Hong Kong close: HSI +0.07%, Hang Seng TECH Index -0.33%. Precious metals sector led gains; China Silver Group (00815.HK) and Zhufeng Gold (01815.HK) advanced over 7%.

IIR said as of Aug 19 Kuwait Oil Company had restarted parts of the Al Zour refinery; the facility's crude processing capacity is 615,000 bpd.

Jiangsu’s draft 15th Five-Year development plan for broadcasting and online audiovisual services proposes a new broadcasting-network construction project to upgrade infrastructure and industry capabilities. The draft calls for optimization and coordinated upgrades of cable, wireless, satellite and 5G networks, upgrades to wireless transmission and live-broadcast satellite management systems with access to the national unified network, and an adjustment of medium-wave transmission layout. It promotes compute–network integration and proposes a provincial cultural computing centre, explicitly supporting the provincial broadcaster and Jiangsu Cable to jointly build cloud–network–edge collaborative, multi-architecture compatible integrated digital-intelligence compute centres to optimize computing infrastructure for broadcasting and government service demand. The draft also supports the National Cultural Big Data East China regional centre in building a trusted data-space technology base to provide trusted data-space services for cultural institutions.