OEMs will now have a faster path to production-ready autonomy using camera sensors, real-world testing and simulation 

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and SEOUL, South Korea, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Applied Intuition, Inc. and LG Innotek today announced a strategic partnership optimizing Applied Intuition’s Self Driving System (SDS) to work seamlessly with LG Innotek’s high-performance camera, lidar, and radar sensors, helping automakers build safe and scalable autonomous vehicles.

By combining real-world testing with simulation-based validation optimized for LG Innotek’s best-in-class sensors, Applied Intuition is now offering OEMs an expedited path to develop production-ready autonomy systems using cutting-edge hardware.

“Autonomous vehicles will only scale if the hardware and software ecosystems evolve together,” said Qasar Younis, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. “By working directly with LG Innotek, we’re making it easier for automakers to evaluate sensors, validate performance in simulation and on real roads, and ultimately move autonomy systems from development into production.”

As part of the collaboration, LG Innotek’s sensors will be deployed on Applied Intuition’s autonomous development vehicles operating across the company’s global test fleet. These vehicles operate in multiple regions, providing perception system feedback and reference data for evaluating and improving sensor performance.

In addition to real-world testing, LG Innotek will integrate digital versions of its sensors—including cameras, lidar, and radar—into Applied Intuition’s simulation environment. This will allow automakers to evaluate sensor performance in virtual scenarios during development, enabling faster iteration and reducing the engineering complexity associated with integrating sensors and autonomy software from multiple vendors.

The partnership also supports LG Innotek’s plans to strengthen its technological competitiveness in automotive autonomy. By leveraging Applied Intuition’s software platform and global operational experience in autonomy testing, LG Innotek plans to operate its own autonomous test vehicles in Korea, which is expected to significantly shorten the development timeline for its new complex sensing solutions currently under development.

“Through this collaboration with Applied Intuition, which holds world-leading software technology, we will provide customers with exceptional solutions that set a new standard in autonomous driving,” said Hyuksoo Moon, CEO of LG Innotek. “This partnership will propel LG Innotek to global top-tier status in the field of mobility robotics sensing solutions, making it a leader of the physical AI era.”

By pairing sensors and autonomy software early in the development process, the collaboration simplifies how automakers design and validate autonomous systems. This integrated approach reduces engineering overhead, dramatically shortens development timelines, and enables OEMs to bring autonomous vehicles to market more quickly.

While the initial focus is automotive, this type of tightly integrated sensing hardware and autonomy software is relevant across other industries and partnerships, and could support future applications in robotics and drones.

To learn more about how Applied Intuition is building the future of physical intelligence, visit applied.co or contact press@applied.co.

About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co.

About LG Innotek
LG Innotek Co., Ltd. is a cutting-edge materials and components manufacturer and an affiliate of the LG Group. The company is the world’s No.1 supplier of smartphone camera modules, leading innovation in mobile imaging technology. It is also at the forefront of advancing future technologies, offering core components for mobility, semiconductors, and robotics, working closely with customers to realize their visions. Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, LG Innotek has sales subsidiaries in Germany, the USA, China, Japan, and Taiwan, and production subsidiaries in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mexico, and Poland. Learn more at lginnotek.com.

SYDNEY, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Organon Asia Pacific Cluster today announced the 2026 Her Health Grant recipients for the Asia Pacific region, marking a significant milestone in efforts to strengthen and expand women’s health initiatives across the region.

The Her Health Grants are designed to support organizations that expand access, equity, and informed choice for women and girls—areas where the Asia Pacific region continues to face significant unmet needs.

This year, five not-for-profit organizations in the Organon’s Asia Pacific Cluster were successful in receiving a Her Health Grant submission, underscoring the importance of our region within Organon’s global mission, particularly in sexual, reproductive and maternal health.

This year’s grant round attracted exceptionally strong submissions from across the region, showcasing the depth of expertise, innovation, and community–led commitment to improving health outcomes for women across diverse communities. Organon congratulates all recipients for their outstanding proposals and their dedication to delivering meaningful, sustainable impact for women and girls.

Five organizations have been chosen for their strong, community–driven solutions to improving women’s health. These are:

Australia – Menopause and Eczema: Improving Care Navigation and Health Outcomes for Australian Women

Eczema Support Australia will implement a project supporting women experiencing menopause and eczema, improving care pathways and access to tailored information and support.

India – AWESOMM_HER: Awareness and Informed Decision–Making for Adolescent Girls

PSI India will support school–linked health information programs and community outreach initiatives that strengthen adolescent girls’ ability to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health.

Indonesia – REACH (Revitalizing Equitable Access and Choice for Her)

UNFPA Indonesia will focus on expanding equitable access to contraceptive options and reproductive health information for women and girls in underserved communities.

Thailand – Smart Family Planning in Action (Phase 2)

Kenan Asia will expand access to modern contraception and strengthen evidence–based family planning programs through community outreach and provider training.

Vietnam – Enhancing Access to Contraceptives and Reproductive Health Services for Women Workers in Industrial Zones

UNFPA Vietnam will work to improve contraceptive access and reproductive health services for women workers in industrial zones, who often face limited mobility and barriers to healthcare.

Speaking to the significance of this year’s announcement, Andreas Daugaard Jørgensen, Managing Director of Organon Asia Pacific, said: “With Asia Pacific receiving a significant number of the global Her Health Grant allocation, the region’s fast–growing and unmet healthcare needs are unmistakable. Practical advocacy and on–the–ground support are what drive meaningful progress for women’s health. These Her Health Grants elevate community leadership and ensure that solutions reflect the realities of the women they serve. At Organon, we listen to women and act with purpose, because healthier women and girls strengthen societies—and we are proud to partner in creating tangible, positive impact.”

Programs and activities funded by Her Health grants remain independently designed and implemented by the organizations in question.

About Organon

[Organon (NYSE: OGN) is a global healthcare company with a mission to deliver impactful medicines and solutions for a healthier every day. With a portfolio of over 70 products across Women’s Health and General Medicines, Organon focuses on addressing health needs that uniquely, disproportionately, or differently affect women, while expanding access to essential treatments in over 140 markets. 

Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, Organon is committed to advancing access, affordability, and innovation in healthcare. Follow us on LinkedIn. 

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HONG KONG, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PetroChina Company Limited [“PetroChina” or the “Company”, (HKSE: 00857; SSE: 601857)] announced that in 2025, the Company proactively responded to changes in the external environment, continuously intensified exploration and development, further propelled the transformation and upgrading of refining and chemicals, focused on improving marketing quality. The Company  deeply promoted quality and efficiency improvement, steadily advanced green and low-carbon transformation, accelerated the layout of emerging industries, distinctively strengthened innovation-driven development, led the development of new quality productive forces, and continuously improved ESG performance, further enhancing the value creation capability of the oil and gas industry chains. Despite a 14.6% year-on-year decrease in Brent crude oil prices, the Company maintained high operating results. In 2025, the Company achieved revenue of RMB 2,864.47 billion and profit attributable to owners of the Company of RMB 157.32 billion. Free cash flows reached RMB 120.19 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 15.2%. The Debt-to-Asset ratio and the Debt-to-Capital ratio stood at 36.4% and 11.2% respectively, the assets and liabilities structure was further optimized, and the financial position remained sound.

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the Company recorded cumulative profit attributable to owners of the Company exceeding RMB 700 billion, with cumulative dividend per share of RMB 2.03 and an average annual dividend payout ratio of 51%, significantly exceeding the 30% standard stipulated in the Articles of Association. In return for shareholders, the Board recommends the distribution of a final dividend of RMB 0.25 per share (inclusive of applicable taxes) for 2025, bringing the full-year dividend to RMB 0.47 per share (inclusive of applicable taxes), representing a dividend payout ratio of 54.7% and the total dividend payout of RMB 86.02 billion. Both the final and full-year dividends per share maintained the best level for the same period in history, while the payout ratio also reached its highest level in the past five years.

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Oil and gas supply capability was continuously strengthened, with new energy business accelerating development. The Company vigorously implemented advanced effective development, actively promoted a virtuous cycle of increasing reserves and production, and achieved multiple major breakthroughs and significant discoveries in Sichuan Basin, Junggar Basin, Qaidam Basin, Ordos Basin, and Songliao Basin. The Company fully tapped the potential of mature oil and gas fields, strived to improve recovery rates, and efficiently advanced the construction of key production capacity projects including Tarim Fuman and Sichuan Tianfu tight gas, completed the construction of two national-level shale oil demonstration zones in Jimsar and Daqing Gulong as well as the Qingcheng production base. Oil and gas output reached new record highs, with shale oil and coalbed methane output increasing substantially. The Company strengthened operation management of existing overseas oil and gas projects, achieving stable operation and profitable development. In 2025, the Company recorded oil and gas output of 1,841.9 MM boe, year-on-year up by 2.5%. The Company continued to refine its new energy business layout, successively completed a batch of wind and solar power key projects in Tarim Shangku and Xinjiang Altay, acquired equity in State Grid Xinyuan Company to deploy pumped storage, and established CNPC Electric Power Company to specialize in and optimize power purchase and sales business. In 2025, the Company generated 7.93 billion kWh of wind and solar power, year-on-year up by 68.0%, signed new geothermal heating contracts covering an area exceeding 100 million square meters, and completed CO2 utilization of 2.66 million tons, year-on-year up by 40.3%. The oil, gas and new energies business achieved an operating profit of RMB 136.07 billion.

Refining transformation advanced toward innovation and demonstrated positive momentum, with prominent highlights in the new materials business. The Company continuously advanced the transformation, upgrading and structural adjustment of refining and chemical operations, driving the business toward the mid-to-high end of the industry value chain. The ethylene projects at Jilin Petrochemical and Guangxi Petrochemical were completed and brought into operation, with volume of ethylene output exceeding 10 million tons for the first time. In response to market demand, the Company continuously optimized production operations and product structure, endeavored to raise the proportion of high value-added products, achieving notable results in reducing oil and increasing chemicals and specialties. By integrating customer resources, strengthening channel development, and intensifying marketing efforts for chemical products and refining specialty products, the Company strove to increase sales volumes and market shares, chemical product sales maintained rapid growth. Domestic market shares of paraffin, bonded marine fuel oil, specialty asphalt and other products remained in leading positions. In 2025, the Company processed 1.38 billion barrels of crude oil and produced 117 million tons of refined products, and the chemical commodity products reached 40.03 million tons, representing a year-on-year increase of 2.7%, the chemical new materials reached 3.33 million tons, up year-on-year by 62.7%. The refining, chemicals and new materials business realized an operating profit of RMB 24.25 billion.

Marketing achieved remarkable results, with continuously improving value creation capability across the entire industry chain. Taking the marketing enhancement initiative as a key lever, the Company coordinated to optimize market layout and resource allocation, strengthened the integration of production and sales, vigorously expanded sales and reduced inventory, and ensured smooth operation of the industry chain. The Company continuously optimized marketing strategies, implemented personalized and differentiated marketing based on different regions and petroleum products, appropriately captured the timing of LNG spot procurement and gas storage injection-withdrawal operations, and implemented multiple measures to control natural gas procurement costs. Overseas market expansion and trading operations were actively pursued to enlarge the scale of oil and gas product trading and contribute to cost reduction and efficiency improvement across the industry chain. New energy services including vehicle LNG refueling, charging and battery swapping, and integrated energy solutions were also developed, with 1,525 integrated energy stations established, 450 LNG refueling stations put into operation, and 37,600 charging guns added. In 2025, the Company achieved sales volumes of 160.81 million tons of gasoline, kerosene and diesel, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.1%; and a total of 314.71 billion cubic meters of natural gas, up year-on-year by 7.0%, of which domestic natural gas sales reached 247.53 billion cubic meters, representing a year-on-year increase of 5.6% . The refined products marketing business achieved an operating profit of RMB 17.55 billion, while the natural gas marketing business achieved an operating profit of RMB 60.80 billion.

Technological innovation delivered abundant achievements, with core competitiveness steadily enhanced. Taking innovation as the primary development strategy, the Company continuously strengthened the scientific and technological innovation system, achieved a number of landmark results in energy and chemical technology innovation, and strongly supported the development of the businesses. Shendi Take-1 Well was successfully completed, setting multiple world records, while Shendi Chuanke-1 Well broke through the 10,000-meter threshold. 100,000 ton-level gas-phase POE complete technology was put into application, and a solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber unit with proprietary technology was completed and brought into operation. The “Digital‑Intelligent Transformation” strategic initiative has been vigorously implemented to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence with the energy and chemical industry, and significantly improved digital and intelligent industrialization across the entire industry chain, with production and operation efficiency and refined management capabilities continuously strengthened. In 2025, the Company recorded R&D expenditure of RMB 27.25 billion, accounting for 1.0% of revenue, with the proportion of capitalized R&D expenditure at 13.6%, and obtained 2,042 domestic patents. As of December 31, 2025, the Company held a total of 23,075 patents domestically and overseas.

2026 marks the beginning of “the 15th Five-Year Plan”. The Company will remain anchored on the goal of building itself into a world-class integrated energy and chemical company built to last, proactively adapt to the global energy transition and evolving market landscape, adhere to the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, and vigorously implement its five major strategies: innovation, resources, market, internationalization, and green & low-carbon development. The Company will actively enhance market analysis and judgment, proactively respond to market changes, continuously optimize production and operations, strengthen cost and expense management, and constantly enhance the operational quality and efficiency of its oil and gas industry chains. By fully leveraging its competitive advantages, the Company will develop new quality productive forces in light of local conditions, accelerate the development of emerging industries including new energies and new materials, strive to enhance its capabilities in value creation, risk response and sustainable development, and continuously create greater value for shareholders and society.

Additional information on PetroChina is available at the Company’s website: http://www.petrochina.com.cn

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ZHENGZHOU, China, March 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — More than six decades after the United States journalist Edgar Snow returned to China to document a nation in transformation, a new generation of foreign visitors is walking in his footsteps — and reaching the same conclusion he did: understanding China requires seeing it with one’s own eyes.

That consensus ran through Saturday’s thematic forum titled “Telling Story Well: From Empathetic Communication to Cultural Identity”, held in Zhengzhou, Henan province, as part of the 2026 China Internet Media Forum. The forum is hosted by the Bureau of Cyber Communications, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, and organized by China Daily Website.

More than 200 participants from home and abroad — content creators, scholars, business figures, and descendants of Snow himself — gathered to share stories of personal immersion in Chinese culture, each echoing the belief that authentic connection cannot be achieved through headlines or abstract narratives alone.

Snow, whose 1937 book Red Star Over China introduced generations of Western readers to the Chinese revolution, later traveled to Henan province in 1960, capturing a “newly born” People’s Republic of China in his writings.

His journey formed the historical anchor for this week’s gathering, which featured a field tour retracing his path through Zhengzhou and Luoyang.

“From the Snow’s era to today, this conviction has never changed: when more people see with their own eyes, understanding happens,” Adam Foster, grandnephew of Helen Foster Snow — Edgar’s wife and a celebrated journalist in her own right — and founding chairman of the Helen Foster Snow Foundation, said.

Foster, who participated in the Henan tour, described his experience as “almost a personal journey”.

“I want to understand the journey that he went on to understand the Chinese people,” he said, adding that he was struck by the region’s “earth-shaking” changes since Snow’s time.

That theme of firsthand discovery echoed across five thematic sessions — “China Bound”, “Shopping in China”, “Study in China”, “Becoming Chinese”, and “Opportunity China” — where speakers from a mix of countries shared their individual paths of immersion.

Anayat Ali, a doctoral candidate at Tongji University from India and a travel blogger, contrasted his early struggles navigating China with his current appreciation for its infrastructure and everyday life. “The best way to understand China is not through the headlines or textbooks, but with your own eyes, your own feet and an open heart,” he told the audience.

The “Shopping in China” session highlighted the commercial dimension of cultural exchange.

He Lihong, president of the Yiwu Brands Association, traced her path from a street vendor in Yiwu, Zhejiang province – dubbed the world’s capital of small commodities – to leading a collective push for Chinese products to gain global recognition. “The city cannot forever be a silent world factory,” she said. “We must become a globally recognized brand.”

In the “Study in China” session, Joel Mikael Walker, a German practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine who has spent a decade in Henan, reflected on how language and culture became inseparable.

“When we understand each other’s lives, the differences become smaller,” he said, speaking in the Henan dialect. “Health is a common pursuit for all humanity — that makes TCM an international language.”

The “Becoming Chinese” session tapped into a broader cultural wave: over recent months, the #BecomingChinese has surged across social media, with international users documenting their immersion in everything from traditional medicine to daily routines.

For Lucas Deckers, a Belgian influencer, the movement is not about losing one’s origins but finding resonance.

He traced his connection with China to his grandfather’s visit in 1981, 17 years before he was born. His grandfather, who traveled to China at a time when the country looked very different, returned with stories that planted a seed of curiosity. That seed eventually drew Deckers to China, where he now lives in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, documenting his journey from learning Mandarin to embracing the country’s diverse ethnic cultures.

“For me, becoming Chinese is not about crossing cultural differences — it is about finding psychological resonance, a sense of belonging,” he said.

A panel discussion, “Opportunity China,” brought together global affairs expert David Gosset, Deputy Director of the Center for China and Globalization Victor Gao, and Special Representative on China of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Zafar Uddin Mahmood.

Mahmood, who first came to China in 1976, urged content creators to look beyond viral appeal and convey the deeper story of China’s development. “Historical sites, food, shopping — all are important,” he said. “But in today’s complex international environment, we must also introduce the new China. Where do these opportunities come from? Today, in my country, 30 percent of people use solar panels — because China produces vast quantities at affordable prices. The same is true for electric vehicles. I hope influencers will not focus solely on traffic, but also share these key aspects of China with the world.”

“Becoming Chinese is not only a fashion — it is a trend, it is a megatrend,” Gao said, noting that after years of what he described as vilification of China abroad, “it is time for the world to know China as it is.”

Gosset, a French sinologist, cautioned against reducing cross-cultural exchange to surface-level trends, calling on youth to strive to become citizens of the world and appreciate “the differences while finding common ground”.

The forum closed with the launch of several projects aimed at enhancing the experience of international visitors and residents in China, part of broader efforts to facilitate cultural exchange.