China Index Academy reports TOP100 Chinese developers sold CNY1.2293 trillion in Jan–May 2026, with the YoY decline narrowing 4.7 percentage points versus Jan–Apr and contracting for a third consecutive month. In May, China Overseas, CHINA RES LAND, China Merchants Shekou, C&D Real Estate, Poly Developments, Beijing Urban Construction and Lianfa posted YoY sales growth. The academy attributes May strength to improvement-led demand concentrated in high-end products in some cities and to aggressiv

The Ukrainian General Staff said overnight on 30-31 its forces struck multiple Russian oil, gas and military targets. It reported the Saratov refinery caught fire after an attack in the early hours of the 31st; the refinery is described as a key fuel facility with a design capacity of 7.0 mln tonnes/year. The General Staff also said strikes hit an oil pump station in Kirov Oblast, a large tank farm in Matveyev Kurgan (Rostov Oblast), a command post and observation posts on the eastern Kursk border at Begosha, drone command centres and a drone repair plant in Grafovka (Belgorod Oblast) and at Kalinovye in Donetsk region. Separately, it said on the 30th Ukrainian forces struck storage at the Feodosia oil terminal in Crimea and the Yenakiieve gas storage in western Donetsk region.

據英國《太陽報》：英國大曼徹斯特市長Burnham若成功當選，預計將進行大規模內閣改組。