cenc automatic determination: 15:21 on Nov 2 — magnitude ~3.0 earthquake near Muli County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan (28.16N, 100.76E). Preliminary; final parameters pending formal quick report.

Nov 2 CHINA spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular briefing that China has noted reports of N. KOREA conducting a tactical ballistic missile test assessing submunition warhead lethality and Pyongyang’s recent statements responding to US–South Korea–Japan military moves. She said China hopes parties confront the peninsula’s root causes, pursue a political resolution and take steps to ease tensions and preserve regional peace and stability.

Brookfield has appointed KB Kookmin Bank as lead arranger on South Korea's largest syndicated loan to date: a 10.7 trillion-won (about $8.0bn) facility to finance NAVER's purchase of AI compute infrastructure, including GPUs. The loan is part of a broader 12.6 trillion-won financing package; the chips will be supplied to NAVER Cloud under long-term lease arrangements. The transaction, described as Korea's first large-scale GPU financing, underscores Asian banks and private credit funds expanding AI financing beyond data centre builds to cover compute hardware.