Business trends
Japan carmakers angle for EV primacy in Southeast Asia
Thai incentives for local production draw in Toyota and Honda
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Real Estate
Property
Tokyo property prices near bubble-era levels
BOJ's easy monetary policy has channeled funding into real estate
Business trends
Chinese tech startups eye Japan's real estate and tourism sectors
Entrepreneurs develop savvy AI and VR apps for investors and foreign visitors
Companies
Japanese apartment builder logs $400m loss on code violations
Repair and tenant relocation costs erode Leopalace21's profits as vacancies rise
Economy
Vietnam vexes foreign automakers with import rules
Government steadfast in efforts to nurture domestic industry
Nikkei Markets
CapitaLand, seeking scale, buys real-estate group for $4.4bn
Deal will make it world's ninth-largest property fund manager
Business trends
From bikes to phones, 'Made in Vietnam' grows with foreign help
Companies tap new fields, but nation needs local suppliers to reach 2020 industrial goal
Nikkei Markets
CK Asset's hotel-to-housing project move seen lifting return
Hotel valuations lower than for homes or commercial projects, analyst says
Markets
Southeast Asian IPO proceeds fall by a third in 2018 amid trade war
Vietnam emerges as bright spot for listings, overtaking Thailand and Singapore
Business deals
Hong Kong's New World buys insurer FTLife for $2.7bn
Conglomerate diversifies with eye toward expanding into mainland China
