Asia-Pacific markets mostly climbed Monday, after Wall Street saw all three U.S. major indexes climb Friday stateside.

Investors in Asia are assessing manufacturing activity figures out from China after RatingDog published its purchasing managers index for October.

China's manufacturing activity slowed to 50.6, missing the 50.9 expected by economists polled by Reuters and lower than September's 51.2.

The official PMI numbers released Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that China's manufacturing activity in October shrunk to its lowest level in six months, coming in at 49.0.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rose 1.03%, while mainland China's CSI 300 reversed losses and climbed 0.11%.

South Korea's Kospi rose 2.78% to close at a new high of 4,221.87, a

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