Featuring the voices of families supported by Ronald McDonald House Charities – hear it at Macca’s this Saturday and help make a difference!

SYDNEY, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With just days to go until McHappy Day, iconic Aussie DJ Mashd N Kutcher has dropped the official McHappy Day 2025 anthem – a big tune with an even bigger purpose: supporting Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC).

Created in collaboration with Macca’s, the track is more than just music – it’s a celebration of courage, community and kindness, brought to life through Mashd N Kutcher’s signature genre-blending style.

What makes it truly special? It features the real voices of children and families staying at Ronald McDonald House South Brisbane – from chatter around the dinner table and giggles in the playground to their very own remix of the iconic “ba da ba ba ba” jingle.

It’s a powerful reminder of what McHappy Day is all about: bringing Aussies together to support families with children who are ill or injured when they need it most. 

The track is live on Mashd N Kutcher and Macca’s social channels and will be playing in Macca’s restaurants nationwide this McHappy Day (Saturday, 15 November).

Mashd N Kutcher lead, Matt James shared: “This song means a lot to me. Visiting the team and families at Ronald McDonald House was truly inspiring – their positivity, resilience and the way they support each other is incredible.

“Seeing the kids light up while playing instruments, sharing laughs and even singing the Macca’s jingle was magic. It was a privilege to bring a little fun into their day, and I think that magic shines through in the track. I hope it makes people smile and inspires them to get involved and donate to McHappy Day this Saturday.”

Amanda Nakad, Marketing Director of Menu and Brand for McDonald’s Australia added: “McHappy Day is a powerful reminder of the difference we can make when we come together. This year, we wanted to do something bold, fresh and fun – and this track absolutely delivers.

“We’re inviting every Aussie to head into their local Macca’s this Saturday, hear the track, join the fun and buy a Big Mac – all to support a cause that’s so close to our hearts.”

Here’s how you can get involved and turn up the feel-good factor this McHappy Day:

• Share the soundtrack – Head to Mashd N Kutcher,  McDonald’s Australia and RMHC Australia socials to hear the official McHappy Day 2025 track. Share it far and wide!
• Step up for smiles – Pick up Silly Socks for $6.50 featuring iconic heritage characters, Grimace and Hamburglar.
• Wear your heart on your head – Grab a Bucket Hat for $3.95 from select stores, featuring the iconic McDonaldland characters, available in two colours.
• Lend a hand – Purchase Helping Hands for $2, $10 or $50. Colour it in and display it proudly in-restaurant or at home.
• Click, tap, donate – Visit mchappyday.org.au/donate to make a quick contribution. The easiest way to spread smiles far and wide.
• Buy a Big Mac, with a BIGGER purpose – On McHappy Day, $2 from every Big Mac sold (solo or in a meal) goes directly to RMHC. That’s a smile with every mouthful!

Organised by McDonald’s Australia, McHappy Day is the largest annual fundraiser for RMHC Australia. Since launching in 1991, McHappy Day has raised over $79 million, helping more than 69,000 families every year through RMHC. But with thousands more families needing support,  McHappy Day donations are more important than ever.

Supporting McHappy Day helps fund essential RMHC Programs like Houses, Family Rooms, Family Retreats, Hospitality Carts and the Learning Program – all designed to provide families comfort, care and support when and where they need it most.

Want to be a part of the magic? Visit: http://www.mchappyday.org.au/ to learn more and head to Mashd N Kutcher and Macca’s channels to watch the video clip for the song.

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RMHC Family Stories

One family that has benefited from the support of RMHC is 14-year-old, Sam, who was flown to Townsville University Hospital in critical condition after a shark attack on Thursday Island. While Sam undergoes treatment, his mum, Shanna has been able to stay at Ronald McDonald House Townsville. Sam’s story is a stark reminder of how quickly life can change, and the vital role of RMHC for families across Australia.

Sam’s Mum, Shanna says: “Since my son’s accident, as a Mum, I’ve found myself stepping into so many roles I never could have imagined. Throughout it all, Ronald McDonald House has provided me with a safe space from the chaos. With it being just a five-minute walk from the Hospital, this has allowed me to stay close to my son, and if I’m needed, I’m never too far away. The house is where I can take off my armour, breathe, refresh, and gather myself, before I need to return. Ronald McDonald House has given me the strength to show up for my boy, day after day – and I couldn’t be more thankful.”

17-year-old Ethan has defied the odds through three cancer diagnoses and spent more than 600 nights at Ronald McDonald House Monash. Now cancer-free, Ethan’s story has come full circle. After meeting McDonald’s Licensees, Tim and Jen Peut at the RMHC Gala Ball and expressing his wish of having a job just like his friends, he landed his first job at his local Macca’s in Sale, Victoria just four days later – marking the next chapter of his journey.

Ethan’s Mum, Mindy on their journey with Ronald McDonald House Charities: “Ronald McDonald House has been a home away from home. Unfortunately, it isn’t something that people know about unless they use it. So that’s why we want to be the voice, to show people that it’s out there and it’s for people to use. We’ve also had the pleasure of using the Ronald McDonald House Learning Program. This has helped Ethan and his sister, Lilly both in a subject or two subjects, each of choice. We’ve also been a part of the Ronald McDonald Family Retreat Program since Ethan was two years old. We stayed at Fiona Lodge, which was absolutely great for the fact that we were concentrating on medical things, schoolwork, and work.”

TOKYO, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — bedra Vietnam Alloy Materials (bedra Vietnam), a subsidiary of the century-old German brand bedra, is participating in the METAL JAPAN 2025 in Tokyo from November 12 to 14. In its consecutive years at the event, bedra Vietnam is accelerating its strategic expansion into the Japanese market, with a focus on meeting the rising demand for high-performance materials in AI infrastructure and precision manufacturing. Visitors are invited to explore the company’s latest innovations at booth 34-40.

At the core of bedra Vietnam’s showcase is a portfolio of advanced copper alloy solutions tailored for two critical applications: busbar systems in AI data centers and liquid cooling components for AI servers.

In response to the escalating power demands and reliability standards of AI-driven data centers, bedra Vietnam presents a comprehensive busbar solution. As a critical element in AI data infrastructure, the busbar not only functions as a current conduit but also underpins system stability by efficiently distributing power to all key components within a server.

bedra Vietnam’s high-purity copper busbars, produced through dedicated manufacturing lines, are engineered to minimize energy loss while offering exceptional corrosion resistance and weldability. For compact power distribution cabinets, the busbars feature diverse cross-sectional designs and superior bending capabilities, optimizing space utilization in high-density layouts. At the server rack level, bedra Vietnam delivers precision busbars compliant with Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications, ensuring seamless integration with AI server architectures. These products are available in coated (Ag/Sn) and uncoated variants to meet varied operational requirements.

A new production initiative for busbar alloys has been launched in 2025, with an annual supply target of 2,000 tons by 2026. To strengthen its service network, bedra Vietnam is collaborating with local partners, including Alconix Nagoya and EBC Tokyo, ensuring technical support and a steady supply for industrial clients.

The demanding thermal management challenges faced by AI servers and high-performance computing systems, is also considered within bedra alloy’s strategic plan. Their liquid cooling plate,to be present in the show, is born to address this tough nut. With thermal conductivity exceeding 390 W/(m•K), these custom profiles are manufactured with tightly controlled microstructures to support complex machining. The alloys’ ultra-low oxygen content eliminates leakage risks during high-temperature brazing, ensuring system stability. Additionally, the company’s Cu-Zr alloy demonstrates outstanding resistance to high-temperature softening, with post-weld strength surpassing pure copper by over 30%. This enables the development of lighter, more compact cooling components, delivering reliable thermal performance for cutting-edge equipment.

As the flagship of bedra’s manufacturing and R&D operations in Asia, bedra Vietnam exemplifies strategic importance, combining German process precision with Vietnamese agility to produce ultra-pure, high-strength copper alloys, including OFC, ETP, and CuCrZr, with copper purity reaching 99.99% and conductivity up to 101% IACS.

With a combination of continuous material innovation and localized responsiveness, bedra Vietnam aims to play a vital role in enabling breakthroughs across key industries, including energy, electronics, and artificial intelligence, laying the foundation for smarter and more sustainable industrial development. 

For more information, please visit www.bedra.com or follow the company on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/bedra-vietnam-alloy-material-co-ltd.

• Fosters trust between AI agents and merchants with secure seamless transactions that redefine digital commerce
• Catch Visa Intelligent Commerce in action from 12-14 November at Singapore Fintech Festival 2025

SINGAPORE, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Visa, a global leader in digital payments, today announced significant strides in expanding Visa Intelligent Commerce across Asia Pacific, accelerating the region’s push into agentic commerce – a new era where AI-powered agents shop and pay on behalf of consumers. This expansion delivers fresh progress on Visa’s agentic commerce strategy by introducing new security protocols and pilot programs that are ready to build upon earlier partnerships and initiatives.

 Building an AI-Ready Commerce Ecosystem

Visa Intelligent Commerce, a comprehensive suite of integrated APIs and a partner program, utilises Visa’s secure infrastructure to enable safe, transparent, and consent-driven payments by AI agents, on behalf of consumers. It incorporates features like tokenisation, authentication, payment instructions, and transaction signals, allowing AI agents to operate transparently and securely, and empowers consumers to confidently trust AI-driven commerce interactions to help them shop and pay online.

Over the past year, AI-driven traffic to retail websites has surged over 4,700%, and 85%^[1] of shoppers who have used AI to shop say it improved their shopping experience. Today, Visa is advancing its infrastructure, standards, and capabilities to power AI-driven commerce, opening new opportunities for consumers across Asia Pacific.

Soon, AI agents integrated into familiar platforms will be able to transact using Visa’s 4.8 billion credentials at millions of merchant locations worldwide. This means consumers could simply instruct their AI agent to book travel or buy movie tickets, and have the entire purchase executed securely – a seamless experience backed by Visa’s network and safeguards.

Building Merchant Confidence with Trusted Agent Protocol

Trusted Agent Protocol is a cornerstone of Visa Intelligent Commerce, a new ecosystem-led framework designed by Visa to provide merchants the much-needed assurance in an AI-driven world. Trusted Agent Protocol enable merchants to recognise and verify trusted AI agents with genuine commerce intent, addressing a key concern as online traffic from AI agents grows. It uses agent-specific cryptographic signatures to ensure secure, verified transactions to prevent fraud by distinguishing legitimate agents from malicious bots, and helps to maintain visibility of the consumer behind the agent – preserving customer relationships.

Crucially, Trusted Agent Protocol is designed as an open, low-code solution for merchants to integrate seamlessly without overhauling their infrastructure to benefit. This now ensures that AI agents act on behalf of consumers with transparency, verified intent, and secure credentials. With this framework, merchants can treat AI-driven purchases with the same confidence as human-driven ones.

T.R. Ramachandran, Head of Products and Solutions, Asia Pacific, Visa, said, “Agentic commerce is transforming the very fabric of online payment transactions, requiring a unified ecosystem to unlock its full potential. With Visa Intelligent Commerce and its cornerstone, Trusted Agent Protocol, Visa is connecting consumers, AI agents and merchants through secure, scalable solutions. This ensures every interaction is verified and transparent, empowering all parties of the purchase to embrace this future with confidence.”

Continued Momentum Across Asia Pacific

Visa is actively collaborating with some of the biggest players in AI, Tech and Payments, including Ant International, LG Uplus, Microsoft, Perplexity, Stripe and Tencent, to enable agentic commerce transactions. These partnerships reflect Visa’s vision of an interconnected ecosystem where AI agents and the payment ecosystem work together to deliver smart, trusted commerce experiences.

Looking ahead, Visa plans to launch Visa Intelligent Commerce pilots across Asia Pacific as regulatory and ecosystem readiness advances, by early 2026. This demonstrates Visa’s commitment to collaborating across Visa’s network and AI ecosystem players to accelerate the next wave of AI-powered payments and deliver transformative commerce experiences for this new-generation of AI-native consumers.

Step Into the Payments of Tomorrow, Today

Join Visa at the Singapore Fintech Festival from 12–14 November 2025 and discover how it is shaping seamless, secure, and intelligent payment experiences of the future.

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About Visa

Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, sellers, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at Visa.com. 

Nium is joining Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, enabling Nium to fulfil its settlement obligations in select stablecoins, including Circle’s USDC across supported blockchains 

SINGAPORE, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Nium the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments,  today announced it has elected to participate in Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, an initiative that enables select partners to settle with Visa using stablecoins across supported blockchains.

The introduction of stablecoin settlement to Nium’s operations marks a significant step forward in modernising its cross-border money movement, unlocking faster, more secure, and programmable settlement capabilities.

By participating in Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot, Nium will harness supported stablecoins, including Circle’s USDC as a digital settlement rail with Visa. By moving settlement from legacy batch-based systems into blockchain-based stablecoin flows, Nium aims to reduce friction, cost and delays in cross-border settlement, including addressing pain points such as weekend cut-offs, time zone delays and slow reconciliation windows.

“Nium’s participating in the Visa pilot marks a new chapter for enterprise-grade money movement,” said Alex Johnson, Chief Payments Officer at Nium. “Businesses have long been constrained by settlement cycles that move on the cadence of clearing schemes and banks, not on the cadence of global commerce. By settling with Visa via stablecoins, we’re aligning payments to the speed of the internet, not the speed of traditional rails.”

“Stablecoins are increasingly becoming a critical tool in modern money movement,” said Nischint Sanghavi, Head of Digital Currencies, Asia Pacific, Visa. “Our stablecoin settlement pilot is designed to give partners predictable settlement capabilities up to seven days per week, to keep pace with today’s constantly evolving global commerce environment. We’re excited to expand our collaboration with Nium to bring these new capabilities to more participants in the ecosystem.”

Nium will participate in Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot through its existing real-time cross-border infrastructure footprint, enabling customers and fintechs to connect to faster digital settlement rails without needing to build stablecoin infrastructure themselves.

This endeavour builds on Visa and Nium’s multi-year collaboration to modernise global money movement for enterprises and platforms worldwide.

About Nium

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders. Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 190+ countries, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 40 markets. Nium’s growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore

About Visa

Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, sellers, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at Visa.com.

BANGKOK, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Huawei Cloud today announced that it has been ranked second by revenue in Thailand’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market, according to the latest report from Gartner, which we believe solidified its position as one of the fastest-growing international cloud providers in the country. To us, this recognition coincides with a global brand refresh, introducing a new logo and the slogan “The AI Pioneer in Industries,” underscoring its commitment to empowering various sectors with AI technology.

Deepened Localization Strategy Drives Market Leadership

Adhering to its “In Local, For Local” strategy in Thailand, Huawei Cloud has strengthened its local infrastructure and service capabilities. It now operates 3 Availability Zones in Thailand, delivering high-reliability cloud services with latency as low as 12ms. Supported by a local team and ecosystem, Huawei Cloud serves over 1,000 Thai customers.

Huawei Cloud empowers Thai enterprises through its three core advantages: Security & Reliability, AI-Driven Evolution, and Localized Services. it offers more than 110 cloud services and solutions, encompassing infrastructure, AI technologies, and industry-specific large models. To date, it has supported digital transformation for over 40 government agencies in Thailand, including chatbot enhancements, AI knowledge base development, and training of local large language models. Its comprehensive solutions lower the barrier to cloud adoption and ensure compatibility with diverse IT environments. Furthermore, Huawei Cloud has cultivated a robust AI ecosystem, having trained more than 20,000 local developers.

Brand Evolution to “The AI Pioneer in Industries” Focuses on AI Innovation

The new brand positioning, “The AI Pioneer in Industries,” signifies a strategic focus on industry-specific AI. In Thailand, Huawei Cloud is leveraging its strengths in three key areas to accelerate intelligent transformation:

1. Support for Mainstream Models, Strengthening the AI Foundation: Built on Ascend AI cloud services, Huawei Cloud supports leading open-source large models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM, ensuring data security throughout its lifecycle. Its training environment boasts high stability, capable of supporting continuous training for up to 40 days and with a task recovery time of less than 10 minutes.
2. Enterprise-Grade Agent Platform for Rapid AI Deployment: The Versatile Agent platform streamlines development, enabling users to create AI Agents in just two steps, improving efficiency and reducing response latency by over 40%. Integrated solutions are also available for SMEs.
3. Proven Industry Expertise and Shared Experience: Huawei Cloud’s AI solutions have been successfully implemented globally across various sectors, including public services (Pangu Government), finance (Pangu Finance), industry (Pangu Predict), healthcare (Pangu Medical) and autonomous driving.

Executive Quote: Sustained Investment for Thailand’s Digital Future

Sunny Shang, President of Huawei Cloud APAC commented, “We are honored by Huawei Cloud’s progress in the Thai IaaS market. Our new slogan represents our pledge to bring cutting-edge AI capabilities to Thailand’s industries, helping them seize digital and intelligent opportunities. We will continue investing in local infrastructure, talent development, and ecosystem partnerships to build a thriving digital economy together.”

About Huawei Cloud
Huawei Cloud, a leading global cloud service provider, offers reliable, secure, and innovative cloud services to empower digital transformation for enterprises worldwide.