At its mid-year results briefing, Ping An co-CEO and general manager Xie Yonglin said the tax on overseas insurance income is not a new policy, has not been extended to domestic insurance income, and because Ping An holds very few overseas policies the impact on the company is almost zero.

Ford Motor Co. (F.N) filed an application with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to recall 60,000 vehicles.

On an Aug. 20 investor call, International Composite Materials said its second‑generation low‑dielectric LDK product has entered the supply chains of several leading domestic and overseas copper‑clad laminate manufacturers and is in stable commercial supply. Its low‑expansion LCTE product is in small‑batch supply and capacity expansion is being advanced in an orderly manner. Q‑cloth remains in R&D; the company aims to complete pilot construction and commissioning within 2026. Specialty electronic cloth already represents a material share of electronic‑cloth revenue. The firm said it will continue to refine high‑end products and steadily push capacity builds and client onboarding to expand its high‑end electronic materials business.