Hong Kong bourse operator's Q1 profit down 13% on weaker listings, trading reut.rs/44c9kGK

There have been concerns that the Olympic triathlon might be postponed or even reduced to a duathlon due to water quality problems in the Seine but Australia's Matt Hauser says he will gladly take the plunge at the #Paris2024 Games reut.rs/3vWMF4J

An aide to a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been arrested on suspicion of ‘especially severe’ espionage for China, the latest in a spate of such arrests across Europe reut.rs/3w8yxFw

Aker BP Q1 beats forecast as costs fall reut.rs/3w6iic1

The biggest economic challenge for the Indian government after the ongoing election is unemployment, according to economists polled by Reuters, who expected the world's most populous country to grow a healthy 6.5% this fiscal year reut.rs/3Wh0ENl

Super Rugby appoints soccer executive to be inaugural CEO reut.rs/3xXFgm2

Spirit AeroSystems said Boeing would give it advance payments of $425 million and help it address issues like higher levels of inventory and lower cashflows after the US aviation regulator capped the planemaker's 737 MAX production reut.rs/3Uxmpr8

A Myanmar rebel group has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by soldiers of the ruling junta from whom the rebels had this month wrested the key trading post, an official said reut.rs/3Wk3vF8

Morning Bid: Yen on the brink, but Tesla pulls back reut.rs/3WfJcc2

India's Airtel in talks to buy Vodafone UK's stake in Indus Towers, ET reports reut.rs/4brpb6X

Standard Chartered lowers Vietnam 2024 growth forecast to 6.0% reut.rs/44fJ3Ya

Rising spot LNG prices starting to bite some Asian buyers: Russell reut.rs/3JweZxJ

China's Huawei launches new software for intelligent driving reut.rs/3WdJfVH

Myanmar rebel group says it withdraws from key town on Thai border reut.rs/3wenKcL

Tesla said that it will use its existing factories to build new and more affordable vehicles as early as late this year, leaving investments in new factories in Mexico and India unlikely in the near term reut.rs/4b5CHwE

The US Senate voted in favor of four bills, three of which are intended to provide billions of dollars in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan reut.rs/3WdBzml

The US Senate passed aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, along with a national security bill that could effectively ban TikTok in the United States, sending them to the White House for Biden to sign into law. Here is what is in the four bills reut.rs/3xU74Ik

Thai c.bank minutes show economy expanding, uncertainty remains reut.rs/3vXm9bt

Elon Musk said an Australian senator should be jailed and suggested the country's gun laws were meant to stop resistance against its ‘fascist government,’ escalating his battle over a court order to remove video posts of a bishop being stabbed reut.rs/44aDGJP

From Breakingviews - Breakingviews - Beijing powers up into car wars battleground reut.rs/49OXOCw reut.rs/49OXOCw