Category: PROPERTY

Stagnating growth and pressure from the Covid crisis on the economy mean Japan needs to push out some large-scale structural reforms fast — or risk a much bigger economic fallout. William Pesek ... ( read original story ...)

Musician, streetwear entrepreneur, potential 2024 US presidential candidate and self-professed “creative genius,” Kanye West has purchased a US$57.3 million (S$77.3 million)  house on California’s ... ( read original story ...)

More than 300 Japanese were dead or missing today after two typhoons within 24 hours hit central and western Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Is China the new Japan? The monumental debts of Evergrande, the Chinese real-estate developer, may signal the beginning of a slow property crash in China, which could engulf its ageing population much ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's major universities including those with close ties with China are moving to tighten background checks on foreign students seeking to study civil-military technologies, according to a Kyodo ... ( read original story ...)

A survey of 56 universities, some with close China ties, found many had increased checks. About 40 per cent of Japan’s foreign students are Chinese. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened sharply higher Friday, with the Nikkei index briefly climbing over 2 percent, tracking overnight gains on Wall Street as concerns receded over the potential collapse of Chinese ... ( read original story ...)

A new viral TikTok trend has students vandalalizing school property and posting video proof on the social media app. ( read original story ...)

Asian shares mostly declined Tuesday, with Tokyo down 2.2% as worries about heavily indebted Chinese real estate developers weighed on sentiment. On Monday, U.S. stocks logged their biggest drop since ... ( read original story ...)

The gains come after Evergrande, a Chinese property developer who's stock dropped over 20 percent in the last five days, promised to pay interest payments to the US on a $300 billion debt. ( read original story ...)

Foreign businesses in China are becoming key targets in a growing number of intellectual property lawsuits filed by Chinese companies. Enhanced IP legislation, which has led to high amounts of damages ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks fell Wednesday as caution prevailed before the outcome of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting, but the decline was limited with temporary relief provided by Chinese property ... ( read original story ...)

The 44-year-old mogul dropped a whopping $57.3million on a sprawling beachside home in Malibu in an off-market according to real estate transaction website Dirt. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Nikkei stock index ended sharply lower on Sept. 21 with its biggest one-day point decline in three months, in a global market rout on concerns that a potential default by a giant Chinese ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened sharply lower Tuesday, with the benchmark Nikkei sinking over 2 percent at the outset, as concerns over a potenti ... ( read original story ...)

South Korea has placed among the top five technological innovators for the first time, according to the latest global ranking, as other Asian economic powers moved up the hierarchy. South Korea jumped ... ( read original story ...)