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  • 1 month ago | ft.com | Kenji Kawase |Zijing Wu |Michael Acton |Cheng Ting-Fang |Lauly Li |Kim Jaewon | +1 more

    Hello, this is Kenji, presenting this edition of the #techAsia newsletter from Tokyo.

  • 1 month ago | asia.nikkei.com | Kenji Kawase

    HONG KONG -- Native Parisian Benjamin Vuchot spent the last three decades working with French and Swiss luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and Cartier to court Asia's wealthy and those aspiring to join them. Now Vuchot, 53, has been called on by the Kadoorie family, among Hong Kong's most storied business dynasties, to lead their hotel business, operator of the stately Peninsula brand, out of a lingering post-COVID funk and the hangover from an unfortunately timed expansion drive.

  • 2 months ago | ft.com | Kenji Kawase |Cheng Ting-Fang |Lauly Li |Yifan Yu |David Keohane |Leo Lewis | +2 more

    Hello, this is Kenji. I ended my third stint in Hong Kong last week and returned to Nikkei’s Tokyo newsroom on Monday.

  • 2 months ago | note.com | Kenji Kawase

    Amazonのタイムセールの通知が届く。 スマイルセール、プライム感謝祭、ブラックフライデー。 その瞬間、僕はスマホを手に取り、無意識のまま画面をスワイプする。 「限定〇〇%オフ」の文字が踊る。 買うつもりはなかった。 でも気づけば、カートに3点入っていた。 ――これは、日常の一コマだ。 さほど珍しくもない、ありふれた話だ。 僕らは、“欲しい”が押し寄せる世界に生きている。 けれど、そんな日々のあとに訪れる感情は、奇妙なほど同じだ。 届いた段ボールを開けた瞬間に覚えるのは、 「どうしてこれを買ったんだっけ?」という、わずかな虚しさ。 「もう一点は、余計だったな」 期待した高揚はなく、あるのは脱力のような感覚。 それはまるで、回し車をひたすら走るハムスターのようだ。 目的地はない。ただ、走り続ける。 止まれば不安。だから走る。 何かを得るために回していたつもりが、 いつしか「回すこと自体」が目的になっている。 仏教では、これを「執着」と呼ぶ。 「もっと」「まだ足りない」「手に入れたい」 その尽きない欲望こそが、人間の苦しみの根源だという。...

  • Mar 17, 2025 | asia.nikkei.com | Kenji Kawase

    HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong-listed shares of Sinopec Engineering Group closed down 6.9% on Monday after plunging as much as 8.9% during the day, while its chairman offered a relatively candid take on how state policies can impact some of China's biggest companies. At the same time, the engineering arm of China Petrochemical Corp.

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Christopher DeWolf

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Shirley Lau

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