BEIJING, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China Daily:

A total of 79 tourism industry representatives from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan gathered in Hainan on Sept 25 — the Mid-Autumn Festival — together with their counterparts from the island province to turn a new page in cross-Strait cultural and tourism cooperation.

Thirty-three guests were from China’s Taiwan region, accounting for over 60 percent of the specially invited delegation and forming a core presence at the event. They represented leading industry bodies including the Travel Agent Association of Taiwan and the Taiwan Self-Drive Travel Association.

They undertook a seven-day, in-depth, round-island inspection tour of Hainan’s tourism sites, marking the longest route and the richest itinerary of the program.

Rising market figures underscore keen interest from Taiwan’s travel trade in Hainan. In the first eight months of this year, the province received 181,800 inbound visits from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and visits from Taiwan alone stood at 44,000. In 2024, Hainan registered 29,200 overnight visits from Taiwan.

Air connectivity took centre stage during panel discussions. Wu Ying-liang, chairman of the Travel Agent Association of Taiwan, has nearly four decades of experience in the sector and has witnessed Hainan’s transformation firsthand.

Hainan and Taiwan share similar climates, he said, making the island a year-round destination for Taiwanese visitors, while its healthcare and wellness facilities also hold strong appeal. He called on the two sides to work together on themed tourism products and promote two-way travel flows.

He acknowledged, however, that while arrivals from Taiwan keep climbing, growth has not kept pace with that of the 2017-19 period, with limited flight capacity standing as the main constraint.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, direct passenger flights linked Taipei and Kaohsiung with Haikou, as well as Taipei and Sanya. All services were suspended in 2020 amid the pandemic and other factors, and none have resumed to date.

Taiwanese visitors travelling to Hainan now mostly transit via Hong Kong, and lengthy layovers have dampened the appetite for travel and affected the travel experience. “Restoring direct flights and improving accessibility will undoubtedly bring more Taiwanese visitors to Hainan,” Wu said.

Wey Rong-jinn, chairman of Dollar Travel based in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung, examined the opportunity from a niche-market perspective. Before the pandemic, he recalled, direct flights from Kaohsiung to Hainan took only around two hours. Hainan’s mild winters and high-standard golf courses unlock great potential for golf tourism, he said.

According to incomplete statistics from the Chinese Taipei Golf Association, Taiwan is home to more than one million golf enthusiasts, most of whom travel to Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia for golf trips.

Should direct flights between Hainan and Taiwan resume, Wey suggested, this pool of golfers could be diverted to Hainan, unlocking substantial new business. “Even attracting 10,000 to 20,000 golfers in the initial phase would produce a remarkable effect,” he noted.

Chen Yi-hsuah, chairwoman of the Taipei Association of Travel Agents, shared practical ideas on leveraging the Mid-Autumn Festival as a seasonal tourism brand.

She sees Hainan as an ideal destination for family reunions during the festival, thanks to its pleasant climate and festive vibe. Cycling and heavy-motorcycle self-drive tours could be developed to cater specifically to corporate clientele from Taiwan, she added.

While showcasing Hainan’s tourism strengths, the Taiwanese delegation also voiced hope that the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports would press ahead with plans for cultural tourism study tours to Taiwan, to further strengthen exchanges across the Strait.

MUTSAMUDU, Comoros, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today announced the addition of another 1,000 BTC to its Guardian Fund, marking the second major BTC allocation to the fund this year. The latest addition follows MEXC’s May commitment to expand the Guardian Fund from $100 million to $500 million over two years, further strengthening the fund to keep pace with changing market conditions, security risks, and broader user protection needs.

Following the latest allocation, the Guardian Fund now comprises 100 million USDT and 2,000 BTC, further strengthening MEXC’s user protection reserves as the digital asset industry continues to face evolving security risks. A series of security incidents across the industry has highlighted the changing risk landscape facing crypto platforms and users. Recent attacks have again demonstrated that security threats are not static, and that user protection requires ongoing investment in capital reserves, technology, and risk-management infrastructure.

MEXC’s first 1,000 BTC allocation in May established Bitcoin as a long-term reserve component of the Guardian Fund alongside liquid USDT reserves. The latest addition marks the next stage of that strategy, reflecting MEXC’s approach to treating user protection as a continuously reinforced system rather than a reserve established at a single point in time. MEXC will continue strengthening the fund as its global user base, asset coverage, and operating environment grow and change.

MEXC has made its Guardian Fund holdings publicly traceable on-chain through disclosed wallet addresses, enabling users to independently verify the reserves. The additional BTC further strengthens the fund as MEXC continues working toward its $500 million target while investing in security, transparency, and risk-management infrastructure designed to protect users over the long term.

“Security and user protection is not a one-time investment. It is a continuous commitment,” said Vugar Usi, CEO of MEXC. “The risks facing digital asset platforms continue to evolve, and the resources behind user protection need to evolve with them. Adding another 1,000 BTC to the Guardian Fund reflects our long-term approach to building stronger protection for users and ensuring that the infrastructure behind that protection continues to grow with MEXC.”

Guardian Fund wallet addresses:

• USDT:https://etherscan.io/address/0x469AfE803C54A36674C55231489Cf4b61da8c1bC#tokentxns
• First BTC allocation: 1MDVjZdX8QD212pT8Z8EMP7DuFQHKqN3mx
• Second BTC allocation: 19KYQDpyssRUtpfa4pfAWiNQLeysThd1us

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With 0 trading fees, deep liquidity, broad asset coverage, and a high-performance trading experience, MEXC is designed for retail users who want to discover earlier, act faster, and trade with fewer barriers. As crypto and traditional finance continue to converge, MEXC is committed to making global opportunities more accessible, helping users trade freely and MEXCmize every opportunity.

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dar Global, the London-listed luxury international real estate developer, recently announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2026 (HY 2026), reporting a 66% revenue increase to US$258.0 million (HY 2025: US$155.4 million). The performance was driven by the Group’s projects and sustained demand across its diversified portfolio in the GCC, Europe, and the UK.

Gross profit rose 85% to US$87.7 million, expanding margins to 34% (from 31%). EBITDA increased 73% to US$46.3 million, while net profit surged 149% to US$30.4 million (HY 2025: US$12.2 million). Growth was anchored by revenue recognition from landmark projects, including The Astera, Interiors by Aston Martin and Neptune, Interiors by Mouawad.

Gross Development Value (GDV) nearly doubled year-on-year to US$23.0 billion, while cumulative contracted sales rose to US$3.9 billion across 4,380 units. The Group maintained a robust balance sheet with a Net Asset Value of US$613.3 million and total cash balances of US$847.9 million, including US$231.6 million in free cash, supporting total available liquidity of US$579.3 million.

In Saudi Arabia, the Group partnered with The Trump Organization in January to launch Rayana, a 2.6 million sq. m gated community in Diriyah featuring luxury mansions and a championship golf course, and later awarded a SAR 338 million (~US$90 million) infrastructure contract to Compass and Bin Omairah Company. Dar Global also unveiled Trump Plaza Jeddah (GDV US$383.6 million) and the adjacent Padel Living Residences (GDV US$142 million) within the Amaya masterplan.

In April, the Group closed a US$250 million syndicated term loan facility. In August, following the period, Dar Global appointed Gulf Asia Contracting to execute podium construction for the 80-storey, ~350-metre Trump International Hotel & Tower on Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road.

Ziad El Chaar, Chief Executive, commented: “We have delivered a resilient performance through uncertain times in the region, supported by the quality of our international portfolio. Buyer demand across our markets remained robust. Looking ahead, we remain focused on growing our GDV across both existing and new growth markets, while maintaining a disciplined focus on execution and delivery. With a strong balance sheet, disciplined capital management and a healthy project pipeline, Dar Global is well positioned to continue creating long-term value for its stakeholders.”

The private capital network for family offices has been in the hands of its 100 Founding Members since March and has already closed two of Mondevo Group’s own acquisitions.

ABU DHABI, UAE and GENEVA, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In November 2025, Mondevo Group announced its vision: to create a private capital network for global family offices, with AI at its core. Four months later the platform was live, ahead of plan. It is now open beyond its founding group.

Ittikar is where family offices analyse deals, invest and raise capital. Behind it sits a family office with a 25-year investment track record and relationships across 500 family offices. Mondevo Group used the platform to acquire Caruso, the Italian menswear house, in February, and Underscore District, the Milan-based brand accelerator behind Magliano, GR10K and the multi-brand retailer WOK Store, in August. Ittikar’s due diligence engine carried both deals from analysis through to completion.

“We did not launch Ittikar with a demonstration. We launched it on our own deals, with our own capital. The Group bought Caruso and Underscore District with the same engine our members use: the whole data room read and graded in days, every finding sourced, the investment committee memorandum drafted before the advisers would normally have finished their first pass.”
Fabio Brambilla, Co-founder, Ittikar and Mondevo Group

Mondevo Tech, the Group’s technology division, builds Ittikar in-house: more than 50 engineers directing 120 AI coding agents. It is developed in alignment with GDPR, NIS 2 and the EU AI Act. Each member family holds its data in its own sovereign Data Pod, in a jurisdiction of its choice, under its own encryption.

“A family’s data is the family’s. That principle determined the architecture, and it is why we built to the strictest European standards rather than the most convenient ones.”
Cristiano Motto, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Ittikar and Mondevo Group

The intelligence behind the platform is vertical. Every member has their own assistant, Itti, and the specialist agents behind it work in one domain: private markets. They are calibrated to each family’s investment profile, its Capital DNA™, and built on how a deal team reads a data room, how an investment committee weighs risk, and how a raise is structured and matched.

“Generic AI can summarise a document. It cannot take a family office through a transaction. Ittikar’s AI was built by people with experience executing real transactions and applying institutional investment standards. The AI does the analysis. Ittikar’s investment team reviews every deal before it is published on the platform. The family decides.”
Chris Shann, Head of Investment and AI Enablement, Ittikar

The Founding Members are deliberately diverse: founding families, single family offices, multi-family offices, entrepreneurs and family conglomerates, across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America, and across industries from consumer and luxury to real estate, finance, industry and Technology. With the first release complete, Ittikar now opens at tiered levels of membership. Details are at ittikar.com.

“Ittikar is a business enabled by AI. It analyses data at a depth no single family office could resource, and shortens the deal cycle from months to days. It is a buy-side platform, built for family offices, not a place where deals are sold to investors. Members see only what matches their Capital DNA™, rather than the unfiltered deal flow the market is used to.”
Hussam Otaibi, Founder, Ittikar and Mondevo Group

Development of the second release began in September. Like the first, it will run for nine months, with capabilities delivered progressively up to June 2027: portfolio analysis, monitoring and reporting in early 2027, negotiation tools in the second quarter, and by mid 2027 the ability for members to tokenise assets and settle co-investments on distributed ledgers, delivered through licensed partners. A first tokenisation proof of concept is planned before the end of this year.

Notes to editors

About Ittikar. Ittikar is the private capital network for global family offices, built by a family office and enabled by AI. It is where family offices analyse deals, invest and raise capital: institutional-grade due diligence, curated co-investment and direct capital raising on one buy-side platform, where every member sees only what matches its Capital DNA™. Live since March 2026. Part of the Mondevo Group.
www.ittikar.com

About Mondevo Group. Mondevo Group is a global private holding company operating at the intersection of investment, technology and luxury. It harnesses AI-native capabilities and a worldwide network of ultra-high-net-worth families to build enduring businesses in sectors with high barriers to entry and strong long-term growth. www.mondevogroup.com

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CHANGSHA, China, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zoomlion” or “the Company”) marked its 34th anniversary on September 28 with celebrations across its global operations under the theme “Youth in Bloom, Horizons Beyond.” The main event at Zoomlion Smart Industrial City in Changsha brought together company leaders and employees.

Employees from 22 countries delivered anniversary greetings in their own languages. Zoomlion’s industrial parks, overseas business hubs and regional operations also held local activities on the same day.

Over the past 34 years, Zoomlion has expanded from its early roots in construction machinery into a diversified equipment business with operations in markets around the world.

1992 | The beginning. Zoomlion was founded in Changsha by Zhan Chunxin and seven colleagues, with an initial focus on commercializing engineering research and bringing new construction machinery products to market.

First product | HBT40A concrete pump. Less than a year later, the team launched the HBT40A, Zoomlion’s first independently developed product. It entered a concrete pump market then largely dominated by imported equipment and became the company’s first step toward building a broader product portfolio.

1994 onward | Expanding the product range. Zoomlion quickly broadened its lineup. By 1994, it offered 78 models across concrete machinery, construction cranes and sanitation equipment. By 1996 annual output value had reached RMB 120 million. The expansion moved Zoomlion beyond a single product category and into several areas of equipment manufacturing.

2000-2010 | Entering the capital markets. Zoomlion listed A-shares on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2000 and H-shares in Hong Kong in 2010, becoming the first company in its industry with an A+H share listing. The listings supported further expansion as the company’s business and product portfolio continued to grow.

2002 onward | Adding new businesses. Through acquisitions and in-house development, Zoomlion expanded into foundation machinery, aerial work platforms and mining machinery. It also built capabilities in key components including control systems and hydraulics, broadening both its equipment portfolio and technical capabilities.

2006-2008 | Adapting to a larger business. As its product lines and operations expanded, Zoomlion introduced a divisional structure in 2006 to manage a larger and more diversified business. By 2008, annual revenue had exceeded RMB 10 billion.

One Zoomlion brand. As Zoomlion expanded into more businesses, some operations had developed under different brand names. The company later brought them together under the ZOOMLION brand, creating a unified identity across its domestic and international operations.

2008 onward | Expanding overseas. Zoomlion accelerated its international expansion with the acquisition of Italian concrete machinery manufacturer CIFA in 2008. Further overseas acquisitions followed, alongside the development of production bases, R&D centers and parts-supply operations outside China. The company also built local sales, service and parts-support capabilities in major international markets, extending its presence beyond product exports.

Today, Zoomlion’s businesses span construction, mining and agricultural machinery. The company operates 11 overseas R&D and manufacturing bases, and its products and services reach more than 170 countries and regions. International revenue now accounts for nearly 60% of total revenue. In key markets, Zoomlion combines local manufacturing with sales, service and parts support to respond more directly to customer needs.

As it enters its 35th year, Zoomlion plans to continue advancing diversification, globalization and digitalization, with a focus on high-end equipment, intelligent technologies and greener development. The company will continue investing in technology and localized operations, including the use of AI, robotics and new-energy technologies across its businesses. These investments will support product development and help the company serve customers across key global markets.