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...John Fossey, head of container equipment and leasing research at Drewry, said demand would most likely flow to Vietnam. Like China, the south-east Asian economy is a low-cost manufacturing hub....
...“There are some signs of overheating in the Kosdaq market in terms of highly extended valuation, deteriorating earnings outlook, market concentration and leveraged activities by retail investors,” John Kwon...
...White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby also expressed concerns about “any burgeoning defence relationship” between North Korea and Russia....
...Four dancers wearing stunning scarlet costumes by Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung — a clever cross between a surplice and a unitard — ripple through Tanowitz’s measures with deadpan wit....
...Additional reporting by Song Jung-a in Seoul and Gloria Li in Hong Kong...
...John Mack, another former Credit Suisse chief executive who went on to run Morgan Stanley, has a blunter assessment of the reasons for its fall: “Their performance says it all.”...
...When the South Korean political activist Kim Dae-jung was jailed for two years in the early 1980s, he powered his way through some 600 books in his prison cell, such was his thirst for knowledge....
...I would also love to collect Jasper Johns – particularly his American-flag paintings. I am the most patriotic person you’ll ever meet....
...But now Kwak Noh-Jung, chief executive of SK Hynix, which has pioneered the development of so-called high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI servers, is striking a more optimistic note....
...“From the White House’s point of view, these executive orders are very China-focused,” said John Murphy, chief policy officer at Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a lobby group representing biotech...
...Additional reporting by Song Jung-a in Seoul...
...Martens and Crocs raises doubts over whether any brand is immune to fashion trends, the FT’s John Gapper notes....
...I also give out copies of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing like the Bible. There’s a brilliant chapter about being naked and the nude....
...“It is not just the UK struggling with investment, it is the whole world,” said Lucy Jung, founder of Cambridge-based start-up Charco Neurotech, who is currently fundraising....
...John Rim, the company’s chief executive, told the Financial Times that the company seeks to build overseas plants to be closer to its main customers and meet surging demand for contract manufacturing....
...Private markets adviser Hamilton Lane has appointed Victor Jung, formerly a senior adviser at Partners Group, to the newly created role of head of digital assets....
...Some 270,000 Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen and Uzbeks were slaughtered in an episode that was brilliantly described in a 1954 book by Edward Dennis Sokol (well done, Johns Hopkins University Press, for...
...Additional reporting by Maiqi Ding in Beijing, Christian Davies and Song Jung-a in Seoul and Kana Inagaki in Tokyo Follow Kathrin Hille and Demetri Sevastopulo on Twitter...
...At Sarah Myerscough Gallery, the three-legged, scorch-oak “Trine Cloud” chairs by British designer John Makepeace are as much sculpture as something to sit on....
...Additional reporting from Song Jung-a and Kang Buseong in Seoul...
Funds raised concerns Posco’s military ties undermined responsible investing commitments
...(This combination also afforded Thurman a self-referential moment when, while presenting the award for Best Actor with her Pulp Fiction co-stars Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta, she and Travolta briefly...
...Samsung Electronics predicted stronger global demand for tech devices this year after posting its highest fourth-quarter operating profit in four years but still disappointing analysts, Song Jung-a reports...
...Additional reporting by Edward White and Song Jung-a in Seoul...
...John Delury, an Asia expert at Yonsei University, does not believe there will be a “radical turn” if rightwing parties return to power next year because most South Koreans support forging closer ties with...
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