Most Asian stocks advanced on Friday, with technology shares tracking stellar overnight gains in their U.S. peers following stronger-than-expected earnings from Google owner Alphabet.

Vietnam has increased government bond sales by nearly 30% so far this year, data shows, as it bids to boost public spending to spur growth and shield the economy from the risk of crippling U.S. tariffs.

A sharper-than-expected rise in Tokyo’s consumer prices has boosted the likelihood of a Bank of Japan (BoJ) interest rate hike as early as June, ING analysts said in a note.

China warned a G20 meeting that world economic growth was "insufficient" as tariff and trade wars exacerbated economic and financial instability and sapped growth momentum, its finance ministry and central bank said.

China’s government is weighing the exemption of some U.S. goods from its 125% import tariffs, Bloomberg reported on Friday, as the country grapples with the high economic cost of a trade war.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday said the government has compiled an emergency economic package to alleviate any impact on industries and households from the United States’ new import tariffs.