– To be held over three days from the 2nd to the 4th in Paris, France, with 1,550 companies and more than 24,000 visitors expected.

– Specialty ingredients including amino acids and microalgae to be showcased, along with tasting sessions featuring dishes made with the natural seasoning ingredient “Dsavory”

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Daesang will participate in “FiE 2025 (Food Ingredients Europe 2025),” one of the world’s largest food ingredient exhibitions, to be held in Paris, France from the 2nd to the 4^th. The company’s participation reflects its commitment to expand its global ingredient business capabilities and strengthen its presence in the international market.

Launched in 1986, Food Ingredients Europe (FiE) is the largest food and food additive exhibition in Europe, showcasing the latest technologies and trends in food ingredients and additives. It serves as a global platform to explore essential raw materials and additives for food manufacturing, as well as the latest trends in the food industry. This year, more than 1,550 companies from approximately 135 countries and over 24,000 visitors, including professional buyers, are expected to attend.

At the exhibition, Daesang will showcase three categories of specialty high-performance ingredients, including natural seasoning ingredients, EMULAID, and microalgae, backed by its proprietary technologies developed through years of experience in the domestic and global food ingredient business. By introducing its extensive ingredient portfolio developed through long-standing fermentation expertise, the company aims to expand its overseas sales channels and strengthen partnerships with global clients to reinforce its position in the global ingredient market.

Daesang will introduce the natural seasoning ingredient “Dsavory,” which enhances natural umami while preserving the original taste of food. Dsavory enables balanced umami across a wide range of products and delivers deep flavor without using actual meat, making it applicable to soups, snacks, and alternative proteins, while supporting environmentally friendly and sustainable product development. At this year’s exhibition, Daesang will also operate a tasting session where visitors can sample nuggets and soups made with Dsavory ingredients.

Six high value amino acids including L-arginine, L-glutamine, and L-citrulline will also be exhibited. These ingredients are widely used in pharmaceuticals, health functional foods, and animal feed, and global demand continues to grow as they serve as core raw materials for nutritional fortification and functional product development.

The company will also introduce plant based protein ingredients derived from microalgae, including Green Chlorella, GoldRella, and White Chlorella. These ingredients contain protein and dietary fiber, as well as essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals, making them suitable for plant based alternative foods and health functional foods. Their safety and regulatory compliance are supported by SA-GRAS (Self-Affirmed Generally Recognized as Safe) status, which authorizes their use and sale in the United States.

In addition, Daesang will introduce the modified starch “EMULAID,” which stabilizes texture and flavor by preventing the separation of oil and water. Made from waxy corn starch, it is suitable for vegan applications, has low viscosity, and dissolves easily even in cold water, enabling its use in across a wide range of manufacturing processes.

Lee Hyo-hoon, Head of Ingredient Marketing at Daesang, said, “This global ingredient exhibition offers an important opportunity to showcase the strength of Daesang’s specialty ingredients developed through our proprietary technologies, while gaining insight into evolving trends and expanding our international network. We will continue to strengthen cooperation with our global clients based on our unique expertise and technologies to broaden our presence on the worldwide ingredient market.”

About Daesang Corporation
Founded in 1956, Daesang Corporation has been one of the world’s largest producers of fermented food products for over 60 years, and has grown to be the global leading Korean based food company by operating global brands such as Jongga, and O’Food which provides sauce, ready-to-eat meals, and many more products. Headquartered in South Korea, the company also has manufacturing subsidiaries in United States, Poland, China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Visit www.daesang.com/en for more information.

With stronger consistency, faster generation, and expanded image capabilities, Vidu Q2 Image Generation delivers a full-stack upgrade for creative workflows

SINGAPORE, Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ShengShu Technology, a global leader in multimodal generative AI, today launched advanced image generation on Vidu Q2, expanding its flagship model into a leading AI image platform. The new capabilities upgrade the reference-to-image features from the earlier Q1 model and extend them into a full image stack that covers text-to-image, enhanced reference-to-image and full image editing. They are designed to deliver top-tier image quality with stronger consistency, faster generation, and more accessible pricing compared with the latest international image models. To support wider adoption, 1080p image generation will be available for unlimited free use for members until December 31, 2025, offering creators an opportunity to fully explore the new features at scale.

Vidu Q2 delivers performance-driven generation with lifelike motion and fast rendering. The new image generation extends these strengths to still visuals, making Vidu a unified system for both images and video. “High-end image models have raised the bar for what creators expect from AI visuals,” said Yihang Luo, CEO of ShengShu Technology. “With Vidu Q2 image generation, we want to meet that standard head-on and give the market a truly competitive alternative. Our focus is clear: compared with the latest flagship image models on the market, Vidu Q2 is built to offer clear advantages in consistency, speed and pricing, so creators can scale real work, not just run experiments.”

On the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Leaderboard, Vidu Q2 image generation ranks ahead of OpenAI’s models and stands alongside Google’s Nano Banana.

Full Image Function and Leading Consistency

The new Vidu Q2 image generation is built to match the latest generation of top image platforms in quality, while pushing further on full function and consistency.

Vidu Q2 now supports full spectrum image workflows:

• Text-to-Image: High-quality images generated directly from prompts. Creators can quickly explore characters, scenes, products and key visuals at production-ready resolutions.
• Reference-to-Image: An enhanced reference stack focused on industry-leading consistency. Even with multiple reference images, Q2 preserves character identity, styling and spatial layout, keeping faces, logos and key details stable across sequences.
• Image Editing: Fast, precise editing for generated or uploaded images, including adding or removing objects, adjusting outfits and props, tweaking lighting and composition, repairing fine details, and more.

Vidu Q2’s reference-to-image model shows outstanding performance in maintaining spatial layout and subject consistency. Complex compositions with several reference images remain coherent, with each subject and object clearly readable and true to its source. At the same time, Q2’s text-to-image engine supports anime-style four-panel comic layouts, allowing users to create their own scenes from a single prompt. It also renders ink-painting and Chinese-style visuals particularly well, with rich brush-like textures and atmosphere that make these traditional aesthetics stand out.

Built for Real-World Production with Speed and Cost Efficiency

The Vidu Q2 image upgrade is designed for professional production environments where resolution, turnaround time and cost all matter.

With native support for 1080p, 2K and 4K output, creators can use Q2 images for key visuals, storyboards, posters, digital out-of-home assets, streaming thumbnails and high-impact social content. For example, the fastest image generation speed is 5 seconds, scaling with reference complexity, which allows teams to run many variations for A/B testing, pre-visualization, and creative exploration without slowing down their workflow.

Combined with Q2’s existing efficiencies in video generation, the new image capabilities are structured to provide a more cost-effective alternative to separate high-end image services from global providers, especially for users who need to generate large volumes of content.

One Reference Workflow for Images and Video

While the Vidu Q2 image upgrade stands alone as a top-tier image solution, it also unlocks a second advantage, a single visual engine across stills and motion.

Because image and video now run on the same Vidu Q2 model, creators can design once and reuse everywhere. Generated images can be saved with one click as references, so that the same character or object can be used again in new images or brought into video workflows with high consistency. These subjects appear consistently across multiple images and then perform in Vidu Q2 videos without losing identity. Creators can use text-to-image and reference-to-image to build storyboards, layout references or coloured frames, then carry the same framing, characters and environments into video sequences. This allows teams to move smoothly from image exploration to video production without switching platforms, tools or models, which reduces friction for projects running under tight timelines.

This unified approach is particularly valuable in industries where campaigns span many formats. Advertisers can keep the same models, products and environments across key visuals, multi-frame storyboards and video spots. Short drama and animation teams can define character looks and worlds in stills, then extend them into performance-driven clips. Cultural tourism projects can combine stylised poster imagery with cinematic videos while maintaining a coherent visual universe from stills to motion.

Coming only a short time after the previous Vidu Q2 “Reference-to-Video” releases, this upgrade once again demonstrates ShengShu’s strong technical strength and rapid iteration, as it continues to benchmark against and lead the global market.

“With each update to Vidu Q2, we are not just adding features, we are tightening the link between our models and everyday creative work,” said Luo. “Our goal is to make it as natural as possible for anyone to move from an idea in their mind to a complete visual story, whether that starts from a still image, a reference board or a fully acted performance.”

To help creators fully experience all of Vidu’s capabilities, the Black Friday promotion offers 40% off all annual plans, with bonus credits for inviting friends, available until December 4, 2025.

To learn more about Vidu, visit www.vidu.com

The Vidu API, including the new Q2 Image Generation model, is now available at platform.vidu.com 

About ShengShu Technology

Founded in March 2023, ShengShu Technology is a world-leading artificial intelligence company, specializing in the development of Multimodal Large Language Models. Driven by innovation, the company delivers cutting-edge MaaS and SaaS products that revolutionize creative production by enabling smarter, faster, and scalable content creation. With its flagship video generation platform Vidu, ShengShu Technology’s solutions have reached more than 200 countries and regions around the world, spanning fields including interactive entertainment, advertising, film, animation, cultural tourism, and more.

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia, Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — KPJ Healthcare Berhad (“KPJ Healthcare” or “the Group”) today launched its first Centre of Excellence (“CoE”) under the KPJ Health System (“KPJHS”), marking a decisive step in the Group’s transformation into an integrated academic health system. The inaugural Heart & Lung CoE is established at Johor Specialist Hospital (“JSH”) and will anchor a unified service line across KPJ’s network through standardised clinical pathways, multidisciplinary reviews and data-driven improvement. 

Introduced in 2024, KPJHS integrates Practice (“care delivery”), Education (“KPJ Healthcare University; KPJU”) and Research & Innovation to strengthen clinical governance and deliver a consistently superior patient experience across the Group. areas that support the development of CoEs benchmarked to global best practices. In parallel, KPJ Healthcare has formalised a consulting engagement with Mayo Clinic Global Consulting, focused on clinical standards, patient experience, education frameworks and relevant research areas to support the development of CoEs benchmarked to global best practices.

Dato’ Syed Mohamed Syed Ibrahim, President & Chief Executive of Johor Corporation (JCorp), Chairman of KPJU and Chairman of the KPJHS Project Steering Committee, said, “This CoE reflects a simple mandate: one system, one standard, better outcomes. KPJHS is how we move from good intentions to measurable results where patients receive safer care, faster access and a consistently better experience across our hospitals.”

Chin Keat Chyuan, President & Managing Director of KPJ Healthcare, said, “The launch of our first CoE signals our shift to a fully integrated health system. With KPJHS, clinical practice is reinforced by structured education and research embedded in daily workflows so we can improve outcomes and deliver a more consistent experience across the network.”

What the JSH Heart & Lung CoE will deliver:

• One clinical way of working that enables system-wide pathways, shared expertise and multidisciplinary case reviews to support timely, evidence-informed care.
• Capability building where in collaboration with KPJU, the CoE will expand simulation-based training, clinical attachments and case reviews to build future-ready talent.
• Digital and data in the workflow that support decision making and reinforce consistency in care delivery.
• Continuous improvement through practice-improvement initiatives are underway at JSH to strengthen outcomes and accountability across the service line.

The JSH Heart & Lung CoE is the first of 15 CoEs planned by 2030, which will anchor KPJHS and expand capability, access and value for patients and communities nationwide. The launch was witnessed by Tan Sri Dato‘ Sri Dr Ismail Bakar, Chairman of KPJ Healthcare; Chin Keat Chyuan, President & Managing Director, KPJ Healthcare; Royston Lek, Vice President, Global Commercial Solutions, Mayo Clinic International; and senior clinical leaders from across KPJ. 

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About KPJ Healthcare Berhad 

KPJ Healthcare operates 30 hospitals across Malaysia and four Ambulatory Care Centres, serving 3.3 million patients annually with 1,491 medical consultants. Nineteen hospitals are accredited by MSQH and four by JCI. As Malaysia’s first private healthcare provider to establish an Academic Health System, KPJHS integrates practice, education and research & innovation to drive clinical excellence and patient experience. Beyond hospitals, KPJ Healthcare operates Klinik Waqaf An-Nur (KWAN) clinics, dialysis centres and mobile clinics nationwide, and offers more than 40 academic programmes at KPJ Healthcare University (KPJU). KPJ Healthcare has been a constituent of the Bursa Malaysia FTSE4Good Index since 2016.

GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — From November 19 to 21, a delegation of leading African automotive media representatives from countries including Egypt and Tunisia visited Guangzhou to participate in a three-day in-depth “Africa Media GAC Visit.” During the visit, Africa Media Delegation toured GAC headquarters, explored advanced intelligent manufacturing plants, participated in immersive test drives, attended a group interview session at the Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition, and joined a city co-creation event at Canton Tower. Through this journey, they gained a comprehensive understanding of GAC’s strengths and vision in globalization, intelligence and electrification.

On the first day, the Africa Media Delegation visited GAC’s headquarters, gaining a systematic overview of the company’s global business layout, forward-looking R&D system and international development strategy.

The delegation then visited the production bases of GAC and AION, touring key workshops including welding, final assembly and quality inspection. GAC’s intelligent manufacturing capabilities left a strong impression on the Africa Media Delegation in terms of both efficiency and stability.

During the test-drive session, Africa Media Delegation experienced the comprehensive performance of new GAC EVs and Hybrid-Reev models under various driving scenarios. The program included figure-eight handling, rough road sections, straight-line acceleration, and slalom courses, simulating urban conditions, complex road environments and highway driving. 

On November 21, the delegation visited GAC’s exhibit area at the 23rd Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition, observing the company’s forward-looking layout in new energy, intelligent technologies and future mobility from a global perspective.

Following the auto show, the delegation admired landmarks such as the Canton Tower and the Pearl River Night Cruise, which showcased Guangzhou’s unique vitality and charm. They noted that the experience deepened their understanding of Guangzhou as a city where “technology and culture coexist,” and further strengthened their impression of GAC as an open, youthful and globally oriented brand.

This in-depth visit by Africa Media Delegation provided an invaluable first-hand perspective for international media to understand and report on GAC, while also supporting the development of automotive industry exchange and cooperation between China and Africa. Looking ahead, GAC will continue to uphold an open and pragmatic approach, providing more high-quality mobility solutions for local users, and contribute to the advancement of China–Africa automotive industrial cooperation.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development has announced that it will host the third edition of the Global Labor Market Conference (GLMC) at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center (KAICC) in Riyadh on 26-27 January 2026.

Global Labor Market Conference

Centred around the theme “Future in Progress,” GLMC 2026 will convene policymakers, business leaders, labor market experts, and representatives from international organizations to shape the future of work. The conference will provide a platform for collaboration and dialogue aimed at developing forward-looking solutions to the world’s most pressing workforce and labor challenges.

His Excellency Eng. Ahmad bin Sulaiman AlRajhi, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, said: “We are grateful for the King’s honorable patronage of GLMC, which has become a cornerstone of the global labor landscape and a crucial platform for meaningful dialogue on the future of work. This conference reflects the Kingdom’s continued commitment to advancing international collaboration and developing innovative solutions that strengthen labor markets and enable workers everywhere. We look forward to welcoming back partners and stakeholders from across the globe to what we know will be a productive, insightful, and impactful gathering.”

The third edition will bring together more than 45 international ministers, including for a dedicated Ministerial Roundtable, to advance policy solutions for labor issues globally. The full program features six thematic pillars covering the impact of trade shifts and AI on the workforce, new skills, workers operating in the shadow economy, workforce resilience, and aligning labor markets with human progress. In addition, the conference will introduce several innovative formats this year, including policy ‘hackathons’ to develop innovative policy solutions; spotlights where speakers present their biggest workforce challenge and boldest policy experiment; and opportunities for academics to select pressing topics for debate and challenge.

In total, there is expected to be over 200 speakers and more than 7,000 attendees participating in over 50 engagements across the program.

Launched in 2023, GLMC has evolved into a year-round global think tank dedicated to advancing research, innovation, and partnerships for the advancement of global labor markets. Through ongoing initiatives such as the Global Labor Market Academy – a partnership between GLMC, the World Bank, and Takamol Holding – GLMC has established itself as a catalyst for action, creating real-world solutions that empower governments, businesses, and workers to shape more sustainable labor systems.