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Charmaine Lo羅 嘉 晴News Anchor · Morning Report

Mon, Oct 26, 16:45 HKT

Morning roundup

Election results in Serbia and Brazil, renewed fighting around Riyadh, Hong Kong funding and technology benchmarks, and reported Tailscale flaws.

• WorldVučić concedes to student-led opposition

  Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat in Sunday’s snap parliamentary election, with final results outstanding, to a student-led movement that grew from two years of protests following the Novi Sad station canopy collapse and campaigned against corruption and political control of public institutions. The collapse killed 16 people.

• WorldLula wins a fourth term

  Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro to secure a fourth term, the BBC reports. The knife-edge result returns the left-wing incumbent to office after a closely contested vote.

• WorldSaudi coalition strikes Houthi missile sites

  The Saudi-led coalition said Monday it destroyed four Houthi ballistic missile launchers, a missile depot and tunnels, while the Houthis claimed another attack on Riyadh’s international airport. The operation followed explosions in the Saudi capital on Sunday and official text warnings to residents of a hostile aerial threat.

• FinanceHKMA expands renminbi funding capacity

  The HKMA will increase its dedicated renminbi repo facility from RMB20 billion to RMB22 billion on 27 October, when twelve designated banks begin a new two-year term as Primary Liquidity Providers. The 10 per cent increase is shared across the scheme and expands funding support for Hong Kong’s offshore renminbi market.

• Hong KongHKEX adds AI and semiconductor indices

  HKEX launched benchmarks tracking 40 Hong Kong-listed companies exposed to AI and the 30 largest semiconductor-related companies listed in the city. Its announcement also disclosed a licensing agreement with Southern Asset Management for mainland ETFs tracking the AI index, with product launch details still to come.

• CyberTailscale root-access claims await confirmation

  Erica Windisch’s unreplicated lab tests on Tailscale 1.104.2 and headscale 0.29.5 reported root access from a compromised, SSH-permitted device with forwarding enabled; no CVE identifier or fixed version existed at publication. Reported mitigations include narrow source-to-destination SSH rules and disabling forwarding per rule on Tailscale’s hosted service, unavailable on headscale 0.29.5; Tailscale has not confirmed the specific claims or full affected-version range.