Japan's Nikkei 225 opened up 35.70 points, or 0.05%, at 69,396.58 on Monday, June 29.

Australia AI infrastructure firm Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd will partner with NVIDIA to build its first data center in Indonesia. A revenue-share and credit-support agreement allows Firmus to procure NVIDIA infrastructure for customers and covers up to 170,000 NVIDIA AI accelerator chips in 2027-28; the deal could generate up to $30bn of offtake (committed purchase) revenue over the project's first six years.

Hong Kong innovative-drug stocks extended gains: Jingtai Holdings (02228.HK) jumped over 14%, Rongchang Biotech (09995.HK) rose more than 11%, while WuXi AppTec (02359.HK) and Hengrui Medicine (01276.HK) also advanced.