APAC (Asia-Pacific)

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 10, 2025 - Hanwha Finance is sharpening its Middle East growth agenda as Chief Global Officer Dong-Won Kim used his opening address at Abu Dhabi Finance Week's Global Markets Summit to position South Korea-UAE financial collaboration as a long-term strategic pillar for both economies and a testbed for next-generation digital capital markets.

Strengthening a Korea-UAE "100-Year Partnership" Through Finance

Speaking in Abu Dhabi, Kim framed financial services as the connective tissue that will turn high-level Korea-UAE diplomacy into investable projects and new cross-border capital flows. He noted that "since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1980, South Korea and the UAE have continuously expanded the scope of cooperation", and stressed that Hanwha Finance intends to help carry forward a "100-year partnership" between the two nations.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 10, 2025 - Jiangyin, a key industrial hub in China's Yangtze River Delta, has wrapped up its 2025 Golden Autumn Month of Investment with 208 newly signed projects worth a combined 68 billion RMB, underscoring the city's ambitions in integrated circuits, next-generation information technology, advanced manufacturing and clean energy. For global investors and industrial operators, the city is signaling a long-term commitment to high-value, supply-chain-dense clusters backed by capital, research alliances and pro-business policy.

Golden Autumn Campaign Delivers 208 Projects and Deepens 14th FYP Momentum

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 8, 2025 - The Philippines is stepping up its outreach to China's travel industry with a dedicated e-visa training roadshow, as Manila moves to make short-stay tourism and business travel easier and more predictable for Chinese visitors - and to give tour operators, OTAs and consolidators a clear operational playbook ahead of the next wave of demand.

Shenyang Training Puts Front-Line Travel Sellers in Focus

In Shenyang, the Philippine Embassy in China and the Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT) co-hosted the "菲常旅程，E触即行" e-visa training for the local travel trade, drawing agency representatives and distribution partners from across the region. The session served both as a policy briefing and as a hands-on workshop, designed to ensure that front-line sellers understand eligibility, processes and system workflows.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 8, 2025 - AGIBOT has reached a key industrialization milestone with the rollout of its 5,000th mass-produced humanoid robot at its Shanghai factory, signaling that embodied AI is moving beyond pilots and demos into scaled deployment across manufacturing, logistics and service environments.

From R&D to Scaled Production Across Three Robot Families

The milestone reflects years of work on stability, reliability and durability in embodied robotics systems. AGIBOT's portfolio now spans three mass-produced humanoid platforms, each tailored to distinct use cases and deployment environments.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 8, 2025 - Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) has reached a major milestone with the delivery of its 1,000th Speedmaster CX 104 press, a 14-unit specialty configuration bound for the fast-growing Chinese packaging printer Hoifu Group, underscoring strong demand for high-performance, value-optimized presses in the premium packaging market.

Global Bestseller Targets High-End Packaging Growth in China

The Speedmaster CX 104 has become the bestseller in HEIDELBERG's portfolio thanks to its attractive price-performance ratio and broad suitability for commercial and packaging applications. The landmark 1,000th unit will be installed at Hoifu Group's new site in Yancheng, where it will run as part of an end-to-end, Prinect-based workflow.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 8, 2025 - Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) is turning its "Home of Print" into a global showcase for the next generation of printers, using the first Print Technology World Championship to promote the attractiveness of print careers and strengthen the industry's long-term skills pipeline.

World Championship Turns the "Home of Print" into a Live Skills Arena

In November, HEIDELBERG and the Swiss Printing and Media Association jointly hosted the inaugural "Print Technology World Championship" for young printing professionals at the Print Media Center at the Wiesloch-Walldorf site. The competition was explicitly aimed at emerging talent and designed to draw attention to the relevance of print as a modern, technology-driven profession.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 8, 2025 - Kellanova is using its "Cool Soil Critters" campaign in Australia to turn an often invisible topic-soil health-into a mainstream sustainability and supply-chain conversation, linking biodiversity beneath the surface directly to crop resilience, food security and long-term brand value.

From Iconic Foods to the Health of the Soil Behind Them

As a company that depends on crops to make the foods people know and love, Kellanova is positioning soil health as a strategic asset rather than a purely agronomic concern. Through its partnership with the Cool Soil Initiative, Kellanova Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) is supporting programs that help farmers increase organic carbon levels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on Australian farms.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - MicroCloud Hologram Inc. is pushing deeper into quantum computing and AI with a new quantum-driven 3D intelligent model designed to automate high-precision 3D model and image generation for enterprise customers. Built on a modular, quantum-optimized architecture, the system aims to shrink development timelines, cut manual rework and give industrial users a more scalable backbone for holographic digital twins, LiDAR and advanced visualization workloads.

Quantum Meets 3D Modeling for Enterprise-Grade Workflows

At the core of MicroCloud's new system is a 3D modeling and image-processing stack that fuses quantum deep learning with classical AI. The model ingests massive, heterogeneous datasets-ranging from 3D modeling inputs to complex image streams-and uses quantum-enhanced algorithms to extract key features and automatically generate 3D assets that align with user-defined parameters.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - Growing demand for lightweight, design-driven and performance-oriented components is steadily expanding the global automotive alloy wheel market, with new research from Valuates Reports projecting revenues to rise from USD 11.4 billion in 2022 to USD 14.17 billion by 2029, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.1% driven by OEM integration and aftermarket upgrades worldwide.

OEM Shift to Lightweight Wheels Reshapes Automotive & Mobility Strategies

In the global Automotive & Mobility industry, alloy wheels have moved from optional upgrade to core specification as manufacturers seek every opportunity to reduce vehicle weight and improve driving dynamics. Lower unsprung mass translates into smoother acceleration, more responsive steering and more efficient braking - all critical attributes as automakers balance efficiency, comfort and safety.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - Beyless, a Seoul-based mobility software technology company, has secured Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) Capability Level 2 (CL2) certification for its vehicle system software, underscoring its readiness to meet the stringent quality expectations of global automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.

ASPICE CL2 as a Quality Benchmark for Automotive Software

ASPICE CL2 is an international process assessment model that validates whether software development is carried out in a systematic and consistent way across the entire lifecycle. For automotive OEMs and Tier-1s, ASPICE has effectively become a de-facto prerequisite for collaboration, especially in complex domains such as in-vehicle infotainment and connected mobility platforms.