Eco Expo Asia Opens at AsiaWorld-Expo in Late October to Promote Green Technologies

 

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HONG KONG, Oct 14 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- The 20th edition of Eco Expo Asia, themed Green Innovations for Carbon Neutrality, will be held from 28 to 31 October at AsiaWorld-Expo, attracting over 300 exhibitors from 12 countries and regions. The Expo will spotlight three key areas – Circular Economy and Waste Management, Green & Smart Mobility, and ESG-related Services, presenting diverse solutions for environmental protection and fostering green business opportunities.

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HKTDC Deputy Executive Director Jenny Koo said: “As a business platform for ESG and sustainable solutions, the Expo will showcase the latest products and technologies in new energy, green living and environmental protection. This year, Eco Expo Asia will attract over 300 exhibitors from 12 countries and regions, with strong participation from government suppliers from the Chinese Mainland, as well as from ASEAN and Belt and Road countries, helping industries worldwide seize the vast opportunities created by the green economy.”

Highlight event, Eco Asia Conference, will bring together global officials and experts to exchange insights on pressing environmental issues. Other activities include the FHKI Q-Mark Low Carbon Restaurant Award 2025, 6th Hydrogen Economy Forum and Experience Sharing Forum. The last day of the Expo on 31 October will be a Public Day, with complimentary admission for the general public. Visitors can participate in a series of seminars and green workshops. 

Register Now for FREE admission - https://tinyurl.com/4y5aymt7

Website: www.ecoexpoasia.com 

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Media enquiries:
Please contact HKTDC's Exhibitions Department:
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Tel: (852) 2240 4136 / 2240 4865
Email: ken.mc.tsang@hktdc.org / samson.ph.kong@hktdc.org

Source : Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC)

Denodo Platform 9.3 Now Available with Breakthrough Support for AI Innovation

Platform enhancements, including the release of Denodo DeepQuery, solidify Denodo as a foundation for AI

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept 17 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Denodo, a leader in data management, announced further support for AI innovation with the availability of DeepQuery in Denodo Platform 9.3. DeepQuery is a Deep Research capability that extends beyond fact-based retrieval to tackle complex, analytical questions with detailed, fully explained reasoning. 

Denodo Platform Enhancements 
The latest release of the Denodo Platform, 9.3, solidifies Denodo as a foundation for AI innovation. Many of today’s AI workloads are operational, involving such use cases as chatbots that can respond to prompts based on live data, and AI agents that take action autonomously and make real-time decisions in response to live situations. This requires bi-directional, real-time access to high volumes of live data from original sources, in an ever-expanding, distributed data landscape, while also protecting data consistent security and compliance measures and reducing costs. A recent MIT study found that 95% of AI projects are not delivering positive ROI, and a key reason is the inability for the AI to learn and correctly act in ever-changing operating environments due to the lack of a data infrastructure that can support such workloads. Denodo Platform 9.3 adds several new features that strengthen its foundation for operational AI. Key enhancements include:

· Greater Agility for Materialized Views: Materialized views and data caches are now resilient to schema evolution, enabling developers to perform data-product change management with greater agility, to more effectively equip AI applications with the data they need. This is critical in environments where AI agents and applications are iterating quickly, and their underlying schemas and other metadata are constantly changing. This capability also accelerates incremental updates to data lakehouses, so lakehouse-resident data stays AI-ready.
· Dynamic Access Controls: These new controls enable on-demand lookups of data access policies, for much greater agility in dynamic, operational environments where privacy and security needs frequently change.
· Auto-Generation of Business Context: In keeping with the Denodo Platform’s emphasis on enriching AI with relevant business metadata, Denodo Assistant now auto-generates metadata tags and attributes that specify business context, and the latest release now automatically generates and updates metadata embeddings in a vector database (PGVector). This accelerates the adding of business context, which is necessary for making data AI-ready, and it will also enable faster iterations of business context as it evolves.
· Write-Back to Iceberg Tables through Databricks Unity: For organizations with a Databricks lakehouse-centric data architecture, Denodo now lets you build AI agents and other applications that can write back to Iceberg tables managed by Databricks Unity, for optimized performance in frequently-changing Databricks environments.

Together with the Denodo Data Marketplace’s business-user self-service experience, introduced in Denodo Platform 9.2, Denodo now provides an unmatched enterprise data foundation that meets the real-time business-contextual needs of both people and AI applications.

“Denodo is gaining momentum in the AI-powered data management space, to keep pace with rapid changes,” said Alberto Pan, chief technology officer (CTO) at Denodo. “Organizations need to navigate dynamic operational environments that cut across traditional network and storage boundaries, and the Denodo Platform provides a way to quickly accommodate these new fast-moving use cases around AI-ready and business-ready data, in this often volatile context.”

Denodo Releases DeepQuery
Denodo DeepQuery, the multi-agent deep research capability that was pre-announced in July, is now generally available on GitHub. With DeepQuery, AI developers can run complex, multi-step, context-aware queries driven by open-ended questions, like uncovering the sources of churn or identifying the key drivers of customer loyalty across a variety of different systems. DeepQuery delivers explainable, real-time insights in minutes, which would normally take a skilled data analyst multiple days to produce.

DeepQuery provides the AI and developer communities with open-source access to Denodo’s deep research capability. Building on Denodo’s semantic layer and AI SDK, DeepQuery dynamically determines what data is needed, fetches a view of it in real time, and orchestrates complex retrieval and reasoning workflows.

Benefits include: 

·  Smarter AI interactions: Enables AI agents to iteratively refine questions and logic, to deliver more accurate, context-rich responses
·  Comprehensive data governance and security: Keeps AI-driven queries aligned with enterprise policies, masking, and access controls
·  Open-source flexibility: Available under an Apache license, enabling customization and community contributions 

These advances are already being recognized across the industry. “At Sigmasoft, we’ve been closely watching Denodo’s innovation in enterprise AI—including Denodo DeepQuery’s deep-research capabilities,” said Shivaji Basu, chief AI officer at Sigmasoft, a Denodo partner. “With its general availability, we're excited to collaborate and help clients unlock explainable, cross-system business insights at enterprise scale. This is the kind of AI maturity that empowers decision-makers with both speed and confidence.”

The success of this and other partners, as well as the success of Denodo’s diverse customer base, reinforce Denodo’s leadership in making enterprise AI not only possible, but practical, governed, and impactful.

About Denodo
Denodo is a leader in data management. The award-winning Denodo Platform is the leading logical data management platform for transforming data into trustworthy insights and outcomes for all data-related initiatives across the enterprise, including AI and self-service. Denodo's customers in all industries all over the world have delivered trusted AI-ready and business-ready data in a third of the time and with 10x better performance than with lakehouses and other mainstream data platforms alone. For more information, visit denodo.com.

Media contacts
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SOURCE: Denodo Technologies Inc. (“Denodo”)

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2025 Tomorrow.City Shanghai Opens, Spotlighting Global Smart City Innovation

SHANGHAI, Sept 17 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2025 Tomorrow.City Shanghai (TCS 2025) opened at Zhangjiang Science Hall under the theme “Challenge and Solution”.

With its expanded scale, TCS 2025 welcomed delegations from more than 110 cities across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Discussions centered on four key domains: Tomorrow.Technologies, Tomorrow.Mobility, Tomorrow.Environment, and Tomorrow.Utilities. Over 100 exhibitors presented cutting-edge solutions, showcasing China’s growing leadership in smart city innovation while creating new avenues for international collaboration. The agenda featured 20 Industry Roundtables, 32 City Shows, and more than 40 Closed-Door Meetings aimed at driving knowledge exchange and accelerating project implementation.

The event also hosted the ceremony of Region & China Smart City Awards. These awards highlight Asia’s most impactful practices in digital transformation, low-carbon transition, and public service innovation. Among the eight winners of Best Projects（X-SDI）Award are Department of Town and Country Planning (PLANMalaysia), Malaysia Sepang Municipal Council, Thailand Chonburi City Municipality, along with Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Oman, the UAE, and China. The Leadership Awards - Leader distinction was conferred on Principal Architect of Thailand’s Smart City Capacity-Building Programs and member of the Core Execution Team.

At the opening ceremony, international delegates emphasized the role of innovation in shaping resilient, sustainable cities. The launch of Tomorrow.City Community Shanghai marked the first physical hub of the global network, providing a trusted platform for collaboration and project acceleration. Complementing this milestone, the Collaboration List of City Challenges & Opportunities was released together with 16 international cities, outlining priority areas such as smart governance, green transition, and infrastructure renewal to foster deeper global partnerships.

A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/d7ad8754-c40d-49dc-ae37-22b7e8e9ab05

Cindy Wang
cindy.wang@tomorrow-city.com

SOURCE: Tomorrow City Shanghai

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Global Religious Leaders Call for Peace and Support the Two-State Solution

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Second International Summit of Religious Leaders, themed “The Role of Religious Leaders in Resolving Conflicts”, brought together 400 global religious leaders and concluded on August 28, 2025, in Kuala Lumpur, organized by the Prime Minister’s Office of Malaysia and the Muslim World League (MWL).

Participants strongly condemned the war and starvation in Gaza, urging governments and religious leaders worldwide to take immediate action to halt the crisis and to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to comply with international law, ensure the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, and establish their independent state in accordance with relevant international resolutions.

The summit reaffirmed its support for the final document of the High-level International Conference on the Peaceful Settlement of the Palestinian Question and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, hosted by Saudi Arabia and France at the UN in New York. The religious leaders pledged to mobilize their spiritual and societal influence to rally support for the document.

In his opening address, H.E. Dato’ Sri Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, stressed that the Gaza crisis has revealed a profound loss of the international community’s commitment to justice and humanity. He affirmed that all religions call for the promotion of compassion and coexistence, warning against the dangers of “Clash of Civilizations” theories.

For his part, H.E. Sheikh Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, stated that the summit convenes at an exceptional moment in modern history, underscoring that peace is not merely an option but a necessity for the survival of humanity and for the credibility of the United Nations Charter. He highlighted the pivotal role of religious leaders in shaping the conscience of societies and advancing universal human values.

Dr. Al-Issa further announced two initiatives: strengthening the spiritual and moral role of religious leaders, and protecting minorities in countries with religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

Through five sessions, the summit addressed critical themes including religiously motivated conflicts and their root causes; the role of religious diplomacy in supporting peaceful settlements; and the tragedy in Gaza as an international failure.

The Muslim World League (MWL) is an international NGO based in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, founded in 1962. With members from all Islamic countries and sects, it seeks to clarify the true message of Islam.

Photo: https://www.themwl.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_img760x1100/public/img_1157_0.jpeg?itok=FUdXjnUv


Media Contact:
Malaysia Office – Muslim World League
https://themwl.org/ar
malaysia@themwlx.org

SOURCE: Muslim World League Malaysia

CHINESE PRESIDENT XI EMPHASISES FRIENDSHIP, COOPERATION AND MULTILATERALISM AT TIANJIN SUMMIT - CGTN

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 (Bernama) -- According to an article by China Global Television Network (CGTN), Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a series of bilateral meetings with foreign leaders on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin, underscoring China’s support for friendship, practical cooperation and multilateralism.

The summit, held from Aug 31 to Sept 1, marks the fifth time China has hosted the event. This year’s gathering is the largest in the SCO’s history, drawing leaders from over 20 countries and heads of 10 international organisations.

CGTN in a statement said President Xi met with several visiting leaders, including Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Myanmar’s Acting President Min Aung Hlaing, and Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

In discussions, Xi reaffirmed China’s commitment to strengthening bilateral relations with these countries, citing historical ties and ongoing cooperation. Leaders also discussed development initiatives under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including projects in infrastructure, energy, and trade.

In his meeting with Egyptian Prime Minister Madbouly, Xi expressed support for aligning the BRI with Egypt’s “Vision 2030”, particularly in the areas of green energy and industrial cooperation. Talks with Cambodia focused on two key joint projects, namely the Industrial and Technological Corridor and the Fish and Rice Corridor.

China also expressed readiness to enhance development coordination with Kazakhstan and deepen regional economic integration through existing and new connectivity platforms.

Over the past five years, trade between China and other SCO members has surged, hitting a record US$512.4 billion in 2024. (US$1=RM4.22)

CGTN’s recent poll showed that over 85 per cent of respondents in SCO countries believe China's BRI has achieved remarkable results in promoting connectivity and high-quality development among SCO member states.

In a meeting with the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres, President Xi reiterated China’s position on the importance of multilateralism and the central role of the UN in maintaining global peace and development.

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GLOBAL INVESTORS HEAD TO XIAMEN FOR 25TH CIFIT AMID RISING TWO-WAY INVESTMENT FOCUS

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 (Bernama) -- The 25th China International Fair for Investment & Trade (CIFIT), themed “Join Hands with China, Invest in the Future”, will be held in Xiamen, Fujian, from Sept 8 to 11, drawing high-level global attention as China reinforces its dual role in attracting and exporting capital.

According to the organising committee in a statement, this year’s CIFIT will focus on three key areas, namely "Invest in China", "Chinese Investment", and "International Investment".

The fair will feature an exhibition area of about 120,000 square metres and host over 70 specialised investment activities and more than 100 roadshows.

Nearly 100 executives from multinational corporations in the fields of energy, chemicals, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and intelligent manufacturing, as well as representatives from sovereign wealth funds and international investment institutions, have confirmed participation under the "Invest in China" segment. Additionally, over 100 "hidden champion" enterprises from Europe and Asia will join the event.

The "Chinese Investment" segment will showcase cooperation achievements and signature projects of Chinese enterprises worldwide through three zones, namely China Outbound Investment, Overseas Comprehensive Services and Silk Road Maritime.

The Ministry of Commerce will also organise chambers of commerce to release China’s Outbound Investment Activity Index for the first time. An economic and trade exchange conference between Chinese provinces and United States states will also be held.

To date, delegations from more than 110 countries, regions and international organisations have registered to attend CIFIT, with 51 countries and regions confirmed to set up exhibition booths.

The United Kingdom, as this year’s guest of honour, is expected to send a delegation of nearly 200 representatives from government agencies, businesses and associations.

As the only major national-level investment exhibition in China, CIFIT has facilitated the signing of more than 30,000 projects since its inception, cementing its position as one of the world’s most influential international investment events.

-- BERNAMA

CMA: DUNE RETURNS TO ABU DHABI'S SANDS FOR THIRD INSTALMENT

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- Abu Dhabi has returned as a principal shooting location for the next chapter in Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction saga Dune.

Media company Legendary Entertainment confirmed that production on the highly anticipated third instalment will return to Abu Dhabi’s picturesque Liwa desert with its cinematic towering sand dunes and golden expansive horizon to capture the essence of the mythical planet of Arrakis.

The new film will continue the sweeping saga of Paul Atreides and the complex legacy of this empirical rule. Filming in the desert city will begin later this year, with Creative Media Authority (CMA) Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Film Commission providing essential logistical support, and Image Nation serving as production partner.

According to CMA in a statement, the film, a continuation of the Academy Award-winning franchise from Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros Pictures, will again benefit from the cashback rebate offered by the Abu Dhabi Film Commission.

Abu Dhabi has served as the backdrop for over 180 major film and television productions through the introduction of the cashback rebate, including F1 The Movie, Mission: Impossible, Star Wars, Fast and Furious, and Sonic the Hedgehog, a reflection of the emirate’s diverse locations, talent pool, and filmmaking incentives.

The mission of the CMA is to champion content creation in Abu Dhabi by empowering content creators via strategic guidance, talent development, financial support, and a world-class regulatory environment.

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