Asian equities were mostly higher overnight as Hong Kong and Thailand outperformed, while Australia and Pakistan underperformed.

Tencent reported second-quarter revenue growth of 15% on Wednesday, driven by robust gaming performance and deployment of AI across services and platforms including WeChat. For the three months to June,

The videogame and social-media company posted better-than-expected results amid resilience in its key gaming business and rapid AI-led growth in its marketing-services segment.