RECAP: Emerging Asian markets fell on Friday as surging oil prices and limited progress in US-Iran peace negotiations heightened concerns over inflation and economic uncertainty. As well, the Trump-Xi summit produced little news to excite investors.

The Transport Ministry has launched three new measures to support app-based transport drivers, while tightening safety oversight.

U.S. President Donald Trump left China on Friday (May 15) with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite two days spent heaping praise on his host, Xi Jinping. - REUTERS

Hundreds of people attended an anti-Eurovision Song Contest open air concert, dubbed “No Stage for Genocide,” on Friday (May 15) in host city Vienna, as a demonstration against Israel's participation in this year's contest. - REUTERS

Mourners brought flowers and toys on Friday (May 15) to a makeshift memorial near the rubble of a Kyiv apartment building where a Russian missile strike killed 24 people, including three children. - REUTERS