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Daily analysis of the major talking points in the worlds of business and investing with a focus on implications for doing both in mainland China and its key financing hub - Hong Kong.
Office towers on Hong Kong Island are seen across the water at sunset on November 15. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong property

The View | Rebound in Hong Kong’s Central office market could be turning point

At a time when uneven K-shaped recoveries are increasingly prevalent, Hong Kong’s office sector is experiencing its own unbalanced rebound.

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Asia housing and property

The View | Asia’s housing affordability squeeze shows no signs of slowing

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China property

The View | Why China Vanke’s debt woes have barely made a ripple in markets

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Japan

The View | Takaichi’s nationalism and fiscal stimulus test Japan’s property market

Despite market pressures, cost-of-living concerns and the diplomatic row with China, other factors have a strong bearing on the nation’s real estate.

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Chinese tourists wheel suitcases through the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on November 19. China’s Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Japan have advised Chinese citizens against future travel to Japan following recent remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi concerning Taiwan. Photo: EPA
Asia housing and property

The View | An AI-fuelled data centre bubble in the making? Not in Asia

Asia provides strong reassurance that the AI boom is not the only factor driving development and investment in data centres.

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Vietnam

The View | Why Vietnam’s property sector has weathered Trump’s tariff typhoon well

Trump’s tariff blitz has not just provided an impetus for reforms, it has helped address misconceptions about Vietnam’s manufacturing sector.

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US-China relations

The View | Can Scott Bessent see China’s trade counterstrike with clear eyes?

China’s export control regime on rare earths isn’t retaliation for recent US restrictions – it’s a response to overall US policy.

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives for trade talks with Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng in Madrid, Spain on September 14. Photo: AFP
Asia housing and property

The View | Why Thai property investors can find reason for cheer in dismal 2025

Even with the economy hit by multiple crises this year, not least a plunge in Chinese tourist numbers, it’s not all doom in the hotel and office sectors.

Japan

The View | Why Japan’s hotel operators have nothing to fear from tourism backlash

Political turmoil, a cost-of-living crisis and ire towards tourists are unlikely to keep Japan from being a top-performing hotel market.

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Asia housing and property

The View | Critics of Singapore’s property cooling measures miss bigger picture

The housing market will keep testing the government’s tolerance, but without interventions, things would be a lot more volatile.

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A view of a residential building in Singapore’s Chinatown with Housing and Development Board flats. Photo: Getty Images
United States

The View | How will Trump revive US shipbuilding after years of protectionist rot?

Industrial policy, alongside tech and steel support, made shipbuilding in Japan, South Korea and China competitive. Can the US do it too?

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Workers building a vessel at a shipyard in Yizheng in Jiangsu province, China, on August 25. China made a big push in shipbuilding at the turn of the century. Today it’s the undisputed leader in ship production, with its shipyards receiving the lion’s share of new orders. Photo: CNS Photo via Reuters
Disney

Jimmy Kimmel will return to ABC network on Tuesday, Disney says

The TV host’s talk show was suspended six days ago after he made remarks about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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Hong Kong property

The View | Why Hong Kong’s commercial property market could do with some stress

Not only can the resulting adjustments help unlock investments, but a sterner stress test is likely to accentuate the resilience of Hong Kong’s banking system.

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Asia housing and property

The View | Asian governments may have a housing affordability crisis on their hands

From Singapore to Seoul, piecemeal efforts to expand affordability have only limited options for policymakers as housing prices rise.

People look at Singapore’s skyline shrouded under rain clouds on September 11. Photo: AFP
India

The View | Together, China and India can be a tech innovation force

India has shot up in innovation rankings with venture capital as a new metric. More could be achieved if India and China joined forces.

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The innovation lab inside the premises of India’s information technology company Wipro in Bengaluru, India, on August 13. India now has four innovation clusters, including Bengaluru, in the top 100 of the WIPO list. Photo: Reuters
Asia housing and property

The View | Resilient Asia shines as global office market sees signs of recovery

London’s Canary Wharf district is staging a recovery and the US office market has averted a crisis, but Asia remains a source of strength.

Asia housing and property

The View | Why South Korea and Japan are turning against foreign homebuyers

South Koreans and Japanese are understandably irked by the ease with which foreigners can acquire real estate when locals are struggling.

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China-India relations

The View | India still needs China to catch up with Chinese manufacturing

Rather than limit Chinese investment and reduce reliance on China, India should leverage Chinese know-how to become more competitive.

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A garment worker uses a sewing machine at an apparel manufacturing unit in Bengaluru on August 25. Photo: AFP
Asia housing and property

The View | Sell India, buy China? Don’t get stock and property markets confused

The stock market is not the economy, and India’s property market fundamentals remain strong despite investors’ turn to Chinese stocks.

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Hong Kong property

The View | How closer mainland integration is lifting Hong Kong’s residential market

While the benefits are being felt in the housing sector, commercial property continues to suffer from much weaker fundamentals.

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China property

The View | China’s commercial property market has its own version of a ‘national team’

While Beijing hasn’t called on any funds to support China’s commercial property market, its strong, diverse domestic investor base is a pillar of strength.

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Pedestrians pass through a business district in Jiaxing, in east China’s Zhejiang province, on August 7. Photo: Xinhua
Asia housing and property

The View | Why Osaka, Bengaluru and Johor are overlooked drivers of Asia property

To spot the big themes and trends in Asian property, look beyond the most widely traded cities and see the market’s true breadth and depth.

Tourists walk past shops and restaurants in the popular Shinsekai district of Osaka, with the Tsutenkaku Tower looming behind, on February 24. Photo: AFP
Japan

The View | Inflation, political turmoil won’t put investors off Japanese property

Rising prices and anti-establishment populism are not enough to undermine the factors underpinning the strength of Japan’s property market.

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Asia housing and property

The View | What does Trump’s transshipment crackdown mean for Asian industrial property?

Asian industrial real estate could be affected by US efforts to marginalise China but is also part of the solution to diversifying supply chains.

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China economy

The View | Why China’s domestic hotels have an edge over Western competitors

Chinese hoteliers are better placed to cope with economic headwinds thanks to wide networks, efficiency and strength in the midscale market.

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People scroll through their phones while sitting in front of a hotel in Beijing on July 13. Photo: AP
Hong Kong property

The View | Hong Kong property market’s sources of resilience finally getting noticed

The city’s property market will struggle to rise out of its hole, but there is a greater appreciation that it is not all doom and gloom.

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In Hong Kong’s housing market, secondary prices have been relatively stable since last September, which suggests a bottom has been reached. Photo: Shutterstock
Asia housing and property

The View | Don’t overhype the diverging fortunes of Chinese and Indian real estate

India’s property sector is booming, but China’s plays a more important role in Asia and is supported by better fundamentals.

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China property

The View | Why China’s ailing housing sector is the crisis investors forgot

Investors might look past the crisis as a long-term structural issue, but homebuyers, developers and lenders in China feel the pain every day.

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