BEIJING, Dec 19 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — China on Thursday launched island-wide special customs operations in south China’s Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), the world’s largest FTP by area, allowing freer entry of overseas goods, and expanded zero-tariff coverage and more business-friendly measures. Hearing a work report on the FTP in early…

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 (Bernama) — Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNIRAZAK) held its 24th Convocation Ceremony on 13th December 2025 at the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur, celebrating the academic achievements of more than 1,500 graduates under the convocation theme “Breaking Through”. To accommodate the large graduating cohort, the ceremony was conducted in…

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 (Bernama) — At its 24th Convocation Ceremony today, Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNIRAZAK) celebrated a leader whose life story reflects courage, integrity, and nation-building at its most profound. UNIRAZAK proudly conferred the Honorary Doctorate in Management upon His Excellency The Governor of Sarawak, Tun Pehin Sri Dr. Haji…

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 18 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Movement Network today announced its partnership with KAST, the mobile-first payment platform that makes spending crypto as easy as using any payment card anywhere in the world. This partnership marks a major milestone in Movement’s mission to build the People’s Chain: a blockchain designed to solve…

TOKYO, Dec 18 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Kioxia Corporation today announced that its 2.5-inch KIOXIA CM7 Series Enterprise PCIe® 5.0 NVMe™ 2.0, KIOXIA CD8P Series Data Center PCIe 5.0 NVMe 2.0 and KIOXIA CD8 Series Data Center PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 SSDs have been successfully tested for compatibility and interoperability with the Adaptec® SmartRAID 4300…

NEW YORK & SINGAPORE, Dec 18 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, today announced it has surpassed $1 trillion in traded volume this year in Emerging Markets (EM) debt.¹’² Since 2000, MarketAxess has pioneered electronic trading in EM, building a…

NEW YORK, Dec 18 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — INVNT, the innovation-led global brand storytelling agency, announced the appointment of James Nicholas Kinney as its first Global Chief AI Officer, a role designed to bring new AI-powered solutions directly to clients while expanding the agency’s AI ecosystem and strengthening its data, insights, and…

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 (Bernama) — CIMB Group Holdings Berhad (“CIMB” or “the Group”) today announced its commitment to develop tokenised financial services spanning tokenised assets, tokenised settlement and next-generation payment rails, supporting Malaysia’s national agenda to broaden adoption of tokenisation across the financial ecosystem. The various initiatives will be rolled…

CEBU CITY, Philippines, Dec 18 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Is your Southeast Asian Business ready for 2026 U.S. market entry? The window of opportunity for SEA companies to build a commercially meaningful presence in the United States in 2026 continues to widen as companies in the region look to de-risk and diversify…

KAWASAKI, Japan, Dec 18 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has launched “TCD2400DG,” a lens-reduction type[1] CCD[2] linear image sensor developed expressly for line scan cameras[3] used in visual inspections. Shipments start today.Image inspection equipment that integrates line scan cameras, including color sorters, is used in diverse applications, among them sorting…