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Annual Autumn Event “Midosuji Runway 2025” in Osaka, Japan, Attracts 200,000 People

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OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The “Midosuji Runway 2025” event was held on Osaka’s main street, Midosuji, on Monday, November 3, a national holiday, attracting 200,000 people along the roadside and creating great excitement. This is an annual autumn event that began in 2015 and continues to showcase the charms of Osaka.

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Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura and Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama took the stage to deliver opening remarks on behalf of the organizers. “There is no doubt that this year is the year of the Expo,” Yoshimura said, emphasizing that the event carries on the excitement of the recently concluded Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan.

The event kicked off with a special parade by Universal Studios Japan. Floats carrying popular characters such as Snoopy and Mario, along with Minions and about 100 crew members, captivated the audience with performances only for the day.

Following the parade, Kunihiro Shimizu, Yuji Nishida, and other members of Osaka BLUTEON, a professional men’s volleyball team, excited the audience as they walked on the runway while playing volleyball.

At the “Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, Midosuji Runway Special Fashion Show,” the expo’s official character, Myaku-Myaku, appeared with a strong presence. Its unique form and vivid colors, which are symbols of the Expo, stood out on Midosuji, drawing cheers each time it waved. Furthermore, former Takarazuka (all-female troupe) top star Yuzuru Kurenai, fashion model Yuchami, and others appeared one after another, wearing the uniforms of Expo pavilions and vividly reminding the audience of the “memories of the Expo.”

After a powerful performance by BMX x Cheer Re-Man’s, a cheerleading performance group, the pop group SUPER EIGHT performed a special live on a float. When SUPER EIGHT collaborated with more than 200 high school dance club members from Osaka Prefecture, the excitement in the audience peaked. In the finale, all performers and guests lined up on the runway, creating a spectacular sight. Governor Yoshimura called out powerfully, “Let’s do our best, Osaka!” and the event closed with loud applause.

Tencent Cloud and Cartesia Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Real-Time Voice AI Experiences

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HONG KONG, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global leading technology company Tencent, today announced a strategic partnership with Cartesia, a San Francisco startup company that raised over US$100 million building a state-of-the-art Voice AI platform. This collaboration integrates Cartesia’s cutting-edge Sonic-3 model with Tencent RTC (TRTC)’s enterprise-grade global real-time communication infrastructure to deliver faster, more natural, and reliable voice interactions worldwide, empowering enterprises and developers to build next-generation conversational AI applications at scale.

This collaboration integrates Cartesia’s cutting-edge Sonic-3 model with Tencent RTC (TRTC)’s enterprise-grade global real-time communication infrastructure to deliver faster, more natural, and reliable voice interactions worldwide, empowering enterprises and developers to build next-generation conversational AI applications at scale.
This collaboration integrates Cartesia’s cutting-edge Sonic-3 model with Tencent RTC (TRTC)’s enterprise-grade global real-time communication infrastructure to deliver faster, more natural, and reliable voice interactions worldwide, empowering enterprises and developers to build next-generation conversational AI applications at scale.

Strategic Collaboration for Global Impact

Cartesia is advancing speech synthesis by pioneering the State Space Model architecture and applying it to real time voice. Its new Sonic 3 model, delivers low-latency, human-like expressiveness, and scalable concurrency. The 40+ languages supported plus emotion tags, accent localization, and custom pronunciations provide full control over personalized Voice AI experiences across the globe in real-time.

By integrating Tencent RTC technology, this partnership gains access to an enterprise-grade real-time communication backbone featuring more than 3,200 global nodes, sub-300ms worldwide latency, and advanced capabilities such as AI noise suppression and weak-network resilience, ensuring conversational AI applications run seamlessly even in diverse and challenging regions like Southeast Asia and Africa.

As part of their strategic partnership, Tencent Cloud and Cartesia have jointly launched a Conversational AI Demo, showcasing the seamless integration of Cartesia’s Sonic 3 with Tencent RTC’s real-time communication infrastructure. The demo highlights lifelike, low-latency voice interactions suitable for customer support, fintech, education, and entertainment scenarios. Interested developers and enterprises can experience the demo here: TRTC Conversational AI Demo. This collaboration is designed to make it easier for developers worldwide to build Voice AI applications across a wide range of use cases.

Wison Xie, Head of Product, Tencent RTC, said, “Leveraging our real-time communication expertise, we are excited to support Cartesia in redefining real-time voice AI experiences for enterprises and developers worldwide. Together, we are transforming conversational AI from a remarkable research achievement into a practical, real-world technology. This collaboration underscores our commitment to driving innovation, delivering operational excellence, and creating meaningful impact for customers across industries and markets.”

Aaron Melgar, GTM Lead at Cartesia, said, “Our partnership with Tencent RTC represents a major milestone in advancing real-time Voice AI for production applications. By integrating Cartesia’s Sonic 3 with Tencent RTC’s enterprise-grade global communication infrastructure, this collaboration delivers lifelike voice interactions with lightning-fast response times—powering mission-critical conversations and setting a new benchmark for the future of communication. We are thrilled to showcase these capabilities through the new Conversational AI Demo and look forward to deepening our partnership to shape the next generation of real-time voice AI experiences.”

About Tencent Cloud: 
Tencent Cloud, one of the world’s leading cloud companies, is committed to creating innovative solutions to resolve real-world issues and enabling digital transformation for smart industries. Through our extensive global infrastructure, Tencent Cloud provides businesses across the globe with stable and secure industry-leading cloud products and services, leveraging technological advancements such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics, AI, IoT, and network security. It is our constant mission to meet the needs of industries across the board, including gaming, media and entertainment, finance, healthcare, property, retail, travel, and transportation.

About Tencent RTC: 
Tencent RTC provides real-time communication solutions, including audio/video calling, live streaming, and in-game voice. With enterprise-grade security, AI-powered enhancements, and a global network of over 3,200 nodes, Tencent RTC powers mission-critical communication for customers worldwide.

About Cartesia: 
Cartesia is a Frontier AI Foundation Model Research Lab specializing in Voice AI. The founding team developed the State Space Model architecture during their time together at Stanford University before founding the company in 2024. Cartesia’s latest Sonic 3 model delivers ultra-low latency, human-like expressiveness, and enterprise-grade reliability for next-generation voice applications. Headquartered in the U.S., Cartesia has raised over $100M from leading investors and serves thousands of global customers.

Riyue Bay Surf Resort Opens to Kick Off 2026 Hainan Marine Tourism Year

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WANNING, China, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — China Tourism Group unveiled Riyue Bay Surf Resort, the country’s first surfing-themed resort on November 11, in a vibrant ceremony blending athletic spectacle, artistic performance, and next-gen surfing culture at Riyue Bay in Wanning, Hainan province.

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A Grand Opening: Where Art Meets Professional Surfing

The ceremony kicked off with “Ocean Breeze in Blue,” a performance by the Hainan Provincial Song and Dance.

During the event, top surfers from China, Brazil, and Australia took on the custom 6MCFLY aerial wave, performing high-flying rotations and technical maneuvers to experience the power and precision of the cutting-edge surf technology.

Engineered Waves: A New Professional Destination

Positioned as the “spiritual home for wave riders,” Riyue Bay Surf Resort caters to all skill levels—from first-time surfers to elite professionals—through its signature Four Wave Levels featuring Large, Medium, Small, and Micro wave profiles.

The resort offers China’s first Olympic-grade surf lagoon, powered by advanced pneumatic wave technology. The system generates 23 dialed-in, pro-ready wave settings, enabling consistent, year-round surfing unaffected by weather or tides. The Four Wave Levels offer ideal conditions for learning, practice, and high-performance surfing.

A New Kind of Escape: Redefining Coastal Lifestyle

Moving beyond conventional tourism models, the resort integrates sport, hospitality, retail, and culture into a seamless coastal lifestyle experience.

Accommodation options include the creatively designed and the UECHAO Hotel, which UECHAO Hotel inspiration from the surrounding landscape, from the reef rock formations to the movement of the ocean. Together, they offer 132 uniquely styled guest rooms, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in a stay shaped by waves, rhythm, and coastal energy.

The resort’s lifestyle retail district X-Livin High Street, developed in collaboration with young entrepreneurs, serves as a social and retail hub. It brings together the live-music stage LIVEHOUSE, beach club, BISTRO, specialty coffee outlets, Southeast Asian cuisine, and outdoor lifestyle brands—creating a dynamic environment where sport, art, and contemporary culture converge.

The resort has curated a series of cultural and lifestyle events: an island life festival and market, group fitness runs, skateboarding sessions, a drone light show over the sea, floating cinema screenings, and fire dance performances.

Looking ahead, Riyue Bay Surf Resort aims to turn the philosophy of “creating waves, not just waiting for them” into a new kind of coastal getaway for surfing enthusiasts and modern travelers, while setting a new benchmark for style-driven, surf-centric oceanfront living.

At Least Eight Dead as Southern Thailand Floods Hit Nearly 2 Million

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At Least Eight Dead as Southern Thailand Floods Hit Nearly 2 Million
Khao Chong Wildlife and Nature Study Center, Nayong District, Trang Province (photo credit: Khaosod)

Southern Thailand is confronting its most severe flooding in over three centuries as relentless monsoon rains have killed at least eight people and affected nearly 2 million residents across 10 provinces. 

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Taiwan Smart Tourism Alliance Targets Vietnamese Travelers with Exclusive Taiwan Travel Packages

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach Newswire – 25 November 2025 – Due to the rapid growth of Vietnam’s travel market, the Taiwan Smart Tourism Alliance, led by KKday, has invited a range of small- and medium-sized specialty travel operators from across northern, central, and southern Taiwan—including transportation services, tourist attractions, travel experiences, hotel accommodations, and restaurants—to jointly develop a curated “One-Week Round-Island Tour,” leveraging B2C, B2B, and B2B2C business models to expand into the Vietnamese market.

Taiwan Smart Tourism Alliance Targets Vietnamese Travelers with Exclusive Taiwan Travel Packages

To increase brand awareness among Vietnamese travelers and strengthen collaboration with local tourism operators, the alliance introduced a new service: “Exclusive Taiwan Gift & Travel Package for Vietnamese Travelers.” Under this initiative, customers who purchase alliance member products will receive either a Taiwan travel SIM card or a Taiwanese bubble tea gift box, offering both practical travel benefits and an authentic experience of Taiwanese culture.

The new service was simultaneously launched on KKday’s Vietnam website, with a dedicated campaign page and comprehensive promotion through Instagram, Facebook, in-app notifications, EDMs, blog articles, and keyword advertising. The alliance also held an online briefing event to boost visibility and engagement. To further strengthen its market presence, the alliance organized the “Taiwan Smart Tourism x Vietnam Tourism Exchange and MOU Signing Event” in Hanoi, engaging directly with local travel suppliers. During the event, the alliance signed MOUs with Vietnam travel companies, SeA Travel and Mustgo, to introduce the new Taiwan travel services to the Vietnamese market. The impact of the event was further amplified through coverage by local Vietnamese media, ultimately generating overseas business opportunities exceeding USD 800,000.

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Xinhua Silk Road: Inner Mongolia’s Xing’an League accelerates dev’t of green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol industry

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BEIJING, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — A green energy transition is underway across Xing’an League in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with the Xing’an League Economic and Technological Development Zone becoming a core hosting location for the green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol industry.

From technological breakthroughs to industrial applications, the zone is spearheading rapid growth in the green energy industry.

Xing’an League boasts various energy resources, with estimated developable capacity of wind and solar energy reaching 36 million kilowatts, 5 billion cubic meters of total water resources from 315 rivers, and over 7 million tonnes of biomass resources.

This unique resource endowment constitutes precisely the “natural foundation” needed by the green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol industry.

The Xing’an League Economic and Technological Development Zone has established a centralized conversion platform for the league’s green resources through systematic planning, converting them into viable materials for sustained industrial development and laying a solid foundation for future project implementation and technological breakthroughs.

To truly transform potential resource dividends into tangible industrial competitiveness, the zone leverages infrastructure and the policy system to drive development of the green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol industry.

According to Gao Tianyu, director of the Administrative Committee of the zone, the zone has invested a total of 6 billion yuan in infrastructure development by 2025 to ensure the smooth implementation and development of relevant projects.

Supportive policies at the national, autonomous region and the zone levels also help optimize the business environment for relevant enterprises to do business and carry out projects locally.

As of 2025, the zone has attracted leading enterprises such as Goldwind, CGN, and Mingyang Smart Energy, with the green hydrogen-ammonia-methanol industry initially taking shape.

According to the development blueprint, the zone will establish an industrial cluster capable of producing 700,000 tonnes of green hydrogen, 2 million tonnes of green ammonia, and 3 million tonnes of green methanol, driving output value across the upstream and downstream industrial chains to exceed 50 billion yuan.

Currently, the zone has gathered 736 relevant enterprises, established an innovation echelon led by high-tech enterprises, and forged a modern industrial system, becoming a crucial industrial platform advancing green transformation in eastern Inner Mongolia.

Beyond achieving breakthroughs in key technologies, the zone has also established a comprehensive industrial close-loop encompassing equipment manufacturing, green hydrogen production, green ammonia and methanol preparation, and waste material recycling.

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Advantech Partners with D3 Embedded to Supercharge AMRs with Integrated Sense and Compute Package

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TAIPEI, Nov. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The robust package leverages Advantech’s Intel Core Ultra solutions, RealSense™ Depth GMSL2 Cameras, and DesignCore® Discovery PRO Series GMSL2 Cameras to enhance AI-powered sense and compute capabilities for AMRs in industrial applications.

Advantech Partners with D3 and Intel RealSense
Advantech Partners with D3 and Intel RealSense

Advantech, a global leader in AIoT and Edge Computing announced its collaboration with D3 Embedded, a leading global end-to-end edge AI solution provider for performance-critical applications. This collaboration leverages Advantech’s AFE-R360/R760 solutions based on Intel Core Ultra, RealSense™ Depth D457 GMSL2 Cameras, and D3 Embedded’s customizable DesignCore® Discovery ISX031 PRO Series GMSL2 Cameras to enhance AI-powered object sensing and recognition capabilities, expanding visual applications for Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs). This advanced AMR solution targets key industrial applications including manufacturing, warehouse, and retail automation.

Next-Generation End-To-End Machine Vision Platform for AMRs

AMR platforms rely heavily on vision sensor accuracy and computing performance in order to run real-time object detection, thereby achieving full robotic autonomy. Paired with the AFE-R360 and AFE-R760, D3 Embedded’s DesignCore Discovery PRO Series Cameras contain the proven Sony® ISX031 sensor, IP67 ingress protection, and features High Dynamic Range (HDR) and LED Flicker Mitigation (LFM) for high performance in dynamic lighting conditions. Additionally, the RealSense Depth D457 Cameras enable high bandwidth stereo depth vision.

Advantech AFE-R360, a 3.5″ SBC supports up to 8 MIPI-CSI lanes for low-latency visible camera inputs, and 3 x LAN & 3 x USB-C for depth and LiDAR sensors. Through an Advantech custom-designed camera I/O card, AFE-R360 can support 6 x GMSL cameras concurrently, which enables the streaming of 360° panoramic views. Its sister system with a chassis, AFE-R760, supports 4 x GMSL cameras. To facilitate the onboarding process, Advantech allows developers to collect MIPI and GMSL camera data from custom ROS Nodes in Advantech’s Robotic Suite, a software development resource provided by Advantech.

Both the AFE-R360 and AFE-R760 are built on the Intel Core™ Ultra (code name: Meteor Lake-H/U) platform, which has an integrated GPU that delivers up to 32 TOPs of AI performance. Additionally, they can connect with external MXM-type GPUs, e.g. Intel Arc or NVIDIA’s Quadro series. 

“D3 Embedded is committed to providing developers with the specialized tools they require to create next-generation AI sense and compute solutions for industrial use cases.” said Scott Reardon, CEO at D3 Embedded. “By collaborating with Advantech on this AMR package, D3 Embedded can help customers get their unique products to market faster and deploy edge solutions at scale.”

D3 Embedded accelerates advanced perception for autonomous machines by offering end-to-end solutions integrating camera and radar sensors, connectivity, custom embedded electronics, and AI. Their software and hardware design services, off-the-shelf and customizable products, and AI development capabilities can be customized for use cases in the automotive, industrial, robotics, medical, aerospace, and defense (ITAR) markets.

“At Advantech, we are devoted to enabling more robots in more scenarios. Our collaboration with D3 Embedded brings together cutting-edge compute and sensing technologies to empower AMRs with the vision and performance needed for true autonomy.” said Sandy Chen, Senior Director of Advantech North America. “This partnership exemplifies our mission to enable an intelligent planet through innovation and strategic collaboration.”

Advantech vows to make AI-powered autonomous robots more available by offering integrated sensing, compute, and software development resources, as well as camera, IMU, LiDAR, motor controllers, wireless communication modules, and industrial display panels. Its integrated controllers for robotic and autonomous systems offer a seamless development environment for ROS and Autoware.

Learn more about Advantech and D3 Embedded’s Embedded Vision Platform for AMRs: https://www.d3embedded.com/solutions/embedded-vision-platform-for-autonomous-mobile-robots/ 

Media contact:
Cindy Liu
Robotics Marketing, Advantech
Cindy.liu@advantech.com 

About Advantech

Advantech has the corporate vision to “Enable an Intelligent Planet”. The company is a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms. To embrace the trends of IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence, Advantech promotes IoT hardware and software solutions with the industrial IoT platform, WISE-IoT core, to assist business partners and clients in connecting their industrial chains. Advantech is also working with business partners to co-create business ecosystems that accelerate the goal of industrial intelligence. Learn more about Advantech autonomous robot solutions at https://campaign.advantech.online/en/AMR-Robotic-Solutions/ .

About D3 Embedded

D3 Embedded is a U.S.-based company that develops end-to-end solutions integrating sensors, connectivity, embedded processing and AI to deliver advanced perception for performance-critical applications. Using its proven DesignCore® product platforms and stage-gate development process, D3 Embedded helps its customers minimize the cost, schedule, and technical risks of product development for performance-critical applications. D3 Embedded is an Intel® Gold Partner. The company holds expertise in autonomous machines and robotics, electrification, sensing, imaging and optics, edge computing and detection algorithms. To support its products and services, the company offers ODM customization of hardware and software, validation testing and in-house manufacturing services. Learn more at www.D3Embedded.com.

Lao Central Bank Cuts Base Interest Rate to Support Economic Growth

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The Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) announced on 20 November that it is reducing the 7-day base interest rate from 9% to 8.5% per annum. The decision followed the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Meeting IV for 2025, chaired by Governor Bounkham Vorachit.

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