Bee Lin is the Associate Director of Communications and Content (Asia Pacific) at Jones Lang LaSalle Property Consultants in Singapore. She was a former editor with Bloomberg News in Hong Kong and spent 10 years as a correspondent with Reuters in Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Melbourne, specialising in Asian equity and commodity markets. Prior to her career as a journalist started, she worked with the Japanese business advisory unit with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Singapore. She is currently a Contributing Editor for Investment and Pensions Europe and has written for the Financial Times and the Nikkei Asian Review amongst others.
When Jakarta was named as the city with the worst traffic in the world earlier this year by Castrol, it came as no surprise to the millions of commuters who spend hours on its roads every day.
In the last four decades, the country has gone from Asian backwater to investment hotspot.
Despite political differences between Taiwan and mainland China, improvements in bilateral trade are spurring the territory’s real estate market growth.