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Asia Pacific’s logistics sector is heating up as two of the world’s biggest online retailers, Amazon and Alibaba, expand in the region. China’s Alibaba Group Holdings said in March that it would set up a logistics hub in Malaysia; in the same month Amazon is reportedly looking for distribution sites in Australia. And JLL experts say that lease terms for industrial assets are becoming shorter in some Asia Pacific markets, while differing amounts of supply across markets is also causing investors to rethink their capital strategy. According to Pelham Higgins, Director of Industrial Capital Markets for Japan and South Korea...

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