US media reported on May 31 that on the evening of May 30 a United Airlines flight from New Jersey to Spain turned back mid‑flight after a passenger’s Bluetooth headset name contained a threatening phrase, triggering a security alert.

In a Qiushi article, Science Minister Yin Hejun urged deepening the role of enterprises as China’s primary agents of technological innovation and making firms the driving force behind future industry development. He said enterprises naturally connect science, market and industry and called for stronger enterprise-led industry–university–research integration, support for firms to form innovation consortia, and greater upstream–downstream industry‑chain integration. He asked authorities to cultivate and scale a cohort of technology-leading firms and to tier the development of companies that will underpin future industries. On finance, he urged accelerating a tech‑finance framework aligned with innovation, boosting financial support for tech SMEs, and encouraging long‑term capital to invest earlier, in smaller tickets, for longer durations and into hard tech.

With the KOSPI repeatedly hitting records, outstanding personal loans at South Korea's five largest banks rose to KRW106.99 tln as of last Thursday (≈$71.0bn), near the Nov 2023 peak of KRW107.72 tln. The increase is concentrated in drawn overdraft lines (locally called negative accounts); drawn balances for these facilities reached KRW41.93 tln, reflecting funds actually withdrawn rather than total available credit.