Japan construction orders YoY (Aug) -3.6%; prior -13.4%.

Siemens CFO says economic conditions have slightly improved.

China's State Council has approved in principle an Implementation Plan to expand and upgrade medical rehabilitation and nursing services. The plan prioritizes capacity expansion, quality improvement, regional balance and continuity, with emphasis on boosting grassroots-level supply of rehabilitation and nursing resources. It frames the measures under a health-first development strategy and the national strategy to actively address population aging, aiming to raise service capability and accelerate construction of a functionally complete, vertically linked, integrated traditional and Western medicine, efficient and accessible rehabilitation and nursing service system to meet whole-population, full-spectrum, life-cycle health needs.