Night session open: China's main futures contracts mostly higher. Coking coal up more than 2%, polypropylene (PP) near +2%; Shanghai tin, pulp and coke up over 1%. Shanghai nickel and Shanghai gold down about 1%.

TASNIM NEWS: Iran’s deputy foreign minister Gharibabadi traveled to Oman to attend a Joint Committee meeting on the Strait of Hormuz. Officials discussed current issues affecting the strait and exchanged views on its future management under Article 5 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding and on littoral states’ sovereign rights.

Samsung vice chairman Lee Jae‑yong said the company is in a "race against time" and has sped up plans to build semiconductor fabs in the Seoul metropolitan area. Gwangju (southwest South Korea) will be developed as a new memory manufacturing base; Cheonan and Onyang will be designated high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) packaging centers. Samsung also plans to deploy humanoid robots at its Gumi (North Gyeongsang) fab and increase related investment.