SAPPORO, Japan, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Ferme La Terre Biei, a confectionery brand from Hokkaido loved for its Butter Cheese Sandwiches made with locally sourced ingredients, is making its Taiwan debut this winter.

Beloved for its rich butter flavor and delicate handmade texture, the brand continues to share the taste of Hokkaido’s natural bounty beyond Japan’s borders.

Taiwan Debut Pop-up Stores

Ferme la terre Biei will open two limited-time pop-up stores in Taipei this winter:

①SOGO Taipei Zhongxiao Store

• November 21–30, 2025: 1F, No. 45, Section 4, Zhongxiao East Road, Taipei City
• December 1–14, 2025: B2F, No. 45, Section 4, Zhongxiao East Road, Taipei City

②Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Xinyi Place A8

• January 5–24, 2026: B2F, No. 12, Songgao Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City

Each pop-up store will feature La Terre Biei’s signature Butter Cheese Sandwiches, along with limited-edition items that have become favorites at the brand’s flagship store in Biei.

La Terre Biei will present its signature “Butter Cheese Sandwiches” in three delightful flavors.

Double Cheese – The most popular plain flavor, combining cream cheese and mascarpone for a rich yet gently sweet taste.

Acacia Honey & Apple – A smooth cream filled with crispy apple compote and infused with Hokkaido acacia honey, offering a refreshing sweetness.

Chocolate Ganache & Chips – Made with 61% bittersweet chocolate, this indulgent flavor pairs silky ganache with crunchy chocolate chips for a playful texture.

About Ferme La Terre Biei

Ferme La Terre Biei is a confectionery brand based in Biei, Hokkaido, Japan.

With the concept of “Living Naturally,” the brand creates sweets, bread, and café menus that highlight Hokkaido’s locally sourced ingredients while minimizing additives.

La Terre Biei operates multiple stores across Hokkaido, including its flagship in Biei and its Shin-Chitose Airport “Craft Studio” location, and continues to promote the region’s food culture through sustainable craftsmanship.

Bringing the Warmth of Biei to Taiwan

La Terre Biei’s first overseas expansion marks an exciting new chapter for the brand.

In Taiwan, a market known for its deep appreciation of fine desserts and Japanese craftsmanship, the brand aims to share the authentic flavors and gentle spirit of Hokkaido.

Through these pop-up stores, La Terre Biei hopes to connect people across borders with the simple joy of natural, heartfelt sweets.

NSFOCUS is recognized for redefining cybersecurity operations through precision-driven AI innovation, intelligent automation, and global scalability.

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that NSFOCUS has received the 2025 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition in the AI-driven security operations industry for its exceptional achievements in technological innovation, strategy execution, and measurable customer impact. This recognition highlights NSFOCUS’s leadership in applying advanced artificial intelligence to transform security operations, enhancing accuracy, efficiency, and resilience in an increasingly complex global threat environment.

This recognition highlights NSFOCUS’s leadership in applying advanced artificial intelligence to transform security operations, enhancing accuracy, efficiency, and resilience in an increasingly complex global threat environment.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. NSFOCUS excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align strategic initiatives with market demand while executing them with scale and precision. According to Pranav Sahai, a Frost & Sullivan industry analyst, “NSFOCUS exemplifies how artificial intelligence can redefine modern security operations. Its NSFGPT and ISOP platforms are tangible demonstrations of innovation that bridge data, analytics, and human expertise to deliver unprecedented efficiency and accuracy. By integrating AI into the core of cybersecurity operations, NSFOCUS not only enhances defensive capabilities but reshapes how enterprises perceive and respond to digital threats.”

Guided by a forward-looking growth strategy centered on AI innovation, automation, and global collaboration, NSFOCUS has redefined the operating model for cybersecurity. Its continued investment in research and development, accounting for 27% of its annual revenue, has led to industry-defining solutions such as NSFGPT, an AI security empowerment platform that combines machine learning, threat intelligence, and expert knowledge. NSFGPT addresses alert fatigue, one of the industry’s most persistent challenges, by leveraging multi-model collaborative modeling to assign confidence levels to alerts, automate triage, and escalate complex threats to human analysts. This synergy between machine intelligence and human expertise achieves a 97% alert noise reduction rate, accelerating incident response times to under 30 minutes.

Complementing NSFGPT, the company’s ISOP platform integrates SIEM, XDR, and SOAR capabilities into a unified, AI-empowered framework for detection, investigation, and response. By automating repetitive workflows and dynamically generating tailored response strategies, ISOP enables organizations to reduce manual interventions by up to 70%. Together, these platforms embody NSFOCUS’s mission to transform cybersecurity into an intelligent, adaptive, and continuously evolving discipline.

NSFOCUS ISOP deeply integrates AI capabilities into the entire security operation process, forming a collaborative “operation hub + AI base” model. It achieves significant value enhancement in alarm handling, threat defense, operational efficiency, and other key areas, while also adapting to multi-industry scenarios. This combination perfectly addresses the pain points of alarm overload and low signal-to-noise ratio in traditional security operations. After integrated application, it enables the full-process efficient operation of threats from discovery to disposal. It can reduce the threat response time to 30 minutes and realize end-to-end automated response for over 40% of security incidents.

In addition, Fengyunwei’s precise identification capability for “known families, unknown variants” of attacks complements the limitations of ISOP’s traditional detection methods, jointly breaking through the bottleneck of unknown threat detection.

The integration of AI capabilities into all key links of security operations not only lowers the operational threshold but also optimizes decision-making scientificity. This collaborative model continuously accumulates disposal experience and solidifies it into automated paradigms, constantly reducing reliance on manual work. It drives the security operations center (SOC) to gradually evolve towards an advanced stage of autonomous operation, completely innovating the traditional manual-dependent security operation model.

NSFOCUS’s agility and integration capabilities have accelerated its global expansion across finance, telecommunications, and energy sectors. Strategic partnerships with AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud have enabled elastic scaling, real-time threat mitigation, and compliance automation. These alliances have yielded measurable customer outcomes, such as a 40% reduction in compliance costs and 70% faster certification timelines for regulated industries. NSFOCUS’s seven global scrubbing centers provide 7T DDoS protection with 10-minute response times, demonstrating the company’s operational maturity and responsiveness.

At the core of NSFOCUS’s competitive strategy lies a commitment to continuous learning and ecosystem collaboration. The company fosters cross-functional task forces and innovation labs that integrate real-time operational data with AI model refinement, ensuring sustained performance optimization. This approach reduces false positives, improves accuracy, and enhances decision-making efficiency across all security layers.

Frost & Sullivan commends NSFOCUS for setting a new benchmark in strategic foresight, AI innovation, and customer-centric delivery. Its focus on scalable value creation—combining cost efficiency with high-performance security operations—has redefined the global cybersecurity landscape. Through continuous AI model enhancement and human-machine collaboration, NSFOCUS demonstrates how precision, intelligence, and adaptability can deliver tangible outcomes at scale.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition to a company that demonstrates outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in market share, customer satisfaction, and competitive positioning. The recognition celebrates organizations that are not only innovating within their industries but are shaping the direction of future growth through strategic excellence.

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About NSFOCUS
NSFOCUS, Inc., a pioneering leader in cybersecurity, is dedicated to safeguarding telecommunications, Internet service providers, hosting providers, and enterprises from sophisticated cyberattacks.
Founded in 2000, NSFOCUS operates globally with over 4000 employees at two headquarters in Beijing, China, and Santa Clara, CA, USA, and over 50 offices worldwide. It has a proven track record of protecting over 25% of the Fortune Global 500 companies, including four of the five largest banks and six of the world’s top ten telecommunications companies.
Leveraging technical prowess and innovation, NSFOCUS delivers a comprehensive suite of security solutions, including the Intelligent Security Operations Platform (ISOP) for modern SOC, Volumetric DDoS Protection, Continuous Threat Exposure Service (CTEM) and Web Application and API Protection (WAAP). All the solutions and services are augmented by the Security Large Language Model (SecLLM) and other cutting-edge research achievements developed by NSFOCUS.

BEIJING, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — China’s leading tyre manufacturer Sailun Group Co., Ltd. has been granted the certificate of membership in the the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

Guided by the “eco+” sustainable development strategy, the group has formulated clear goals and a sound governance system, which enable it to make consistent breakthrough in technological innovation, energy conservation and carbon emission reduction, and digital and intelligent manufacturing.

The group’s self-developed “liquid gold” tyre, powered by the world’s advanced chemical rubber curing technology, successfully overcomes the industry’s long-standing challenge, realizing a green and low-carbon leap in the entire life circle of the tyre products.

At the same time, the group continues to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in the manufacturing process, and actively promote clean energy products. It has launched sedan tyres produced with up to 75 percent sustainable materials, truck tyres and passenger vehicle tyres with up to 80 percent sustainable materials, showing a strong commitment to green manufacturing.

Sailun Group’s outstanding ESG (environmental, social, and governance) performance has won it high recognition internationally, driving its MSCI ESG rating rising to A level; EcoVadis granting it a silver medal; and CDP giving it B-rating in terms of climate change and water safety, making it one of the leading tyre companies in the industry.

After joining the WBCSD, Sailun Group will actively participate in the research and discussion of cutting-edge topics of the global tyre industry and explore and implement solutions for AI digital and intelligent transformation, green materials innovation and recycling economy. It is dedicated to providing “China wisdom” and “Sailun power” for realizing global sustainable development goals.

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Platform sees exceptional scale of promotion and daily transactions 
Merchant growth accelerates through Alibaba’s comprehensive consumption ecosystem

HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Fliggy, a leading online travel platform and wholly-owned subsidiary of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988), delivered stellar performance during this year’s Double 11 Global Travel Festival. Driven by Alibaba’s comprehensive consumption ecosystem, Fliggy’s overall gross merchandise value (GMV) for fulfilled travel transactions surged by 30% year-on-year as of midnight on November 14.

“The strong results of Double 11 create mutual value: consumers enjoy exceptional prices while merchants see sustainable growth,” said Zhuoran Zhuang, CEO of Fliggy. “This success reflects the need for a sophisticated platform that efficiently connects premium supply with evolving demand.”

Stronger demand fuels platform growth

User engagement and spending power during this year’s event continued to rise, with the number of participating users increasing by over 20% year-on-year. 88VIP members – Alibaba’s premium paid membership program – grew by approximately 30%, contributing more than 70% of top merchants’ sales.

Consumers placed over six million promotional products, which included nearly one million flight passes, nearly three million hotel packages, and over two million attraction tickets and leisure packages, signifying substantial growth across all categories. GMV for promotional items already redeemed or utilized grew over 30% year-on-year by the end of the promotional period, indicating heightened consumer confidence and purchase intent.

A flourishing ecosystem enhances merchant success

Both established brands and niche category leaders thrived during this year’s event. The total number of merchants generating over RMB10 million in GMV grew by approximately 30% year-on-year, with the number of travel agencies in this category surging by an impressive 160%. Small and medium-sized merchants participating in Double 11 for the first time also demonstrated notable growth, with several exceeding RMB1 million in sales.

Major brands – including China Southern Airlines, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan Airlines (JAL), Marriott International, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, New Century Tourism Group, Wanda Hotels & Resorts, Chimelong Tourist Resort, Shanghai Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, and Shapotou Tourist Resort – all surpassed RMB100 million in GMV for promotional items, with the highest nearing RMB1 billion.

The expansion of content-driven marketing channels significantly amplified visibility for merchants, as GMV for promotional items from the platform’s official livestream matrix increased by nearly 70% year-on-year, with the number of promotional products exceeding RMB10 million doubling compared to last year.

Innovative travel experiences reshape consumer choices

Fliggy’s “Buy Now, Plan Later” model continued to gain traction among consumers seeking experiential luxury. Outbound travel promotional products accounted for nearly half of total orders, reflecting sustained appetite for international experiences. Inbound tourism products – newly introduced during this Double 11 – posted remarkable results, with GMV for promotional products surging by more than fivefold compared to peak travel seasons earlier this year. This underscores China’s growing allure for international travelers amid evolving visa policies and enhanced destination marketing.

Fliggy’s Double 11 serves as a barometer for emerging travel trends. This year, Northern Lights enthusiasts flocked to Murmansk, Russia – a more accessible and cost-effective alternative to traditional Scandinavian routes – generating over RMB2 million in GMV for promotional items. Meanwhile, New Zealand’s glacier tours, featuring helicopter sightseeing and ski plane experiences, exceeded RMB60 million in GMV for promotional items. International cruises, providing all-inclusive and culturally immersive journeys, showcased a single promotional item that generated nearly RMB70 million in sales.

“Our capabilities are tested in the market every Double 11,” Zhuang added. “We will continue to lean into Alibaba’s ecosystem and technology to provide consumers with simplified experiences and a wider array of choices, while empowering quality merchants and newcomers alike.”

About Fliggy

Fliggy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988 (HKD Counter) and 89988 (RMB Counter)), and is one of the leading online travel platforms in China. Fliggy places a strong emphasis on innovation in its products and services, catering to the increasingly personalized and diversified needs of consumers in both China and overseas markets.

Leveraging Fliggy’s advantage as part of the Alibaba ecosystem, merchants can benefit from the vast user base within the Group. Fliggy also collaborates with partners through a full-service management format, helping more merchants, especially small and medium-sized ones, easily and efficiently share opportunities enabled by digitalization.

Fliggy’s long-term strategy is to promote the digital transformation of the tourism industry, using an open platform and mechanisms to help the industry make better use of digital business infrastructure for their operations.