In Luang Prabang’s Chomphet district, Ai Oun Farm stands as proof that determination can change the course of a life.
Baidu Wenku and Netdisk Launch GenFlow 2.0, Deploying Over 100 AI Agents Simultaneously
BEIJING, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Baidu Wenku and Netdisk, Baidu’s AI-powered productivity apps, have introduced GenFlow 2.0, a general AI agent featuring more than 100 parallel agents working in collaboration and real-time pause-and-intervene control. Since its debut, GenFlow 2.0 has gained rapid traction with its innovative architecture.
Built on Baidu Wenku’s proprietary Multi-Agent Parallel Architecture, GenFlow 2.0 cuts complex task processing from hours to under three minutes by orchestrating more than 100 AI agents simultaneously — delivering unmatched speed and scalability compared with current solutions. Tasks such as drafting a full marketing campaign, designing accompanying visuals, and preparing a conference presentation can now be completed in a single, continuous workflow in minutes.
Unlike most AI agents that operate as black boxes where users only see inputs and final outputs, GenFlow 2.0 gives users full control during execution — allowing tasks to be paused at any stage, instructions modified, and results edited — providing a highly transparent and controllable human-AI collaboration experience.
To ensure accuracy and depth, GenFlow 2.0 autonomously accesses Baidu Scholar’s 680 million peer-reviewed academic publications, Baidu Wenku’s 1.4 billion professional documents, and user-approved Baidu Netdisk files. Combined with the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and multi-agent cross-validation, GenFlow 2.0 reduces hallucinations and delivers exceptional accuracy and reliability.
GenFlow 2.0 supports an expansive range of multimodal outputs, including copywriting, visual design, slide creation, research report generation, animation production, and coding. Baidu Wenku’s 97 million monthly active AI users—home to the world’s largest AI-powered PPT user base—demonstrate the platform’s proven execution stability and output quality.
Now fully integrated into Baidu Wenku and Baidu Netdisk, which serve over one billion users, GenFlow 2.0 is also MCP-compatible and natively embedded at the OS level on leading Chinese smartphone brand HONOR — enabling seamless access across devices.
While foundation model capabilities are important, long-term leadership will increasingly rely on engineering execution and product innovation. GenFlow 2.0 stands out with rapid product iteration, deep localization, and precise market alignment, enabled by its multi-agent architecture and uniquely controllable interaction model.
For more information about GenFlow 2.0, please visit wenku.baidu.com.
Regent Hong Kong Celebrates Prestigious Win as “Best Brand Hotel” at Virtuoso Travel Week 2025
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HONG KONG, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Regent Hong Kong is thrilled to announce its recognition as the “Best Brand Hotel” at the 2025 Virtuoso Travel Week, held in Las Vegas from August 9–15. This distinguished award, determined by Virtuoso’s global network of esteemed travel agencies, advisors, and preferred partners who set the benchmark in luxury travel, highlights Regent Hong Kong’s unrivaled service, inspired design, and its role as a beacon of refined hospitality along Victoria Harbour.
Perched on the edge of Victoria Harbour, Regent Hong Kong has redefined modern luxury since its transformative relaunch in 2023. Designed by visionary Chi Wing Lo, the hotel seamlessly blends serene interiors with breathtaking views of Hong Kong’s iconic skyline, offering guests a tranquil haven amidst the city’s vibrant energy.
“Virtuoso Awards celebrate those who are shaping the future of luxury travel through integrity, outstanding service and unforgettable experiences,” said Virtuoso Chairman and CEO Matthew D. Upchurch. “These annual awards celebrate the exceptional members and partners who bring our shared purpose to life: enriching lives through human connection and the power of travel. Regent Hong Kong exemplifies the innovation, collaboration, and unwavering commitment that define our network, and they deserve to be recognized for their dedication that elevates the Virtuoso network and the industry as a whole.”
“We are deeply honoured to be named the ‘Best Brand Hotel’ by Virtuoso’s esteemed network of travel advisors,” said Michel Chertouh, Managing Director of Regent Hong Kong. “This recognition reflects the passion and professionalism of our team, who consistently craft unforgettable moments through thoughtful design, intuitive service, and curated experiences. We are grateful to our loyal guests and the global travel community for embracing our vision of discreet luxury on Victoria Harbour.”
This accolade follows a series of global honours for Regent Hong Kong, including being named the #1 City Hotel in Asia, #1 City Hotel in Hong Kong for the second consecutive year, and #14 among the world’s best hotels in the 2025 Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards readers’ survey. These achievements reflect the hotel’s unique ability to balance urban dynamism with serene luxury, offering guests Personal Havens—peaceful spaces to pause and savour the moment.
Macaron AI, the World’s First Personal Agent, Officially Launches, Ushering in the Era of Experience AI

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 18 August 2025 – Macaron AI, the world’s first Personal Agent, has officially launched, a category-defining AI product that reimagines how artificial intelligence fits into daily life, not just work faster.
Macaron AI marks a pivotal shift from productivity AI to what experts now call Experience AI—It is a companion that understands your personality, preferences, and habits to support daily life. By modeling your tastes, history, and goals, it can analyze conversations in real time and instantly create personalized mini-apps, streamlining and enhancing everyday routines.
Technology Beyond Prompts
Macaron AI introduces a new architecture built on agentic memory. Unlike prompt-based systems, its memory is trained through reinforcement learning (RL) to autonomously retrieve, summarize, and update user context across sessions. Each interaction begins with a specialized memory token, enabling Macaron AI to remember not just what was said, but who the user is.
This innovation allows Macaron AI to generate and maintain large-scale outputs—such as personalized mini-apps exceeding 100,000 lines of code—while preserving coherence and context. It also sets a new benchmark in efficiency, training a 671B-parameter model with just 48 H100 GPUs. By applying RL to both reasoning and memory, Macaron AI achieves scalable, consistent, and deeply personalized performance.
Trained to Evolve, Designed to Care
Macaron doesn’t offer “future you only watch” like a tech demo.
It delivers:
On-demand generation of real tools that respond instantly to individual needs
Ongoing relationship-building based on memory
Interactions designed to guide behavioral change
All of this is powered by RL training and Deep Memory, the foundation of a truly usable Personal Agent.
Crucially, these tools require no coding or complex setup. Macaron can instantly generate custom “mini-apps” for each user, building small, high-precision applications or tools in as little as 15 minutes.
This marks a major departure from the one-size-fits-all assistant model — Macaron is a memory bank, a programmer, and a companion that grows into whatever is needed to enrich a user’s life.
Redefining the AI Landscape
Macaron AI redefines what AI can be—not just a tool for work, but a companion for life. As the first true Personal Agent of the Experience AI era, it positions Macaron AI at the forefront of a new standard.
Hashtag: #MacaronAI
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MLK Listed on Binance Alpha, Spotlighting Its Global Loyalty Platform Potential
– MLK listed on Binance Alpha on August 16, highlighting service reliability and growth potential
– MiL.k aims to become a leading global blockchain project by offering a user-centric, differentiated service
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MiL.k Partners, the operator of the blockchain-based loyalty integration platform MiL.k, announced on August 18 that its utility token MLK has been officially listed on Binance Alpha.
Binance Alpha, a feature within the Binance Wallet that highlights promising Web3 projects, introduced MiL.k (MLK) on Binance Alpha on August 16, stating that trading competitions and other promotional events would be launched in conjunction with the listing.
MiL.k allows users to integrate and exchange reward points from various companies using blockchain technology. By resolving inconsistencies in data and policies across loyalty companies, MiL.k has set a new standard for reward utilization, driving innovation in the market. MiL.k built strong partnerships with major Korean conglomerates such as OK Cashbag (The loyalty platform of SK Group), L.POINT (The loyalty platform of Lotte Group), CU (The largest convenience store in Korea), Megabox (Top multiplex), and NOL (The No.1 online travel agency in Korea), as well as global partners like AirAsia (Global airline).
Additionally, to expand its presence in global blockchain ecosystem, MiL.k has formed strategic partnerships with leading global Web3 projects such as The Sandbox (The global metaverse) and Galxe (The Web3 super app) aiming to offer new experiences and benefits to global users.
Jayden, CEO of Milk Partners, commented, “This listing on Binance Alpha reflects our ongoing efforts to innovate the loyalty sector and grow MiL.k into a service that delivers real-world value. We will continue to focus on providing user-centered, differentiated services and evolving as a globally recognized blockchain project.”
Earlier this year, MiL.k completed a migration to Arbitrum One, a leading Ethereum Layer 2 solution, to align with the rapidly evolving Web3 environment. This move was aimed at enhancing its technical infrastructure and strengthening connectivity with the global blockchain ecosystem.
Stella International Secures ‘AA’ MSCI ESG Rating In Back-to-Back Upgrade
HONG KONG, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Stella International Holdings Limited (“Stella” or the “Group”; SEHK: 1836), a leading developer and manufacturer of quality footwear and leather goods, is pleased to announce that it has received an upgraded MSCI ESG Rating of ‘AA’, up from its previous ‘A’ rating – marking its second consecutive annual upgrade.
The MSCI rating upgrade recognises the Group’s progress in environmental performance, particularly in Raw Material Sourcing and Product Carbon Footprint management. Stella’s scores across all six key ESG issues in the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods sector now exceed the industry average, reflecting steady improvements in recent years.
In Raw Material Sourcing, MSCI identified Stella’s ongoing efforts to strengthen supply chain sustainability as a key driver, including the achievement of 100% Leather Working Group (LWG) certification among core leather suppliers in 2024. In Product Carbon Footprint, improvements were supported by enhanced data transparency and management – underpinned by the completion of annual Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon inventories with ISO 14064 certification, public disclosure of emissions data, and initiatives such as supply chain localisation to support longer-term decarbonisation.
Recognising that there is still more work ahead, the Group further strengthened its climate change commitment in 2025 by setting Near-term Science Based Targets (SBT) covering all three scopes of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These targets are currently under review by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and will be publicly disclosed once validated.
Mr. Chi Lo-Jen, Chief Executive Officer of the Group, said, “This upgrade is a testament to our enhanced sustainability disclosures and proactive management of key ESG issues, but we remain mindful that sustainability is a long-term journey. We will continue to focus on improving transparency while working closely with our partners to deliver steady, measurable progress.”
MSCI ESG Research provides MSCI ESG Ratings on global public and a few private companies on a scale of CCC (laggard) to AAA (leader), according t‑o exposure to industry-specific ESG risks and the ability to manage those risks relative to peers.
For further details on the Group’s ESG initiatives please visit our website at https://www.stella.com.hk/esg-reports.html.
About Stella International Holdings Limited
Stella International (SEHK: 1836) is a leading developer and manufacturer of quality footwear and leather goods. A trusted partner to many of the world’s most sought-after brands, it offers a unique proposition of unparalleled craftsmanship, production flexibility, and strong speed-to-market and commercialization capability, supported by a broad, diverse and proven manufacturing base across China and Southeast Asia.
Stella International was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007. It is a constituent of the Hang Seng Composite Index and the MSCI Hong Kong Small Cap Index, and eligible to be traded on the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect.
For further information, please contact:
Macy Leung
Head of Investor Relations
Email: macy.leung@stella.com.hk
Flipster Unveils the First Zero-Spread Model in Crypto Perpetuals Trading
Eliminates the hidden price gap costing traders more than they realize
PANAMA CITY, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Flipster, a fast-growing crypto perpetuals trading platform, has unveiled the industry’s first true zero-spread trading model, making it the first crypto exchange to eliminate the hidden price gap, known as the spread, that quietly drains trader profits.
With this structural shift, Flipster becomes the first exchange to offer one price execution with no markup on major perpetual pairs — delivering a new level of pricing transparency on perpetual trading that no other crypto exchange has offered.
Hidden Costs Most Traders Miss
Most exchanges charge a visible trading fee on every order. But what many traders don’t realize is that these posted fees are just part of the real cost. The bigger and often overlooked cost is the spread: the hidden gap between the price to go long and the price to go short.
When traders open a position, they cross that gap. When they close it, they cross it again. This creates a built-in round-trip cost that isn’t displayed upfront, yet quietly chips away at returns on every trade.
It adds up fast, especially for active, high-frequency or high-volume traders. In many cases, the spread can cost more than the trading fee itself.
For example, a trader placing a $100,000 trade may pay a visible fee of $50 at a 5 basis point rate. But if there’s also a 2 basis point spread, that’s another $40 in hidden cost just from entering and exiting the position. Add slippage, and the total cost can easily end up being two to three times higher than the posted fee.
Flipster eliminates this invisible markup by offering zero spreads on major pairs, fundamentally redefining how liquidity and execution are structured. It means quoting a single unified price rather than a split bid/ask, something most exchanges simply are not built to do.
Security That Matches Performance
Flipster is built with the same high-grade protection used by leading global financial institutions. The platform is ISO 27001 certified, adheres to internationally recognized security standards, and deploys multi-layer safeguards to protect user assets. Wallet security is reinforced with technology that removes single points of failure, while its 24/7 monitoring systems detect and neutralize threats in real time. With security embedded in every layer, Flipster ensures that assets remain protected through all market conditions.
The Only Exchange with Zero Spread and Active Yield
What you see is what you trade.
Zero spread on 20+ Major Perpetual Pairs. Traders access one unified market price. No markup. No hidden slippage.
Earn while you trade.
Locked or flexible, capital works without interruption. Flipster is the only exchange that lets traders earn and trade at the same time.
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About Flipster
Flipster is the zero-friction exchange for crypto traders who demand the ultimate perpetual trading experience. With ultra-tight spreads, balances that earn while trading, and up to 100x leverage, it delivers precision and performance for those who move fast and trade faster. In 2024 alone, Flipster’s trading volume grew 856% year-on-year, solidifying its position as one of the fastest-growing crypto perpetuals trading platforms. Learn more at flipster.io or follow X.
Luang Prabang Attracts Over 2.15 Million Tourists in First 7 Months of 2025
In the first seven months of 2025, Luang Prabang attracted over 2.15 million visitors, Deputy Governor Bounleua Sinxayvoravong reported at the provincial office on 15 August.
With 2,155,994 visitors in the first seven months of 2025, Luang Prabang saw an increase of 983,483 tourists, or 83.8 percent, compared to the same period last year.
The province also generated LAK 1,108 billion (approximately USD 52.76 million) in revenue, reaching 92.2 percent of its annual target.
Key attractions drawing visitors include Xiengthong Temple, Mount Phusi, Kuang Si Falls, the Royal Palace Museum, the Luang Prabang Night Market, etc
To prepare for the upcoming tourist season and the 30th anniversary celebrations of the UNESCO World Heritage Site later this year, the provincial authorities are focusing on urgent repairs and improvements, including resolving traffic bottlenecks within Luang Prabang City.
Meanwhile, Champasack Province welcomed over 426,126 visitors in the same period, generating more than USD 55 million in tourism revenue, an 8 percent increase from 2024. The province exceeded its annual visitor target of 350,958, achieving 121 percent of the planned number in just seven months.
Laos welcomed over 2.3 million tourists in the first half of 2025, up from 2.1 million during the same period last year. The country aims to surpass its 2025 target of 4.5 million visitors, building on more than 4.1 million tourists in 2024.