China's Ministry of Finance issued the Accounting Reform and Development '15th Five-Year' Plan, calling for stronger accounting oversight. The plan seeks a more robust accounting supervision system, improved mechanisms to combat financial fraud, intensified supervision of priority sectors and remediation of prominent issues, and higher precision and effectiveness in enforcement, aiming to accelerate clearance of existing financial-fraud cases and effectively contain new incidents.

Indian media reported an Air India flight from Kolkata to Mumbai was grounded before a scheduled 10:20 local departure after a hijack-threat note was found in a lavatory. Passengers were evacuated and the aircraft moved to an isolation bay for full security checks. The note reportedly warned of a hijacking at 11:10. Kolkata airport activated security procedures; inspection results and the note’s origin remain under investigation.

SoftBank Group shares tumbled as much as 11%, hitting 3,465 yen intraday in Tokyo, after the Japanese tech investment firm posted its first net loss in nearly two years: a 1.12 trillion yen ($7.1bn) loss in the fiscal second quarter. The hit included a $3.7bn impairment on a U.S. data‑center project and markdowns of AI‑related assets, and primarily reflected write‑offs of prepayments for power equipment—originally for an 8GW Ohio project and other U.S. data centers—that became unrecoverable after project changes.