JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Following the outstanding success of its Vietnam debut in 2025, CMES expands to Indonesia with the inaugural CMES Indonesia International Machine Tool Exhibition, taking place July 2–4, 2026 at the Nusantara International Convention Exhibition (NICE) in Jakarta (Hall 5 & 6).

Southeast Asia’s Manufacturing Hub

As Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia is rapidly advancing under “Making Indonesia 4.0”. Metalworking is shifting from traditional casting to high-precision component manufacturing, driven by automotive, electronics, infrastructure, and new energy demand. However, the domestic machine tool industry remains nascent, with about 75% of high-end equipment reliant on imports, presenting a strategic opportunity for international suppliers.

Against this backdrop, our 15,000+ sqm exhibition will bring together leading global machinery brands, showcasing Metal Cutting Machine Tools, Metal Forming Machine Tools, Machine Tool Accessories, Grinding Tools, Industrial Automation & Robotics, etc. Serving downstream industries such as Automotive & Motorcycle Parts Manufacturing, 3C Electronics, Home & Office Appliance Manufacturing, and General Machinery, the exhibition addresses Southeast Asia’s growing demand for industrial equipment and smart manufacturing solutions.

China’s largest private exhibition organizer

As China’s largest private exhibition organizer by space, CMES brings over 24 years of experience, hosting 600,000+ sqm and 600,000+ buyers annually. For example, the 2025 Vietnam edition achieved 600M+ online exposures, 11,602 attendees, and 30,000+ business interactions.

O2O Exhibition & Media Model

With an annual marketing investment exceeding $7 million, CMES Indonesia will leverage a powerful O2O media integration strategy:

• Digital Media: Collaborating with leading global and Indonesian media including Google, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter, Kompas, Bisnis Indonesia, Jawa Pos, Media Indonesia and so on, combined with content marketing, live streaming, and videos, etc., to drive exponential brand visibility.
• Offline Visibility: Launching highway billboard and street banners at Jakarta’s key transportation hubs and industrial area prior to the exhibition to generate widespread market attention.
• Intelligent Data Matching: Leveraging smart data analytic to facilitate precise matchmaking between exhibitors, qualified buyers and decision-makers.

In addition, CMES Indonesia establish strategic partnerships with Indonesian government and leading industry associations to host high-level industry summit and International Buyer Matchmaking Meeting, creating a premier platform for driving your business growth.

Find more information:
https://cmesindonesia.expocme.cn/en
Become an exhibitor: 
https://cmesindonesia.expocme.cn/en/regExhibitor
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SHANGHAI, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MGM Shanghai West Bund opened in 2023 as the first MGM-branded city hotel in mainland China. Located in Shanghai’s West Bund area near major art landmarks such as the West Bund Museum and Tank Shanghai, the hotel has become part of the area’s cultural scene, combining art, luxury, entertainment, and its signature S.H.O.W. service.

The hotel is designed to bring art into everyday life through its “Gan Chuang” concept, which combines emotions and creativity to let guests experience art in a natural way. This concept is expressed through installations, visual details, and artistic elements that appear throughout public spaces, guest rooms, restaurants, and the spa.

Designed by HBA, the interiors mix Eastern inspiration with modern design. Warm wood tones are combined with touches of blue, green, and orange, while materials such as fabric, leather, and stone add texture and comfort. Details like handcrafted lighting and ceramic pieces give each space character.

The hotel works with artists such as Ni Zhiqi, Jeremyville, and Shan Xiaoming, each bringing a unique style—Ni Zhiqi uses his “NI Tone” colors, Jeremyville creates bold and playful visuals, and Shan Xiaoming adds symbolic forms. The hotel also supports ESG principles by partnering with artists who use recycled materials and modern versions of traditional techniques, maintaining a strong focus on sustainability and responsible design.

The property includes 161 guest rooms and 58 suites, all with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Huangpu River and the West Bund. Dining is a key part of the experience, with four venues offering different concepts: Riva serves modern Italian cuisine in an artistic setting; Royal Court focuses on authentic Cantonese dishes made with high-quality ingredients; Emerald Lounge offers an art-inspired afternoon tea; and Sky59 rooftop bar provides creative cocktails and city views. Leisure facilities include a Zen-inspired spa, a river-view fitness center, and a rooftop infinity pool, while event spaces include the West Bund Hall and flexible meeting rooms for both business and social events.

With its international ambiance and deep connection to the West Bund cultural district, MGM Shanghai West Bund is both a luxury hotel and a cultural destination—an ideal gateway for guests to discover the city’s dynamic art and creative scene.

SINGAPORE, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AI agents spend money differently from humans. They don’t browse, hesitate, or second-guess. They detect a task, select a vendor, and execute—fast, autonomous, and at scale.
The challenge is that much of today’s payment infrastructure is still designed around human workflows. Giving an AI agent a traditional corporate card can create unnecessary exposure: overly broad permissions, persistent credentials, and limited task-level controls.
FlashCard is designed to solve that gap: One mission. One authorization. Then invalidated.

1. Security by Design: Task-Bounded, Lifecycle-Controlled

FlashCard is a task-scoped virtual card model: fund for a purpose, execute, then invalidate by lifecycle rules. There is no need to leave reusable, long-lived credentials in an agent workflow.
Each FlashCard is designed to be:

• Issued for a specific task (one card, one purpose)
• Bound by predefined policy and lifecycle controls
• Invalidated after task completion or expiry
• Reconciled back to wallet balances based on settlement rules

When the task is complete, the credential is no longer reusable.
This materially reduces unnecessary credential exposure. For enterprises deploying AI agents at scale, this is the difference between controlled automation and open-ended payment risk.

2. Programmable by Default: You Define the Rules

Every FlashCard is issued with a permission profile baked in. Before the card is ever used, you define exactly what it can and cannot do:

• Merchant Category Controls (MCC)

Restrict the card to specific categories — software subscriptions only, cloud infrastructure only, travel only. An agent buying SaaS tools cannot accidentally — or maliciously — charge a casino.

• Spend Limit Controls

Set a hard ceiling per transaction and per card lifecycle. The card physically cannot exceed what you authorised. No overrides, no exceptions.

• Merchant-Level Locks

Pin a FlashCard to a specific merchant. The agent can only spend at the exact counterparty you approved — not a lookalike, not a redirect.

• Geographic and Time Restrictions

Limit where and when the card is valid. A card for a Tuesday procurement run expires Wednesday morning.

This isn’t just fraud prevention. It’s programmable financial governance — the same control layer that compliance teams have demanded for years, now native to every card issued.

3. Built for the Agentic Era: MCP, Skills, and CLI-Native

FlashCard is the card product engineered from the ground up for AI agent payment.

• MCP Server Integration

FlashCard exposes a native MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Any MCP-compatible agent — Claude, GPT, Gemini, custom LLMs — can issue, configure, and destroy FlashCards through a standardised tool interface. No custom integration. No bespoke API work. Plug in once, deploy everywhere.

• Skill and Plugin Support

FlashCard ships as a ready-to-use skill for Openclaw. Agents discover the capability, understand its parameters, and call it natively — the same way they’d call a web search or a code execution tool.

• CLI-First for DevOps and Automation

For engineering teams building agentic infrastructure, FlashCard offers a first-class CLI. Issue cards, set permissions, query balances, and trigger destruction — all scriptable, all auditable, all composable into your existing deployment pipelines.

flashcard issue –limit 500 –mcc 5734 –merchant “AWS” –ttl 24h
# Returns: card_id, virtual PAN, expiry — ready to inject into agent context
This is what “developer-first” actually means in the agentic payments context.

AI agents are already participating in real economic actions. The core question is no longer “Can they pay?” but “Can they pay in a bounded, auditable, and secure way?”
FlashCard is UQPAY’s answer: a payment primitive designed for autonomous execution, with security, programmability, and agent-native integration as first principles.
One card. One task. Greater control and auditability.

About UQPAY

Grow Your Business Borderlessly

UQPAY Group is a global fintech innovation group headquartered in Singapore, with operations spanning digital payments, Payment Software-as-a-Service, and fintech venture capital. Since its founding in 2016, UQPAY has leveraged payment innovation to build an end-to-end, secure, and compliant full-stack payment infrastructure, empowering businesses to achieve borderless growth in the digital and intelligent economy.

Amid the new economic wave driven by AI and Web3, UQPAY is positioned to deliver next-generation payment infrastructure for the programmable economy — building a real-time, scalable, and intelligently orchestrated global payment network that enables new growth models for enterprises, digital-native ecosystems, and future autonomous agents worldwide.

UQPAY holds key payment and financial licenses across Asia, Oceania, Europe, and North America, and serves as a principal member of Visa, Mastercard, and UnionPay International — the world’s three major card networks — deeply embedded in the global payment and clearing ecosystem. We connect not just transactions, but the future of global commerce and value flow.

Contact UQPAY

Website: https://www.uqpay.com/en
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LAO CAI, Vietnam, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amid the rapid growth of international education in Asia and rising demand for British-standard programmes closer to home, Ardingly College Vietnam officially announced its launch, introducing an authentic British boarding school model to Vietnam.

Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here: https://www.multivu.com/ardingly-college-vietnam/9389651-en-ardingly-college-vietnam-official-launch

This development reflects a broader trend: instead of sending children to study abroad far away, many families are choosing high-quality educational institutions within the region, where their children can receive academic standards comparable to studying abroad in Europe or North America. This trend allows students to access high-quality international education within a culturally familiar environment, while also offering greater convenience for both families and students in terms of travel, climate conditions, and ease of adaptation.

Ardingly College Vietnam is the result of a strategic collaboration between Khoi Nguyen Investment Holdings Group (KNI) and Ardingly College International Limited (ACIL), representing Ardingly College UK – a prestigious independent boarding school founded in 1858 in West Sussex. Currently, Ardingly College ranks among the top 40 best co-educational boarding schools and is the leading independent school in the UK for the quality of its International Baccalaureate (IBDP) programme.

The collaborative project follows the upgrade of Vietnam–UK relations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in October 2025, which has strengthened cooperation in education. During a high-level Vietnamese delegation visit to the UK, both parties exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding on 30 October 2025, and subsequently officially signed the cooperation agreement in West Sussex on 28 November 2025.

With a total investment of nearly VND 700 billion (equivalent to approximately £20 million) for the first phase, Ardingly College Vietnam (ACVN) boasts a modern, well-equipped campus that meets the rigorous operational standards of UK boarding schools. Ardingly College UK’s commitment to comprehensive, close, and long-term collaboration is a testament to extending its prestigious educational legacy from the UK to Vietnam.

With its official operations in Vietnam, ACVN has also become the newest member of the global Ardingly family, alongside campuses in Kazakhstan and China. The school continues to inherit Ardingly College’s educational philosophy, governance model, academic standards, and boarding operations management from the UK.

Ardingly College Vietnam offers UK-standard boarding education for boys and girls aged 11 to 18 of all nationalities. Academically, from Grade 6, students follow the Oxford International Curriculum, taught entirely by internationally qualified teachers meeting Ardingly College UK standards. From Grade 9, they enter the IGCSE pathway, and in Grade 11 and 12, they prepare for A-Levels. As an official OxfordAQA examination centre in Vietnam, ACVN students can take their IGCSE and A-Levels exams on campus.

Authentic British boarding school model with a comprehensive Pastoral Care

A defining feature of British education is its emphasis on student wellbeing alongside academic achievement. This is reflected in the Pastoral Care Policy at Ardingly College Vietnam.

Pastoral Care ensures that every student feel supported, safe and understood, covering emotional wellbeing, behaviour guidance, safeguarding and personal development. More than counseling or discipline, it is a comprehensive framework that helps students grow into confident, balanced individuals.

At Ardingly College Vietnam, Pastoral Care is integrated into daily school and boarding life, guided by a simple principle: every student has someone to turn to, and no one feels invisible.

World Ready – Preparing students for a changing world

Adopting the World Ready philosophy from Ardingly College UK, the school aims to prepare students not only for university but for life in a rapidly changing world.

Beyond academics, students engage in enrichment programmes, interdisciplinary projects and career exploration initiatives designed to foster curiosity and motivation. The programme also emphasises entrepreneurship, innovation and real-world exposure, helping students develop adaptability, critical thinking and communication skills.

Students are encouraged to become socially responsible global citizens through community engagement and exposure to diverse perspectives, while maintaining a strong sense of local identity.

Long-term Vision

Ardingly College Vietnam aims to become a leading British boarding school in Southeast Asia, attracting students from Vietnam, China, and other countries in Southeast and East Asia.

The official launch marks not only the establishment of a new institution but also a meaningful step in Vietnam’s integration into the global education landscape.

Media Contact
Ms. Nguyen Mai Anh
Email: maianh.nguyen@kninvests.com 
Tel: +84971082001

Experienced leader, Steven Xie, to serve as Executive Vice President & Managing Director, based in Malaysia

PETALING JAYA, Malaysia, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Swisslog, a global leader in automated intralogistics solutions, is strengthening the resources available to its Southeast Asian (SEA) customers through a new structure for the Asia Pacific excluding China (APeC) region.

This regional strengthening comes as Swisslog celebrates more than 30 years of operations in Southeast Asia, marking three decades of supporting the region’s logistics transformation with advanced automation solutions and local expertise.

Closer integration with Australia, New Zealand, and other Asia Pacific neighbours enables alignment across markets while strengthening Swisslog’s existing SEA service and management teams, and providing closer knowledge sharing between regions. It also provides SEA customers with direct access to expertise from across Swisslog’s broader Asia Pacific operations, including the Australia and New Zealand operations.

Swisslog’s Malaysia office already hosts one of the three global Research and Development teams, which includes strong in-house software SynQ, development, realisation and customer service expertise. This expertise will be shared with the Asia Pacific region, and SEA teams will learn from the wide range of projects being implemented in different regions.

Steven Xie to lead Swisslog APeC

The broader APeC region will be overseen by experienced leader Steven Xie, who will serve as Executive Vice President & Managing Director, based in Malaysia. Steven, who first joined Swisslog in 2017, has a hands-on approach that includes a close involvement with all countries and their teams.

“Across Southeast Asia, we are seeing increasing demand for scalable, resilient automation solutions as businesses respond to e-commerce growth, labour constraints, and rising service expectations,” says Xie.

“Bringing our markets closer together allows us to share engineering expertise, project experience, and innovation across borders. That collaboration strengthens our ability to deliver complex automation programs while maintaining the local presence our customers rely on.”

Across the APeC region, Swisslog works with major brands – including household names –  Yusen Logistics Singapore, True Thailand, Sanritsu Japan, Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) Australia, Jaycar Electronics, Blum Australia, LinFox Australia, BevChain Australia – among many others.

Futureproofing warehouse automation with whole-of-life approach

Across the region, Swisslog is rolling out its “Ready for the Next” strategy, which highlights its role as a true lifetime automation partner, not just a solution provider.

“We take an outcomes-based approach to warehouse automation. For our customers, ‘next’ isn’t about chasing new technology for its own sake – it’s about future confidence,” says Xie.

“That means delivering throughput that holds up in live production, not just during commissioning. It means designing resilience into every system so it can adjust to seasonal peaks, SKU growth, or new fulfilment models. And it means creating scalable pathways that allow capacity to expand without disruptive re-platforming.”

“Being ‘Ready for the Next’ means staying accountable for the outcome long after go-live, meaning our customers’ decisions remain right as demand, channels, and product mix evolve.”

Local insights with regional resources

Under the new APeC structure, Swisslog customers across the region will gain tangible operational advantages, including:

• Enhanced access to specialist engineering and technical expertise
• Greater collaboration across regional project teams
• Improved scalability for large and multi-site automation projects
• Shared innovation and best practice across Asia Pacific markets
• Stronger coordination across supply chains and service networks

“Successful automation depends on local insight,” says Xie. “From compliance and safety standards to labour dynamics and infrastructure considerations, every market has its nuances. Our local SEA teams remain at the forefront of customer engagement.”

“At the same time, regional alignment gives us the depth and flexibility to respond quickly to changing requirements and to support long-term growth strategies.”

“Our commitment to Southeast Asia is clear. We are locally engaged, regionally integrated, and focused on helping our customers build automation strategies that are resilient, scalable, and truly ready for what comes next.”

About Swisslog

Swisslog designs, manufactures and optimizes automated logistics solutions across the supply chain, powered by our modular SynQ software platform. With a global team of passionate employees and a portfolio of best-in-class technologies, we partner with customers from solution design through lifecycle.

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