South Korea's science minister said Seoul plans to attract 550 trillion won of investment by 2029 to build 8.4 GW of AI data-center capacity.

The office of Lebanon's parliament speaker said Iran's parliament speaker Ghalibaf assured that Tehran will, under a memorandum of understanding, press Israel to stop launching military operations against Lebanon.

China's Central Propaganda Department, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently jointly issued an action plan to reform and upgrade rural family bookhouses and promote village reading. The plan prioritizes tailoring layouts and formats to local conditions, optimizing content supply to meet local demand, innovating delivery models to cultivate a reading culture, and strengthening institutional support; it calls for "bookhouse+" empowerment and flexible "+bookhouse" integration, expanded digital services, development of distinctive brands, encouragement of social-sector participation and publicity to improve bookhouse functions and rural reading service efficiency.