South Korea's KOSPI opened down 208.95 points (-3.27%) at 6,175.29 on Tuesday, Oct. 13. SK Hynix fell 4% and Samsung Electronics fell 3%.

China’s Ministry of Education will roll out a vocational-education work plan aimed at expanding and upgrading service-sector capacity by prioritizing high-skilled talent. The plan will target eight priority fields chosen for large capacity, strong growth support, clear GDP pull and acute skills shortages, and sets a task ledger covering teaching-factor reform, vocational skills training and vocational education standards with responsibility-based, checklist implementation. For technical support services it will focus on high-end equipment clusters in Jing-Jin-Ji, Chang-Zhu-Tan and Chengdu–Chongqing, prioritizing high-skilled training in aerospace equipment and intelligent non-destructive testing for rail transit. For software and data services it will target the Greater Bay Area, key central and western cities and national data-labeling pilot cities, emphasizing large-scale domestic software adoption, AI-related needs and training in HarmonyOS application and human-in-the-loop data labeling.

OPEC secretary-general said oil demand growth this year is 400,000 bpd.