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...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 3. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Shenzhen-based Luxshare Precision Industry has won favour and increasing business with the iPhone maker in part by being prepared to test “crazy” ideas in its factories, according to an Apple supply chain...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 22. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Many were conjured from the sands by Dezer and his father, Michael. The one with the never-ending marble is the Dezers’ 56-storey Residences by Armani/Casa....
...Additional reporting by Lauly Li A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 26 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...This “deep field” image covers a patch of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground....
...McKinsey’s Bob Sternfels: ‘We’re OK if you don’t agree with us’ (FT) Prologis to buy Duke Realty in $26bn deal (WSJ) Gorman reassures on US economy as markets shudder (FT) BP sells stake in Canadian oil sands...
...I imagined it as a bright book, not because of its themes, which are often dark, but because the prose glimmered in its precision and lyricism....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 30 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...The project, which was not reported at the time, was led by a Foxconn group in charge of precision instruments....
...The 90-year-old investor has led a mostly hands-off approach to managing the dozens of companies Berkshire owns, which includes the insurer Geico, aerospace parts maker Precision Castparts and ice-cream...
...A horned cow, carved with ardent precision, on a giant molar of lonely rock. Who put it there? Why? The Ennedi is full of unGoogleable secrets, which is why it is my discovery of the year....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 9, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...The camp was struck with military precision not long after sunrise, tents loaded on to pick-up trucks, no footprint (or plastic bottle) left to show that we had been there....
...Established in 1945 with a cluster in central and southern Taiwan, about 2,000 companies making precision machinery and parts have supplied a range of industries that produce key components for military...
...Between 2005 and 2008, hedge funds and private equity groups invested an estimated $12bn in studio film slates, according to University of Southern California data....
...Today, the stretch of the Highway 1 corridor that runs round the peninsula’s southern tip can feel like one long misadventure in breezeblock and terracotta....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 31 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...While it's not possible to call an absolute bottom with precision, we think it's close on many metrics. [...]...
...A five-minute speedboat ride from Luzon, Grande Island is one of the closest white sand beach resorts to the Philippine capital of Manila....
...Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, argued recently that “all the stars seem aligned for Tight Oil Inc. to generate positive cash flow in 2018, two years earlier than we predicted”....
...It is also worrying investors who own shares in railroads that haul sand and in sand miners that may be on the cusp of a glut. Sand was a critical ingredient of the shale drilling revolution....
...“The greatest thing our art does, and our industry does, is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper,” he added....
...Intense heat conjures its saturated translucence, which might seem to belong to strong southern light....
...Last year Berkshire acquired Precision Castparts, a US engineering group, for $32bn in the largest acquisition his Nebraska-based holding company has yet made....
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