now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. a strong earnings results for way bow. will we see similar numbers for tencent? tencent?. good morning, asia. glad you could join us for this midweek edition of asia business report. chinese social media giant weibo has reported reve nu es of media giant weibo has reported revenues of just media giant weibo has reported revenues ofjust under $200 million, an increase of 67% compared the year ago levels. profits are coming in at about $47 million us. the company claims 347 million monthly active users, an increase of 30% over the past year. another tech giant in china, tencent, is tipped to report encouraging numbers today. but with a saturated market, what are the other avenues for growth? certainly they need to start looking outside of the chinese market. there s still a lot of growth in chinese market, for example tencent are actively looking outside, looking at notjust china but around hong kong and sing
will eu countries be added to the us flight laptop ban? top officials are due to meet in brussels. will robots ever replace humans? we show you the latest creations that are grabbing the attention of company bosses. welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in the programme it s risk off for the world s financial markets, thanks to the latest trump turmoil. but first today eu and us officials are meeting to discuss a potential extension of the laptop ban on aircrafts. in march, the trump administration imposed new restrictions which prevent us bound travellers from carrying electronic devices larger than a mobile phone into the cabin. the original set of restrictions affected flights from eight mostly muslim countries including turkey, egypt, the united arab emirates and saudi arabia. this affected many of the gulf carriers including emirates, etihad and qatar airways, but now there are reports suggesting that the ban could be extended to include some coun
here s jay wynne. yesterday was interesting as it was the warmest day of the year so far, with the top temperature of 26 degrees. also the warmest day in scotla nd degrees. also the warmest day in scotland at 22 degrees. this morning we had muddy conditions in the south east. and we have all this cloud, a dividing line between the warm and muggy air and something good deal of pressure towards south and mass and west. that fresh air is going to win out over the next few days, moving that rain out of the way. the rain has been across much of england and wales this morning, making it pretty unpleasant. much brighter further north. some lovely sunshine. and 15 or16 north. some lovely sunshine. and 15 or 16 degrees. the far north of england doing quite well and cornwall should be drying up but all this rain is really quite heavy underneath that central sway. and quite chilly underneath that. but still quite warm and muggy in the south east. as the rain moves through this evenin