed to operating is business to the high standards. It is thought

that the SFO is investigating where GlaxoSmithKline failed to

investigate bribery. The Serious Fraud Office has released no further

details about the investigation except to say that it welcomes

approaches from whistleblowers on all its cases, including this one.

Earlier this month, the police in China formed a former boss of Glaxo

's decline and other colleagues of corruption. Since then, allegations

have surfaced in other countries. The company has said they are

investigating claims that bribes were paid to doctors in Poland,

Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Thailands factory output dropped for

a 13th straight month in April.This appears to underscoring the damage

political unrest has caused and the tough job the new military

government faces reviving an economy that shrank in the first quarter.

Sharanjit Leyl is in Singapore. Factory output is down again? Are no

figures have come out. That is right. Factory output came out

earlier but will be just what were those trade numbers. They came out

minutes ago and according to Reuters, exports fell .9% from last

year and it is against expectations they would rise about a percent.

Import humbling as well. They were down early 15% from last year in the

April trade as it has come in one half billion dollars. We also saw

that fall in factory output. All of this is showing the extent of damage

or the political unrest in Thailand has caused the economy. Leaving the

new government with this terrible task, trying to revive the economy,

we already saw each week in the first half. We thought industrial

output coming in at about 3.9% lower than one year earlier. That is

according to those numbers put out by the industry Ministry earlier. We

know all about the headlines, the army seething control of the country

on May 22. They say they aim to restore order after nearly seven

months of anti`government protest. Those ongoing protest have hurt

confidence, domestic demand, tourism, which is a key factor for

Thailand. It has a 10% of GDP. It has also delayed public works. All

about as the economy to contract over 2% in the first quarter. The

huge amount of worried there about how the country will get back on

track. Thank you. Well a night time curfew imposed by the military in

Thailand following last weeks coup has now been relaxed. It was one of

the key measures keeping people off the streets of Bangkok from 10pm to

five in the morning. Now it will run for just four hours starting at

midnight. Jonah Fisher has been on the streets finding out how it?s

been affecting trade and tourism in the city.

Here to Thailand every year and many of them are attracted by tonight

live, particularly in Bangkok. With the coup taking place here last

week, I have come to one of the busiest area to see it is pot of

people from coming here and also to find out how it has affected local

people whose livelihood depends on tourist. TRANSLATION: Usually I sell

a lot that at the moment, I hardly sell anything. There are much fewer

customers. You can see there are still some people walking past year

but they do not buy. Who do you blame, the army or the predators?

TRANSLATION: I do not think it is the army 's fault. It started before

the coup. I think the military had to do this because otherwise, there

would be more violence. As the coup made you rethink your holiday? Not

at all. The only difference I have seen is the flow of people, less

people. I do not see any activity of anything else. Is ten o'clock and

the police have shown up because that is still the curfew time here

and he is telling them all to go home. The curfew has been enforced

quite flexibly shall we say. Take this bar for example. It is passed

in o'clock if you have a look through here, they don't want us to

look through here. There are people in their drinking still. Your

families back home panicking as yellow no. No! Are you having a good

time? Americans, in which not so much. The you should be that much of

a problem in future, they have just produced it to four hours from

midnight to 4am. The tourist in Thailand have always proved

remarkably resilient in the past. In this period of army rule, bring

stability and not violence. It is likely the number of people coming

here will remain high. A drought in Brazil has hit its

coffee`growing region hard in recent months, pushing prices up and

ruining crops in the world's biggest coffee producing country ` so what

does it mean for farmers there ` and for the price of your cappuccino?

Katy Watson now reports from Brazil. It is harvest time in Brazil from

now until September these copy piggies will spend their days in the

field, adding up their bounty. The bounty is not as fruitful as recent

years, a drought during the rainy season has had an effect on the

crops. TRANSLATION: There wasn't enough water to keep the plant

healthy that is this farmer. It has led to the loss of fruit and there

is no way back. It is all shrivelled and dry. It's not just a problem of

damage beans, this year 's drought has had a financial impact as well.

Brazil account for a third of the world copy production and these

fields are full of copy beans. The price of which has doubled since

late last year. While the focus is on this year 's harvest, there are

concerns about next year 's as well. Lack of water has stunted the growth

of younger bushes. Farmers are worried that could mean smaller and

fewer beans when it comes to harvesting of next year. Despite

higher prices, there is still a supply problem. Producers have been

selling their stocks from previous years to keep prices stable. Many

big copy buys have locked in lower prices. This exporter said it would

last. You protect yourself for a few months. Several roasters bought

their needs back sometime ago. But now the future is not the same. It's

unavoidable that you are going to pay more for your coffee in the few

coming months. That is unavoidable. For now, the parity is to get the

beams that have survived the drought to market. The price of a cappuccino

is not on producers minds. That is the latest from World

Business Report. Thanks for watching. Do stay with us on BBC

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