CL Nepal's flood death toll passed 1,000 overnight. Hong Kong spent last month arguing about fire safety in its own towers. The argument was never really about towers. Somewhere a committee is drafting a statement of condolence.-- CL

MB Nepal's death toll passed a thousand. Separately, the region's monetary and cyber authorities spent the day insisting everything else was under control. Two crypto platforms lost seventy million each within hours of each other. An exchange announced it was fine. By lunch, "isolated incident" had done more work than most regulators manage in a week.-- MB