Russian Defence Ministry said over the past 24 hours its air defences shot down 1,134 drones and 11 precision-guided aerial bombs. It said Russian forces struck Ukrainian energy and transport infrastructure, logistics hubs and drone assembly and storage facilities in the area of the special military operation.

日本央行七月會議意見摘要：一名成員表示，預計秋季消費品通脹將重新加速。

Hang Seng rose 0.72% to 25,853.69 at midday after an early gap higher that briefly added more than 200 points and brought the index back above its 250-day moving average; the Hang Seng Tech index briefly gave back gains before noon and was up 0.37% at 4,876.20. Market turnover hit HK$140.8 billion. Livestock and innovative-drug names led gains, with gold, coal and consumer sectors also outperforming; storage, optical communications and semiconductor/compute-hardware-related sectors lagged. Guotai Junan International (01788.HK) resumed trading and jumped 36.3% after Guotai Haitong (02611.HK) proposed a take‑private at about a 44.2% premium. Wuxi AppTec (02359.HK) closed up 2.86% after an intraday record high of HK$204.20. Muyuan Foods (02714.HK) rose 4.18%, Chifeng Gold (06693.HK) gained 3.09%; GigaDevice (03986.HK) fell 6.17% and Hua Hong Semiconductor (01347.HK) dropped 3.05%.