SEOUL – South Korea’s major exporters of cars and smartphones are bringing home a bigger chunk of their earnings this year to enjoy new tax breaks, and their “reshoring” has become one rare source of support for a depreciating currency. South Korean companies repatriated a record US$33.13 billion (S$45.3 billion) of overseas earnings during the […]

By MaCauley Studdard In the last two-plus years, rent growth and net absorption have both reached new heights, fueled by record levels of demand as a result of surging e-commerce sales. While e-commerce sales growth and the ongoing operational trend of maintaining higher inventory volumes has provided a tailwind to industrial fundamentals, there is also […]

In recent years, tech supply chains around the world have been hit with unprecedented disruption: from lockdowns, congested ports and the Ukraine war, to sustainability goals, flexibility requirements and mitigating risks. These have led to a major move to rebalance and restrategise supply chains to bring them closer to home. To understand the why, what […]

New proposed restrictions could limit access to, and significantly increase the cost of, essential products, harming the U.S. economy, jeopardizing American competitiveness in the global market, and delaying progress for industries and sectors with urgent and growing needs. Some of these proposed restrictions aim to outright ban certain chemistries or regulate them at such low […]