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Changsha County – – September 30, 2026 -- The Fifth Changsha Tourism Development Conference opened in Changsha County, Hunan Province, on September 29, with organizers reporting that tourist arrivals and total tourism spending in Changsha doubled in 2025 compared with 2021.

Inbound tourist spending rose more than 40 percent year on year in 2025

The conference disclosed that spending by inbound visitors to Changsha increased by over 40 percent in 2025 versus the prior year, a marker of accelerating international tourism recovery in the city.

Wiesbaden – – September 30, 2026 -- Panasonic has launched the TOUGHBOOK G3, a rugged tablet delivering a 39% increase in battery life over its predecessor, the G2mk3, targeting field workers in defence, emergency services, utilities, logistics and manufacturing.

New battery architecture offers up to 24 hours of runtime per charge

The G3 introduces a modular battery system with three interchangeable options rated at 8.5, 17 and 24 hours of usage, based on MobileMark 30 benchmark testing. Its top-tier 99Wh battery is the largest capacity unit fitted to any TOUGHBOOK device to date. An optional 'bridge' battery enables hot-swapping, allowing users to replace power packs without powering down the tablet during extended shifts.

London – September 30, 2026 -- Clarenta Group has taken a majority stake in Leads To Development (L2D), a Paris-based preclinical and regulatory consultancy, expanding its reach into early-stage drug development ahead of first-in-human trials.

Clarenta adds non-clinical and manufacturing expertise to its clinical development platform

L2D specializes in defining development pathways, assessing preclinical evidence, troubleshooting manufacturing processes, and building regulatory strategies for biotech and pharmaceutical sponsors. The addition connects this early-stage scientific work directly to Clarenta's existing Early Phase Unit and clinical consulting capabilities.

Nanchang – September 30, 2026 -- The Jiangxi China-Africa Gen-Z Youth Entrepreneurship Competition concluded on September 29 after drawing 147 eligible entrepreneurial proposals, with 56 percent submitted by mixed Chinese-African teams, organizers said.

Sixteen finalist projects competed for prizes spanning healthcare, agriculture and mining

After multiple evaluation rounds, 16 high-quality projects advanced to the final pitch stage in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. The proposals addressed practical China-Africa cooperation needs, ranging from healthcare and vocational training to modern agriculture and mining. Six projects won first, second and third prizes, while 10 received excellence awards.

London – – September 30, 2026 -- Norge Mining Limited has entered a strategic partnership with GEM Global Yield LLC SCS, part of the $3.4 billion alternative investment group Global Emerging Markets, securing a share subscription facility of up to $125 million that activates only once the company completes a public listing.

GEM commits $125 million facility contingent on Norge Mining's stock market debut

The facility is designed to form part of a broader funding strategy as Norge Mining works to advance both upstream and downstream projects toward Final Investment Decisions. More than $100 million has already been invested in the company's development, covering exploration, resource definition and technical studies, and its upstream Pre-Feasibility Study has now been completed.

New York and Bath, England – – September 30, 2026 -- A joint research study by Dynamic Infrastructure and the University of Bath has found that leading frontier vision-language models do not yet deliver the robustness needed for real-world infrastructure inspection, even as more specialised AI approaches perform substantially better on the same task.

Hangzhou, China – September 30, 2026 -- Hoymiles Power Electronics has launched HoyUltra 2000M, a commercial and industrial energy storage system that cuts required on-site construction work from an estimated 46 hours to 10 hours.

Integrated design shrinks system footprint by 15%

HoyUltra 2000M combines battery, power conversion system (PCS), thermal management, static transfer switch and fire protection into a single unit. Compared with a conventional setup using 10 storage containers in parallel, Hoymiles states the integrated design reduces system footprint by approximately 15% and lowers the volume of external equipment and on-site wiring needed.

Lisbon – September 30, 2026 -- SOFTSWISS has released its 2027 iGaming Trends report, drawing on a survey of more than 500 industry experts and analysis of over 480,000 media headlines to map the sector's regulatory, technological and competitive trajectory.

Fifth anniversary edition adds cross-sector benchmarking against e-commerce and crypto

Marking five years of publication, this edition introduces a new "Beyond iGaming" framework comparing the industry against e-commerce, sports, film, gaming, streaming, e-pharma and crypto on metrics including market size, growth rate, regulatory maturity and digital adoption.

London – September 30, 2026 -- A new global study from Everpure (NYSE: P) finds that 64% of enterprises operate without a formal data sovereignty strategy, even as 88% of large-enterprise C-suite leaders believe a sovereignty failure could cost them their job.

Executives fear financial and reputational fallout from sovereignty failures

The Global Data Sovereignty Report 2026, based on a Vanson Bourne survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across the UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and India in June 2026, found 91% of respondents worry about financial and reputational damage tied to sovereignty lapses. Ninety percent recognize data sovereignty as a core business concern.

London – – September 30, 2026 -- Everpure (NYSE: P) has launched new platform capabilities that cut large language model inference latency by up to 20x and give enterprises native access to governed data for AI agents, the storage and data management company announced. The updates, rolling out in October, extend the company's Data Primacy architecture first introduced at Pure//Accelerate in June.

PureKVA accelerator slashes AI response times by up to 20x

Everpure's FlashBlade system now pre-stages context directly into GPU memory through a new Key-Value Accelerator, delivering up to 20x faster Time to First Token. The company said the approach supports multi-tenancy without relocating datasets, eliminating GPU idle time and reducing response lag for real-time applications.

Los Angeles – September 30, 2026 -- California's economy expanded at an annualized 3.7% rate in the first quarter of 2026, nearly double the 2.1% national growth rate, even as the state's unemployment rate climbed to 5.1% in August, the highest of any U.S. state, according to the UCLA Anderson Forecast's September 2026 outlook.

California outpaces every state but Washington in growth while shedding jobs by one measure

Over the year ending in the first quarter, California GDP grew 3.3% versus 2.7% nationally. Payroll employment rose by 138,500 jobs over the 12 months through August, but a separate household survey showed 246,700 fewer Californians employed and a 351,100 drop in the labor force over the same period. The state's unemployment rate has stayed above 5% for 31 consecutive months.

Barcelona – – September 30, 2026 -- Fira de Barcelona will host the Tomorrow.Blue Economy World Congress (TBEWC) from November 3 to 5, bringing city ports, public administrations, research centres and startups together to develop strategies for the blue economy at the Gran Via venue.

Three dedicated programmes target ports, finance and ocean sustainability

The congress conferences will run across three tracks: Smart Ports: Piers of the Future, the Global Blue Finance Summit, and the Sustainable Ocean Summit. Smart Ports will connect ports, startups, companies and investors to address operational challenges in the maritime sector. The Global Blue Finance Summit and Sustainable Ocean Summit, both organized by the World Ocean Council (WOC), aim to link investors with scalable blue economy opportunities and coordinate business and government action on ocean protection.

Singapore – September 30, 2026 -- SWI Capital Holding Ltd. (Euronext Amsterdam: SWICH) reported €4.4 billion in total assets and €2.3 billion in Adjusted NAV for the six months ended June 30, 2026, a 53% increase from December 31, 2025, as the group accelerates its pivot from a diversified holding company into a global AI infrastructure and compute platform.

Profit surges on Genesis Digital Assets stake

Profit for the period reached €631.6 million, driven primarily by the value recognized on SWI Group's investment in Genesis Digital Assets, since rebranded SWI Digital. The interim report was reviewed by Deloitte.

Singapore – – September 30, 2026 -- More than 300 policymakers, entrepreneurs and experts convened in Singapore on September 29 for the opening of the Asia New Vision Forum (ANVF) Innovation 2026, the fourth edition of an event launched by Caixin Global with backing from the Singapore government.

Forum rebrands with new sub-brand targeting industry-level solutions

Since its 2023 launch, ANVF has held three prior editions focused on macro geopolitical dialogue. The 2026 edition introduces the "Innovation Forum" sub-brand, marking a shift toward practical business applications and sector-specific implementation under the theme "Disruption Meets Resilience."

Stockholm – September 30, 2026 -- Autoliv, Inc. has retired 1,232,671 shares of common stock repurchased during the third quarter, reducing its total issued shares to 74,421,702 as of September 30, 2026.

Outstanding shares now stand at 72,006,695 following the retirement

Each outstanding share carries one vote. The retirement lowers the total count of issued shares, a mechanical adjustment tied to Autoliv's ongoing buyback program.

Autoliv holds 2,415,007 shares in treasury with no voting rights

Under Delaware law, treasury shares carry no voting rights and no entitlement to participate in distributions. The company disclosed the change as required under the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act (lagen (1991:980) om handel med finansiella instrument), with the filing distributed on September 30, 2026, at 08:00 CET.

Autoliv trades on the New York Stock Exchange under ALV and on Nasdaq Stockholm under ALIVsdb.

Oslo – September 30, 2026 -- Nel ASA's US subsidiary, Nel Hydrogen US, has secured approximately USD 7 million in new purchase orders from Collins Aerospace for PEM electrolyser stacks used in submarine life-support systems, pushing the company's total submarine-related order intake from Collins Aerospace to roughly USD 20 million this quarter.

New orders cover US, UK and French naval programs

The latest orders relate to submarine programs across three countries and will be booked as order intake in the third quarter of 2026. They follow a USD 12 million purchase order announced on September 29, 2026, along with several smaller orders received earlier in the month, bringing the combined value from Collins Aerospace to approximately USD 20 million.

Los Angeles – September 30, 2026 -- A newly filmed segment of the public-television series "Viewpoint hosted by Dennis Quaid" profiles Southern Illinois Now (SI NOW), an economic development organization that has unified a 17-county region into a single point of contact for companies weighing relocation away from saturated metropolitan markets.

SI NOW consolidates 17 counties into one negotiating front for site selection

Rather than compete against one another for incoming industry, the counties in SI NOW's network pool infrastructure, workforce data and logistics assets under a shared regional brand. The organization positions this as a direct answer to fragmented local competition, which it says confuses incoming businesses, dilutes talent pools and duplicates administrative costs across neighboring municipalities.

London – September 30, 2026 -- Kinetics has acquired the LNG carrier Arctic Voyager for conversion into a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) named LNGT Akdeniz, expanding its floating LNG infrastructure fleet.

Converted vessel will deliver 650 mmscfd regasification capacity

The multi-spec FSRU will have storage capacity of approximately 143,000 cbm and a regasification flow rate of 650 mmscfd, built on Moss-type cargo tanks with an expected economic life of 20 years. Delivery of the converted unit is scheduled for the third quarter of 2028.

Amsterdam – September 30, 2026 -- Edmund Zagorin, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Arkestro, launched his first book, The Predictive Enterprise: How Superhuman Supply Chains Transform Global Business, at DPW Amsterdam on September 30, with a signing held at Arkestro's booth at 12:30 p.m. CEST.

Book carries a foreword from former GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt

Published by Wiley, the book is available for pre-order now and reaches wide retail availability on October 5, 2026. It draws on interviews with Global 2000 executives and argues that enterprise AI investment will only pay off once companies redesign how decisions get made, not simply automate existing workflows.

London – – September 30, 2026 -- Tetragon Financial Group Limited has published its Monthly Factsheet for August 2026, providing shareholders with the latest disclosure on the Guernsey-based closed-ended investment company.

Tetragon confirms routine disclosure to dual-listed shareholder base

The factsheet release follows Tetragon's standard reporting cycle for its non-voting shares, which trade on Euronext Amsterdam and on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange's Main Market. The company's investment manager, Tetragon Financial Management LP, oversees the fund's portfolio activities.