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Taiwan's Han Kuang 42 exercise conducted multi-weapon live fire at Penghu on August 10, integrating M60A3 tanks, howitzers, and mortars in a simulated amphibious assault scenario. The exercise also introduced a deliberate 30-minute mobile network slowdown across Taichung, Miaoli, and Nantou to test command resilience under degraded communications, with a northern Taiwan slowdown scheduled for August 13. Separately, claims that HIMARS fired during Han Kuang 42 are unconfirmed; the documented first Taiwan Strait HIMARS rocket firing occurred in a distinct June 10 drill.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group is set to publish its unaudited Q2 2026 financials before the U.S. market opens on August 11, with a management webcast at 7:00 a.m. EDT, though results were not yet available at the article's cutoff. The most recent confirmed figures are from Q1 2026, when the company reported RMB7.90 billion in revenue and RMB2.09 billion in net income, both up year over year. Analysts previewed by MarketBeat estimated Q2 EPS of US$0.24 and revenue of approximately US$1.30 billion, though those figures carry no official backing until the release and webcast confirm them.