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September 27th, 2018

Can Nomura crack the Chinese market?

CEO Koji Nagai aims for global relevance

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The Big Story

Can Nomura crack the Chinese market?

Japanese investment house targets wealthy mainland investors

Can Nomura crack the Chinese market?
Nomura headquarters in Tokoy: The securities company is looking to China for growth outside of Japan. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
The Big Story

Koji Nagai puts sales at the heart of Nomura's China strategy

Group CEO takes the 'world's most powerful house' back to its roots

A sadhu, or Hindu holy man, in Allahabad, India, pays a merchant using Paytm. The mobile payments company has roughly 350 million users on its platform.
Startups in Asia

Buffett's Indian pick Paytm aims to build financial-services empire

Digital payments startup looks to profit by bringing small shopkeepers online

The port in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan
Companies

Taiwan quietly lets Chinese state company take over port area

Blocked in US by Trump, Cosco gains indirect control over Kaohsiung terminals

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, second from right, enjoys a lunch of cold noodles with South Korean business leaders and North Korean officials at a restaurant in Pyongyang on Wednesday. (Pyongyang Press Corps.)
Business trends

Samsung heir faces high price for cold noodles in Pyongyang

South Korean leader wants conglomerate to lead investments in the North

A liquified natural gas storage tank and workers are reflected in a puddle at PetroChina's receiving terminal at Rudong port in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China.
Trade war

Beijing mobilizes Chinese enterprises in trade war against US

Insiders see government hand behind Jack Ma's reversal on 1m job pledge

A tanker carrying American shale gas passes seals on a buoy at Grangemouth, Scotland. The U.S.-China trade conflict is rerouting trade patterns.
Trade war

US shale risks becoming next casualty in China trade spat

Beijing's LNG tariff to shift energy flows as buyers and sellers seek options

Mitsubishi Motors operates this plant in Thailand. Southeast Asia's auto production grew by a faster rate than China's in the first half of 2018. (Photo by Hiroshi Kotani)
Economy

Southeast Asia's production gains speed as China slows

Manufacturing index up 6.2% for first half as companies diversify bases

An iPS cell lab at Kyoto University. These type of stem cells can be generated from adult cells, which means they are not subject to the same ethical dilemmas that come with embryonic cells. (Photo by Wataru Ito)
Business trends

Japan hurries to regain lead in race for stem cell therapies

Australian startup closer to commercializing iPS-based treatment

Nostalgia for the golden years of radio: An early 2000s revival of the vacuum tube in a car stereo from Japan.
Foxconn Technology Group has pursued $10 billion worth of investment in the U.S. while taking affiliates public in mainland China. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
Companies

Foxconn unit's mainland China IPO highlights trade war strategy

Apple supplier Avary raises $540m as group woos both sides

CapitaLand currently owns or manages a global property portfolio worth over 93 billion Singapore dollars. 
Nikkei Markets

CapitaLand expands into US housing, Indonesia hotels

Deals aimed at balancing emerging, developed market exposure, says new chief

A Thai Airways Boeing 777 takes off from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport. Thailand's flag carrier has lost money for most of the past decade.
Companies

New Thai Airways chief vows to clear losses by 2022

Plans to buy 23 planes face review under sharper focus on costs

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Asia Insight

Australia looks for boost from Chinese trade war stimulus

After 27-year growth run, the economy is weaker than it seems

Malaysia's Former Prime Minister Najib Razak was arrested for the second time on Sept. 19. 
Malaysia in transition

Najib rearrest hastens meltdown of Malaysia's former ruling party

Ex-prime minister faces over 20 new 1MDB charges as one-time ministers quit

Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his challenger Prabowo Subianto (right) attend a ceremony marking the start of the campaigning period for next year's election in Jakarta on September 23.
Politics

Indonesia's Widodo has edge in bid for second presidential term

Incumbent has backing of business and media, but bribery scandal looms

Supporters of Maldivian President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih celebrate in Male on Sept. 24.
Belt and Road

Maldives election marks setback for China's Belt and Road

Beijing expected to move fast to court new India-leaning president

Richard Fisher: "The real concern of the U.S. is the cyberspace issue."
Economy

China's 5G a bigger threat than trade war, says ex-Dallas Fed chief

Former CEO Fisher claims US fears Chinese tech hegemony

Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang. 
Politics

Vietnamese President Quang, contender for top leader, dies at 61

Death seen concentrating power in hands of pro-China party chief Trong

Philippines, which receives billions of dollars in remittances from Filipinos working abroad, GNI per capita exceeded GDP per capita by 21.3% in 2016.
Datawatch

The Asian countries where GDP does not tell the full story

Gross national income reveals more accurate picture of region's productivity

Rodrigo Duterte's presidency has been even more brutal to the economy than to democracy.
Opinion

Duterte's nostalgia economics will end badly for Philippines

Manila needs a reformer, not an old-school strongman

Beijing can smooth the way for Belt and Road expansion by taking more care over existing global financial rules.
Opinion

China must be persuaded to keep BRI within international rules

Beijing's road back to global greatness goes via partnership not one-sided expansionism

An iconic survivor of a low-tech culture, Tsukiji finally lost to unrelenting pressure for redevelopment. (Photo by Kok Leong Tham)
Opinion

End of Tsukiji fish market, an insider's view

Tokyo is doing itself disservice by turning historic site into a parking lot

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the press in Tokyo  after being re-elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 20. (Reuters)
The Nikkei View

Abe, fulfill your obligations to future generations

Japanese leader must dedicate his third term to tackling social security and fiscal reform

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Life

Baseball fans of a wildly different stripe

Loud, proud and eccentric: The devotees of Osaka's Hanshin Tigers

Ayurveda shifts the emphasis away from diseased-based treatments like surgery and drugs by prescribing exercise and massage. (Photo by Four Seasons)
Tea Leaves

Road testing Ayurvedic medicine

India's ancient 'science of life' demands persistence as well as faith