Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index (HSI) opened down 379.04 pts (-1.52%) at 24,582.91 on Monday, June 8. Hang Seng Tech opened down 118.70 pts (-2.43%) at 4,769.69. Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (HSCEI) opened down 139.72 pts (-1.66%) at 8,296.91. Hang Seng Red Chip Index opened down 50.02 pts (-1.15%) at 4,303.35.

SK Telecom and NVIDIA on June 8 announced plans to build a gigawatt-scale AI cloud in South Korea using NVIDIA’s DSX platform. The first AI factory is scheduled to enter service in 2027, with plans to expand more broadly across Asia. The AI cloud will use NVIDIA’s DSX full-stack reference architecture and support training, inference and agent workloads across sovereign AI, physical AI and enterprise AI use cases. SK Telecom will join NVIDIA’s cloud partner program. NVIDIA and SK Group will conduct joint research on next-generation AI factory architectures, focusing on full-stack innovation from chips to the power grid, including accelerated compute, storage technologies and data-center operations.

On the 7th, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said Hamas is meeting in Cairo with mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey to seek an effective plan to ensure the first phase of a ceasefire and its humanitarian provisions are implemented and to halt what he called "genocide and assassination operations" against Palestinians.