MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026– VinFast has officially opened pre-orders for the all-new VF 8 in the Philippines, the first international market to introduce the D-segment electric SUV. Developed on a new-generation technology platform, the VF 8 is designed to elevate the driving experience. Interested customers can register through VinFast’s authorized dealerships nationwide. The first 1,000 customers who place pre-orders from today through November 5, 2026, will receive a free one-year battery subscription.
The VinFast VF 8 is now available for pre-order in the Philippines, further expanding the brand’s product lineup and offering customers more choice.
The VF 8 is VinFast’s all-new D-segment electric SUV and will be introduced in the Philippine market. Developed with comprehensive advancements in design, technology platform, features, and driving experience, the VF 8 is designed to deliver a modern, comfortable, and intelligent mobility experience that meets the increasingly diverse needs of Filipino customers.
In terms of design and comfort, the all-new VF 8 is developed around the “Tech Fluid” design philosophy, focusing on seamless lines, sophistication and a strong sense of motion. The overall design combines technology, emotion and everyday practicality in a modern, dynamic package.
Alongside its technology and performance upgrades, the all-new VF 8 offers added peace of mind with a vehicle warranty of seven years or 160,000 km and a battery warranty of 10 years or 200,000 km.
From now through November 5, 2026, Philippine customers can place a deposit for the all-new VF 8 through VinFast’s authorized dealerships nationwide, with a non-refundable deposit of PHP 5,000-10,000. The first 1,000 customers who place their deposits during this period will receive a complimentary one-year battery subscription.
The all-new VF 8 will officially launch in the Philippines in November 2026, with the first vehicles expected to be delivered starting the same month.
Antonio “Toti” Zara III, CEO of VinFast Philippines, said: “The tremendous demand for VinFast’s innovations here in the Philippines inspired us to launch this early booking program for the all-new VF 8. Built for the performance and tech-focused Filipinos, the VF 8 promises a premium midsize crossover e-SUV experience. The pre-order program is our way of giving Filipinos a chance to be among the first in the Philippines to experience our newest offering. We cannot wait for the arrival of the VF 8 in the Philippines this November, and we are even more excited to welcome more Filipinos to the VinFast ecosystem.”
VinFast is building a comprehensive “For a Green Future” EV ecosystem across key markets in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, the launch of the all-new VF 8, together with VinFast’s diverse EV lineup and customer support policies, further strengthens the foundation for the company’s development in the market. VinFast is also investing in after-sales services and charging infrastructure with the support of V-Green and local partners, providing practical benefits, helping reduce ownership costs and making EV ownership more convenient, while contributing to the Philippines’ transition toward greener mobility./.
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SHENZHEN, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – Global smart device brand OPPO today announced a collaboration with Manus, a leading AI agent platform, to bring next-generation agentic AI experiences to smartphones. By integrating Manus’ agentic capabilities to OPPO AI Mind Pilot, the collaboration will help users turn complex, multi-step tasks into ready-to-use results—advancing OPPO’s vision for Personalized Proactive Intelligence, where AI understands users and proactively helps them get things done.
“Agentic AI marks an important shift from answering questions to helping users get things done.” said Kai Tang, President of Software Engineering at OPPO. “Together with Manus, we are bringing more proactive and capable experiences to AI Mind Pilot, enabling AI to better understand users’ intentions, take actions and complete tasks. Our goal is to make personal AI a natural part of everyday life and work.”
“Smartphones are central to people’s daily lives and support many of the tasks they handle every day, making them a natural platform for personal AI agents,” said Tao Zhang, Co-Founder & CPO of Manus. “By bringing together Manus’ agentic capabilities and OPPO’s system-level integration, we can make advanced AI agents more accessible and help users complete multi-step tasks through simple, natural interactions.”
Manus Capabilities Debut in AI Mind Pilot’s New Agent Mode
The collaboration will debut through the integration of Manus’ agentic capabilities into AI Mind Pilot’s new Agent Mode on the upcoming OPPO Find X10 Series with ColorOS 17.
Designed to move beyond simple question-and-answer interactions, AI Mind Pilot can understand a user’s end goal, break it down into multiple steps, identify relevant information, select the appropriate tools, and deliver a finished result, including by working directly with files and photos stored on the device.
For example, a user planning a trip could simply ask AI Mind Pilot to organize their travel plans. It can find flight tickets, hotel bookings, restaurant reservations, and attraction tickets scattered across different apps on the smartphone, organize them, and combine them with relevant online information to create a personalized, day-by-day itinerary—without requiring users to manually gather and upload the information.
The same capabilities can support everyday creative and professional tasks. Users can ask AI Mind Pilot to find and organize photos from a trip, locate specific images, or bring together existing files and online information to create a presentation, proposal, portfolio, or other ready-to-use content, all with just one single prompt.
Powerful Agentic AI Built Around User Control and Privacy
As AI moves from providing information to working with personal context and completing tasks, privacy, security, and user control become increasingly important. AI Mind Pilot is designed with these priorities at its core.
ColorOS 17 uses on-device models to understand and organize relevant information locally. For local tasks such as finding, organizing, or renaming files and photos, the original content remains on the device and is not shared with Manus. When a task requires external processing, AI Mind Pilot will ask for the user’s explicit confirmation before relevant content is uploaded or shared.
Users remain in control of what information is accessed, which actions are taken and whether external processing is allowed. Through on-device processing and transparent authorization, OPPO and Manus aim to make agentic AI more capable while maintaining a clear fucus on users’ choice and control.
Launching on OPPO Find X10 Series
The Manus-powered capabilities in AI Mind Pilot will debut on the OPPO Find X10 Series with ColorOS 17. Further details on availability, supported markets, and user benefits will be announced at launch.
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SHENZHEN, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – OPPO today unveiled ColorOS 17, the latest generation of its mobile operating system, delivering a new level of smoothness alongside more intelligent, system-level AI capabilities. Debuting on the upcoming Find X10 Series and rolling out progressively to more OPPO devices, ColorOS 17 will bring these new experiences to users worldwide.
Flow Everywhere
From Parallel Animation in ColorOS 15 to Seamless Animation in ColorOS 16, smoothness has long been a defining quality of ColorOS. With ColorOS 17, OPPO takes this further, introducing the all-new Living Flow Design to make every interaction feel even more natural, continuous and responsive.
Living Flow Design is built around three core ideas: Luminous Effect, Fluid Motion and Flexible Feedback. Luminous Effect introduces softer, more translucent visuals, creating a refined sense of depth and hierarchy, while subtle lighting naturally guides attention and responds to touch. Fluid Motion enables interface elements to move, merge and transform seamlessly from one state to the next, with this sense of continuity carried throughout the system. Flexible Feedback brings the same sense of responsiveness to touch. Buttons, toolbars and other interactive elements visibly compress, stretch and rebound in response to taps, giving each interaction a more immediate and tactile feel rather than a mechanical response. Together, these elements create a more fluid and cohesive experience across the system, making everything from app transitions and Fluid Cloud to everyday interactions feel more immediate and intuitive.
To make this experience consistent across the system, ColorOS 17 introduces a Unified Rendering Architecture built on the refreshed Luminous Rendering Engine. By bringing previously separate rendering processes into a unified pipeline, the new architecture not only enables richer visual effects and more continuous transitions, but also reduces redundant rendering operations for greater efficiency. In key scenarios, it cuts rendering loads by up to 30% and RAM usage for rendering by up to 25% compared with the previous generation, helping interactions remain smooth even under heavy load.
Beyond visual rendering, ColorOS 17 also improves system-level responsiveness with the upgraded Laminar Flow Engine, an intelligent resource scheduling system built to handle increasingly complex mobile workloads. Built on OPPO’s Adaptive Scheduling Architecture, it coordinates foreground and background workloads as part of a unified flow, delivering consistently smooth performance across both everyday use and demanding scenarios.
With the Laminar Flow Engine, app launch stability improves by 55%, while Gallery thumbnails load up to 50% faster on first launch compared with ColorOS 16. During multitasking, ColorOS 17 can also keep over 25% more apps running in the background, helping users switch between apps more smoothly. 1
And smoothness is not only about how a phone performs today, but how well that experience holds up over time. In tests simulating six years of use, ColorOS 17 retains over 90% of its initial smoothness, even with storage at 90% capacity. 1
OPPO AI, Flow with Your Mind
ColorOS 17 expands OPPO AI with system-level agentic capabilities designed not only to answer questions, but also to help users complete complex tasks.
With ColorOS 17, AI Mind Pilot introduces a new Agent Mode that can work directly with photos and files stored on the device, search across multiple sources, use the appropriate tools and coordinate multiple steps to complete tasks based on the user’s request. It can find and organize scattered files, rename them based on their content and date, and use the information within them to create new outputs such as travel itineraries or webpages. It can also find photos from a specific trip, sort them into albums, and even turn a selected photo into a vlog cover or adapt it for different creative needs.
ColorOS 17 also introduces AI Photo Agent, making photo editing more intuitive while staying true to the natural look and authentic character of the original scene. With Style Match, users can simply provide a reference image, and AI Photo Agent can understand its color palette, tone and overall mood before applying a similar look to their own photo. Users can also describe the edits they want in natural language, or let AI Photo Agent analyze the image and recommend suitable adjustments based on the scene and subject.
AI Mind Space, OPPO’s personal information hub, receives a major upgrade in ColorOS 17. Users can now save documents and video links, with AI recognizing their content and turning it into structured, searchable personal memories. As saved information grows, the new Memory Collections automatically organize related memories into useful collections and summaries. For travel, it can combine remembered content with destination maps to create personalized trip plans based on the places, ideas and information users have saved.
The new AI Mind Suggest brings useful information and services to users at just the right moment. From a morning brief and timely travel reminders to flight and train cards that surface key journey information, AI Mind Suggest proactively helps users stay on top of what matters throughout the day. It can also recommend music when headphones are connected, making useful services available when they are most relevant.
Meanwhile, OSee brings OPPO’s visual AI capabilities together into one integrated experience. With a single press of the camera shutter, OSee can intelligently understand objects and scenes in view and connect users to services such as object recognition, knowledge lookup, nutrition analysis, high-definition scanning and translation. Instead of choosing between multiple separate tools, users can go directly from what they see to the service they need.
Security, Always On
ColorOS continues to place user privacy and data protection at the core of its AI experiences. OPPO’s Private Computing Cloud protects data used for cloud-based AI processing with end-to-end encryption and processes it within a secure environment designed to prevent access by third parties, including OPPO. ColorOS 17 further strengthens data transmission security with new post-quantum security capabilities in PCC. When data is transmitted between the device and the cloud, a dual-encryption mechanism helps protect information against emerging threats posed by quantum computing.
A new Transparency Report in ColorOS 17 gives users greater visibility into how their data is processed. The report provides information including which AI services have been used, when they were accessed and what operations were performed. Users can view the report directly on their device and export it whenever needed.
Proactive protection is also strengthened with the new AI Call Guard. Powered by on-device AI detection, AI Call Guard monitors calls in real time for emerging fraud risks such as synthetic voices and AI face swaps, alerting users when suspicious activity is detected to help protect both their communications and personal information.
Availability
ColorOS 17 will debut on the upcoming OPPO Find X10 Series, with additional OPPO devices receiving the update progressively.
For detailed rollout information, please refer to the official ColorOS website.
[1] Data from OPPO Lab.
2AI Photo Agent will roll out gradually across multiple countries, with availability in Europe to follow at a later date. Monthly usage limits apply and vary by country or region. This feature supports static images only.
3Long-doc Capture and Link Capture are not available in Europe.
4 Certain features, like MakeMyTrip Train Card, flight information reminders and Spotify music recommendations are only available in certain countries and regions.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – MetroTrans 2026 will take place from November 9 to 11 at Area D of the Canton Fair Complex in Guangzhou. As one of the three core professional events of Guangzhou Rail Transit Week 2026 (November 8–13), the exhibition is organized by the China Association of Metros (CAMET) .
Established in 2015 with the approval of China’s Ministry of Commerce, MetroTrans serves as a premier international exhibition and exchange platform for the urban rail transit sector. Over the years, it has attracted more than 1,500 exhibitors worldwide and welcomed over 200,000 professional visits. Spanning a planned exhibition area of 50,000 square meters, this year’s edition covers the entire rail transit industry chain and is estimated to convene over 500 exhibitors alongside more than 40,000 trade visitors from over 50 countries and regions across the globe.
The exhibition features six dedicated thematic zones that vertically integrate the entire industry chain: Operations, Maintenance & Existing Line Upgrades; Outdoor Rolling Stock, Vehicle Systems & Equipment Supply Chain; Signaling, Telecommunications & Intelligent Digital Solutions; Infrastructure; Diversified Business Operations; and Talent Education, Scientific Literacy & Study Tours.
During the event, the COMET Guangzhou Annual Meeting 2026, hosted by the Community of Metros (COMET) and organized by Guangzhou Metro, will take place concurrently from November 10 to 13. Managed by Imperial College London and comprising 48 major metro operators worldwide, COMET will convene delegates from 45 member organizations to unveil its annual benchmark findings and advance international technological cooperation as well as standard harmonization. A delegation of senior executives from global metro operators, overseas transit authorities, and industry associations will also travel to China to tour the exhibition and engage in high-level business matchmaking.
The exhibition will also feature a range of interactive public engagement activities, including cultural and creative bazaars, Metro Open Days, and urban rail study tours.
For more information, please visit the official exhibition website www.metrotrans.com.cn
Organizing Committee Exhibition Enquiries: Email：metrotrans-sd@railvision.cn, Tel 010-83935722
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Livestreams, affiliate marketing, and Fulfilled by Shopee are some of the tools that Kinohimitsu taps on to scale its business
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – Homegrown functional beauty and wellness brand Kinohimitsu has been a seller on Shopee since day one. Over the years, its annual orders on Shopee have grown more than 40-fold, demonstrating how the e-commerce platform has become a key sales channel for the business.
Kinohimitsu joined Shopee since the platform launched in 2015.
During this time, Shopee’s role in Kinohimitsu’s business has expanded beyond sales. Livestreams and affiliate marketing solutions have allowed the brand to reach and engage new audiences. As demand grew, the brand leveraged Fulfilled by Shopee to manage and scale its fulfilment operations.
Establishing a Strong Online Presence Through Shopee
Established in Singapore in 1998, Kinohimitsu has grown into a leading functional beauty and wellness brand, known particularly for its collagen drinks and wider range of health supplements. Today, Shopee is Kinohimitsu’s key sales channel, attracting more traffic than its own online store.
“When Kinohimitsu joined Shopee 11 years ago, e-commerce was still a relatively small part of our business. Today, it has become an important growth engine. Beyond sales, our experience on Shopee helps us understand what shoppers are looking for, informing how we innovate and develop products that better meet their needs,” said Kawee Chong, Chief Executive Officer, Kino Biotech.
“Kinohimitsu has grown alongside Shopee since our first year in Singapore, and we are proud to continue supporting the company as its business needs evolve,” said Chua Kel Jin, Director, Shopee Singapore. “From expanding its reach and customer engagement to supporting fulfilment during major campaigns, we want to give homegrown businesses the tools and solutions they need to achieve long-term growth in the digital economy.”
Scaling Fulfilment as Campaign Demand Grew
As its campaign orders rose sharply, Kinohimitsu faced new operational pressures. Its in-house team previously had to bring in additional workers, operate through weekends, and often work past midnight to pack orders during peak periods. Many of its products also come in canisters that require careful packing to prevent damage, adding to the manpower and attention needed to fulfil each order.
In January 2026, Kinohimitsu moved the fulfillment of all its Shopee orders to Fulfilled by Shopee, the platform’s integrated fulfilment solution which covers inventory storage, picking, packing, and delivery. This also includes the careful packing required for Kinohimitsu products sold in canisters. Fulfilled by Shopee played a key role in the brand’s fulfilment operations during the 9.9 Super Shopping Day campaign in 2026, when Kinohimitsu’s daily orders soared by more than five times.
Since adopting the service, Kinohimitsu has brought down its average order fulfilment time by over 40 per cent, from around 20 hours to under 12 hours. It has also reduced the need to secure additional temporary manpower during major campaigns, easing operational complexity and overhead while allowing the business to scale more efficiently.
“Fulfilled by Shopee has given us a more scalable way to manage sharp increases in demand during major campaigns and get orders to customers faster,” said Chong. “We have seen consistently reliable service, including positive customer feedback on faster deliveries, with some orders placed at night arriving the following morning. More importantly, it allows our team to focus less on fulfilment complexity and more on what we do best—building our brand, innovating products, and serving our customers.”
Engaging Customers and Driving Sales
As its online business grew, Kinohimitsu began using Shopee Live to introduce its products, explain product formats and usage, and answer shoppers’ questions in real time. During the 9.9 campaign in 2026, Shopee Live contributed to approximately half of Kinohimitsu’s total orders.
Kinohimitsu also engages Shopee affiliates to promote its products through creator content. Performance data from these collaborations helps the team understand which creators drive stronger results, informing how it allocates samples and resources during major campaigns. The brand has also developed repeat partnerships with trusted creators, helping it reach highly engaged beauty and wellness audiences.
Looking ahead, Kinohimitsu is exploring the Shopee International Platform as a way to expand into Thailand and the Philippines. Through the programme, participating sellers can make their listings available in selected overseas Shopee markets at no additional cost, while Shopee manages payments, logistics, and customer service. This enables Kinohimitsu to reach new buyers with minimal added complexity, scale internationally, and continue to grow its business with Shopee.
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About Shopee
Shopee is the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, and is a leading e-commerce platform in Brazil. Shopee promotes an inclusive and sustainable digital ecosystem by enabling businesses to digitalise and grow their online presence, helping more people access and benefit from digital services, and uplifting local communities.
Shopee offers an easy, secure, and engaging experience that is enjoyed by millions of people daily. Shopee is also a key contributor to the digital economy, with a firm commitment to helping homegrown brands and entrepreneurs succeed in e-commerce.
Shopee is part of Sea Limited (NYSE: SE), a global technology company. Sea’s mission is to better the lives of consumers and small businesses with technology through its three core businesses: Shopee, Garena, and Monee.
Building on its basketball partnerships announced in March, Sprite unites three-time MVP and NBA Champion Nikola Jokić with Olympic Gold Medalist and NBA superstar Anthony Edwards to lead a global movement celebrating the continuous evolution of basketball culture.
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – Today, Sprite officially unveils its new global platform, “Never Stop Refreshing the Game,” with the addition of three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić to its global basketball athlete roster alongside superstar Anthony Edwards.
Sprite is doubling down on its basketball legacy on a global stage. Earlier this year, Sprite announced its return as the NBA’s Official Global Soft Drink.
For decades, Sprite has sat at the intersection of sport, fashion, music, and culture. Since first partnering with the NBA in 1986, Sprite has remained a constant presence in basketball culture, connecting with generations of players and fans through iconic campaigns, unforgettable moments, and partnerships that reflect the sport’s evolution. From neighborhood courts to the game’s biggest stages, Sprite has continued to show up wherever basketball culture moves next.
“Sprite has a history of championing the athletes, creators and communities that shape basketball culture,” said Oana Vlad, Global Brand Vice President of Sprite. “‘Never Stop Refreshing the Game’ is about finding new ways to refresh the game for fans, from the unmistakable refreshment Sprite brings on and off the court to the experiences, stories and moments that make basketball culture so powerful. By spotlighting original voices and game changers, delivering fresh entertainment, and giving fans access to experiences they might not otherwise have, we’re committed to helping move the game forward. Nikola and Ant represent that spirit perfectly.”
Two Icons with the Drive to Keep Refreshing the Game
To ignite its next era in basketball, Sprite is bringing together two of the game’s most dynamic forces. While Nikola Jokić and Anthony Edwards represent distinct paths to greatness, they share a singular instinct: a refusal to settle and a relentless drive to evolve the sport.
Nikola Jokić, freshly named the #1 player for the 2026–27 NBA season in ESPN’s NBA Rank for the third consecutive year*, brings masterclass precision, an unselfish high-IQ playstyle, and massive international reach that bridges fans from North America to Europe and beyond.
Anthony Edwards, Olympic gold medalist and four-time NBA All Star, brings explosive athleticism, clutch shot-making, and an electric charisma that has made him the undeniable face of basketball’s next generation.
“Basketball brings people around the world together,” said three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić. “Sprite has been part of the story for decades and I’m excited to partner with them to continue bringing the game to the next generation.”
Anthony Edwardsadds: “From Anta Claus to Obey Your Thirst, Sprite’s been cooking up some of the best campaigns that will live on forever. ‘Never Stop Refreshing the Game’ is no different, reminding every player out there to give it their all and stay true to who they are every time they step on the court.”
These game-changers will star in Sprite’s global campaign. The campaign will roll out worldwide starting now and into 2027. Across the ASEAN & South Pacific region, the platform will reach fans across passionate basketball hubs including the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand– nations where basketball culture is deeply rooted in everyday life. Over the coming months, fans can expect upcoming global spots starring both Jokić and Edwards.
Bringing Fans Closer to the Game
Off the screen, fans can grab limited-edition NBA and signature Anthony Edwards and Nikola Jokić cans with scannable QR codes that unlock prizes like VIP courtside tickets, official Wilson game balls, and exclusive gear through interactive digital games. In communities worldwide, Sprite is leveling up local hoop culture by restoring neighborhood courts with vibrant “Hoops of Refreshment” murals and bringing live experiences to major events. Plus, fans can bring the energy home with NBA 2K in-game power-ups and special game-day food delivery deals.
Growing Wherever the Game Goes
By expanding its footprint across the NBA Global Games, Sprite is meeting fans where the sport is being redefined. Through immersive experiences and exclusive promotions, the brand will bring fans closer to the game, including at the NBA Mexico City Game 2026, when Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets face the Indiana Pacers, as well as the NBA Manchester and Paris Games in early 2027.
The game is changing, and Sprite is leading the play.
Watch the first campaign film here Jokes Aside. For more information, follow @Sprite on social media.
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About The Coca Cola Company
The Coca‑Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company with products sold in more than 200 countries and territories. Our company’s purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. We sell multiple billion-dollar brands across several beverage categories worldwide. Our portfolio of sparkling soft drink brands includes Coca‑Cola, Sprite and Fanta. Our water, sports, coffee and tea brands include Dasani, smartwater, vitaminwater, Topo Chico, BODYARMOR, Powerade, Costa, Georgia, Fuze Tea, Gold Peak and Ayataka. Our juice, value-added dairy and plant-based beverage brands include Minute Maid, Simply, innocent, Del Valle, fairlife and Santa Clara. We’re constantly transforming our portfolio, from reducing sugar in our drinks to bringing innovative new products to market. We seek to positively impact people’s lives, communities and the planet through water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and carbon emissions reductions across our value chain. Together with our bottling partners, we employ more than 700,000 people, helping bring economic opportunity to local communities worldwide. Learn more at www.coca-colacompany.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – The Global EMBA programme at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) has ranked second worldwide and first on the Chinese mainland in the Financial Times (FT) 2026 ranking of the world’s top 100 Executive MBA programmes. It is the only EMBA programme globally to have ranked among the world’s top two every year since 2020.
The result also marks the fifth consecutive year CEIBS has ranked first among EMBA programmes delivered by a single institution, distinguishing it from programmes jointly run by multiple business schools.
The programme performed strongly in career-related measures, ranking fourth for Aims Achieved, fifth for Current Salary, sixth for Salary Increase, seventh for Alumni Network, and eighth for Work Experience.
Co-founded by the Chinese government and the European Union in 1994, CEIBS combines an international outlook with a focus on Chinese business. As Chinese companies expand overseas and international businesses seek to navigate China’s complex market, the programme aims to equip leaders with the cross-cultural understanding and global perspective needed to operate across borders.
For those seeking a deeper understanding of China, the CEIBS Global EMBA offers a gateway to the Chinese market, while for those looking to build stronger connections between China and the world, it provides a distinctive platform for learning and collaboration.
Its global network spans more than 20 destinations across five continents, with exchange partnerships involving nine leading business schools in 10 countries. Participants come from more than 20 countries and regions, and over 35% of the latest cohort live and work outside China, with executives travelling to Shanghai from across the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
The programme’s international community extends beyond the classroom through an alumni network that connects business leaders across markets and industries, fostering cross-cultural understanding and opportunities for collaboration.
Academic excellence underpins CEIBS’ sustained performance. The school has more than 120 professors from around the world, while its case studies are used by more than 1,200 institutions across over 80 countries, extending its research and teaching to a global audience.
Founded in 1995, the CEIBS Global EMBA was the first English-language EMBA programme launched on the Chinese mainland. It continues to bring global management thinking into dialogue with Chinese business practice, preparing leaders to make informed decisions and navigate an increasingly interconnected business environment.
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HANOI, VIET NAM – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – HDBank Chairman Kim Byoungho was named one of Viet Nam’s top 10 outstanding business leaders for 2021-25, receiving the “Outstanding Vietnamese Entrepreneur – Thanh Giong (Saint Giong) Cup 2026” from the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) on October 11 in Hanoi.
HDBank Chairman Kim Byoungho was named among Viet Nam’s top 10 outstanding business leaders for 2021-25 and honoured with the “Outstanding Vietnamese Entrepreneur – Thanh Giong (Saint Giong) Cup 2026” by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry on October 11 in Hanoi. — Photo courtesy of HDBank
The award features Thanh Giong, symbolising patriotism and community unity.
The triennial programme evaluates 2021-25 business performance across governance, innovation, corporate social responsibility, and ethical standards.
As HDBank’s first foreign chairman, Mr. Kim brings nearly four decades of international financial experience.
Since Mr. Kim became chairman in April 2022, HDBank has grown strongly on every key measure.
Between end-2021 and end-2025, total assets rose 2.5 times to VND931 trillion (US$36 billion), placing the bank among the top eight in the system.
Profit before tax increased 2.65 times to VND21.3 trillion ($822.4 million), taking HDBank into the group of banks earning over VND20 trillion ($772.2 million).
Equity grew 2.54 times to VND78.3 trillion ($3 billion), and market capitalisation rose 2.4 times to VND148.7 trillion ($5.7 billion).
Return on equity improved from 23.3 per cent to 25.3 per cent, keeping HDBank at the top of the sector for several consecutive years.
Moody’s affirmed the bank at B1 with a positive outlook, while Fitch assigned BB-.
As a Korean banker, Mr. Kim has strengthened co-operation between Vietnamese and Korean financial institutions and expanded HDBank’s access to international capital, including issuance of $100 million of green bonds to IFC, FMO and BII before securing a $721 million social loan with ADB and international banks.
Under his leadership, the bank pioneered the adoption of Basel II standards in risk management in 2023 and was recognised as Viet Nam’s top five public company for Best Corporate Governance at the 2025 ASEAN Corporate Governance Awards.
In 2025, S&P Global Market Intelligence ranked HDBank first among Vietnamese banks and second for operational efficiency among Southeast Asia’s top 50 listed banks.
During 2021-25 period, the bank contributed VND16.5 trillion ($637.8 million) to the State budget and disbursed over VND42 trillion ($1.6 billion) in green credit.
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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – at Data Centre World (DCW) Singapore 2026, David AN, Director of ZTE CTO Group, delivered a keynote titled “From Data Center to AI Factory, TCO-Optimized AIDC” in the DCW Keynote Theatre. The presentation outlined how the explosive growth of AI is transforming data centers from traditional facilities into integrated AI factories, and why the industry must optimize the entire AI factory lifecycle – not individual components—to achieve sustainable total cost of ownership (TCO).
AN opened by highlighting the rapid acceleration of global computing demand. Inference now drives 70% of intelligent computing growth, while global daily token usage has increased by 1,000 times in just two years. By 2032, global data center scale is projected to reach 246 GW, with AI data centers (AIDC) accounting for 52% of that capacity. This surge is placing unprecedented pressure on power, cooling, architecture, and deployment.
“AI is pushing traditional data center architecture to its limits,” said David AN. “The industry must restructure power systems to dynamically match load demand, reduce transmission loss, and rethink how compute, power, and cooling work together. ”
The presentation identified three industry trends:
1. Power Becomes the New Bottleneck. Data center power is evolving from a single grid input to multi-energy synergy and generation-storage-distribution-consumption linkage. The system must match power with computing load in real time across day/hour, hour, minute, second, and millisecond levels. Technologies such as 800V HVDC, solid-state transformers (SST), and multi-level energy storage are essential.
2. Cooling Must Follow Compute Density. Low-density data halls (≤40 kW) can rely on air cooling with PUE ≤1.25. High-density halls (60–240 kW) require air-liquid hybrid cooling with PUE ≤1.15. Ultra-high-density AI halls (≥600 kW) demand full liquid cooling with PUE ≤1.09. Cooling must evolve alongside chip and rack trends to support the next generation of AI workloads.
3. AI Infrastructure Must Evolve at GPU Speed. Traditional site-assembled construction is too slow. The industry is moving toward modularity and prefabrication, full-unit transport, on-site assembly, and joint commissioning. With 90% MEP modularization, delivery periods can be reduced by 50%. This approach also enables phased investment, synchronized power and cooling matching, and sustained technology roadmap evolution.
ZTE’s vision is to optimize the AI factory as one system that integrates the co-design and coordination of computing, power, and cooling. This system is characterized by synergy management, energy saving, flexible adaptability, and rapid delivery. ZTE’s end-to-end AI infrastructure capabilities span power, cooling, and prefabricated data centers. Key solutions include 800V HVDC power modules, safe lithium batteries, intelligent busbars, cold-plate and immersion liquid cooling, fan walls, and fully prefabricated data centers.
With more than 20 countries, 500+ cases, 400,000 cabinets, more than 3,200MW, and 3.5 million square meters of delivered projects, ZTE has established itself as a leading end-to-end data center solution provider. Since entering the modular data center field in 2009, the company has continuously advanced prefabricated and green data center technologies, solidifying its competitive position in the global data center market.
MANILA/JAKARTA – Media OutReach Newswire – 13 October 2026 – VinFast has announced a special incentive package of up to US$60,000 for each new electric motorcycle showroom opened by its dealer partners in the Philippines and Indonesia. The program is designed to help local businesses tap into the strong growth potential of the electric motorcycle market, while making VinFast’s smart electric motorcycles more accessible to consumers.
A VinFast e-motorcycle showroom at SM Mall of Asia in the Philippines, part of the company’s growing dealer network across Southeast Asia.
Under the program, dealer partners that open new VinFast electric motorcycle showrooms in the Philippines and Indonesia by December 31, 2026, will receive basic support of up to US$40,000 per location, depending on the showroom’s size, floor area, and dealership standards. Showrooms that open by October 31, 2026, will qualify for an additional incentive of up to US$5,000 per location. Finally, partners that open three or more stores will also receive an additional incentive of up to US$15,000 per location.
The program is designed not only to create new business opportunities for dealer partners, but also to encourage more consumers to switch to greener transportation and help protect the environment. Through this initiative, VinFast continues to advance its goal of accelerating the shift toward greener, cleaner, and quieter mobility.
VinFast is committed to providing dealer partners with comprehensive support, from business consulting and marketing strategies to professional training, helping them get their operations up and running quickly. This support will also ensure that dealerships across the network follow VinFast’s standards for brand identity, showroom design, operating procedures, and customer service.
By joining the VinFast network, partners will have the opportunity to offer high-quality battery-swapping electric motorcycles that are safe, reliable, environmentally friendly, and suited to a wide range of customer needs, initially including the Evo, Feliz II, and Viper. Partners can also benefit from VinFast’s supporting infrastructure, including its continuously expanding service and warranty facilities, as well as support policies for service workshops. This will provide a solid foundation for dealer partners to confidently deploy services, enhance the customer experience, and strengthen the competitiveness of their products in the market.
Ms. Vo Thi Cam Tu, Managing Director of VinFast E-scooter Overseas Markets, said: “Expanding our dealer network is an important part of VinFast’s strategy to build an electric motorcycle ecosystem in international markets. We are looking to partner with businesses that share our long-term vision for green mobility, while giving dealers the support they need to make the most of their strengths within the VinFast network. From developing showrooms to running day-to-day operations and serving customers, VinFast will continue to work closely with our partners to build a stronger electric motorcycle network.”
The expansion of the electric motorcycle dealer network is part of VinFast’s broader plan to expand its distribution network in the Philippines and Indonesia, with the company targeting hundreds of stores in the two markets, respectively, by the end of 2026. As of September 2026, VinFast has 63 electric motorcycle dealerships operating in Indonesia and the Philippines. Going forward, VinFast will continue to expand its presence and bring its electric vehicle products and services closer to consumers across Southeast Asia, supporting the region’s transition to greener, smarter, and more modern mobility./.
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