Nikkei reports Japan’s Green Transformation Acceleration Agency (GX) has committed JPY20 bln (~$125m) in public‑private funding to two startups—Kyoto Fusion Engineering and JEPLAN—focused on nuclear fusion and plastic recycling. The move is part of a broader government plan to mobilize JPY370 tln (over $2.3 tln) of public and private capital across 17 strategic sectors by fiscal 2040 under Prime Minister Takaichi’s growth and decarbonization agenda. Details of the two investments are expected so

据华盛顿邮报：美国国防部伤亡统计系统的数据显示，美军在伊朗战争中的伤亡已升至774人，其中18人死亡，756人受伤。

On the sixth anniversary of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s ChiNext registration-based IPO reform, Shenzhen remains the largest source of ChiNext listings. As of Aug 23 there were 166 ChiNext-listed companies headquartered in Shenzhen, versus 130 in Beijing, 81 in Shanghai and 47 in Guangzhou. Six Shenzhen ChiNext firms have market capitalizations above CNY100 billion, including Mindray Medical and Inovance Technology. Shenzhen is accelerating development of an internationally influential industrial tech innovation hub; experts say leveraging capital-market financing and deepening ChiNext reform could foster more emerging- and future-industry innovators and support higher-quality economic growth.