Foreign investors were net sellers of Japanese government bonds by 1.25 tln yen in the week to Aug. 14; the prior week's net sale was revised from 58.7 bln yen to 56.7 bln yen.

Poland plans to reform personal income tax, aiming to benefit about 3.5 mln taxpayers, Prime Minister Tusk said. He said the Polish middle class is currently affected by the top marginal tax bracket.

China's National Healthcare Security Administration, in its interpretation of the national health security 15th Five-Year plan, said it will carry forward several existing indicators into the 15th Five-Year development targets — basic medical insurance participation rate; fund payment ratio for inpatient expenses within the basic medical insurance catalogue; and share of drugs and high‑value medical consumables procured by public medical institutions via provincial platforms — to ensure continuity of implementation. It said, given reform tasks and fund sustainability requirements, it will also include the number of jurisdictions covered by long‑term care insurance pooling and the number of months of cumulative reserves payable by employee and resident basic medical insurance funds as development indicators.