Stocks in Asia tumbled in morning trade following a plunge on Wall Street overnight.
China's Shanghai composite retraced some of its early losses of more than 2.5 percent to trade down 1.32 percent. The Shenzhen composite declined 1.91 percent. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index fell 1.81 percent.
"Nothing can stop the bear run in October," Dickie Wong, executive director at Kingston Securities, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday.
"The bear runs especially fast in October," Wong said, with "market routs everywhere." He added that the Hang Seng index could "continue to test new low."
Meanwhile, Japan's Nikkei 225 traded down 2.8 percent after seeing losses of more than 3 percent earlier. The Topix index fell by 2.32 percent.
In South Korea, the Kospi fell 2.21 percent, with shares of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both declining by more than 2.5 percent each. The benchmark index was down nearly 17 percent year-to-date, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon data.
Source: CNBC
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