— Taipei and Vietnam Forums to Deliver Actionable Strategies for Tackling Localization, Tax Complexity, and AI-Driven Growth —

TAIPEI, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In response to the accelerating trend of global supply chain restructuring and the adoption of the “China + N” expansion model, Yonyou Taiwan, a premier provider of enterprise software, has initiated a crucial “Cross-Border Transformation Forum” series across six cities. This initiative is designed to directly address the critical challenges Taiwanese businesses face in international operations, spanning tax compliance, regulatory hurdles, and comprehensive digital modernization.

The forum series kicks off on November 6 in Taipei at the Courtyard by Marriott Taipei Downtown, followed by the second event on December 12 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, at The Reverie Saigon. Yonyou is co-hosting these events with major industry leaders, including Alibaba Cloud, Ernst & Young (EY), Mirle Automation, to deliver practical strategies and integrated digital solutions covering finance, operations, compliance, and AI-driven growth. More details and registration: https://www.yonyou.com.tw/globalsix/

Vietnam: Navigating Opportunities and Operational Risks

Vietnam stands as a primary destination for manufacturing shifts, leveraging its strategic geography and favorable costs. However, this expansion brings significant operational complexities:

• Regulatory Divergence: Managing inconsistent tax and legal frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
• Capital Mobility: Addressing limited transparency and friction in cross-border fund flows.
• Localization Barriers: Overcoming high hurdles in adapting management and operational systems locally.
• Cyber Risks: Dealing with escalating concerns over cloud security and data governance.

Moreover, many local ERP systems in Vietnam lack the maturity to handle advanced requirements critical for multinational firms, such as multi-ledger accounting, dual GAAP compliance (IFRS and local standards), and dynamic consolidated reporting. This operational gap underscores the urgent need for robust, globally capable digital solutions.

YonBIP: The Comprehensive Platform for Global Smart Operations

Leveraging over two decades of global deployment expertise, Yonyou’s flagship platform, YonBIP, is purpose-built to facilitate seamless multinational operations. It provides a powerful, integrated solution combining:

• Global Financial and Management Accounting
• International Tax Compliance Services
• Multinational Shared Service Centers (SSC)

YonBIP empowers enterprises to:

• Achieve streamlined multi-language, multi-currency, and multi-tax jurisdiction consolidation.
• Implement parallel accounting for simultaneous compliance with IFRS and local GAAP.
• Utilize automated features for tax filings and secure e-document archiving.
• Benefit from 24/7 global cloud services backed by essential localized technical support.

Crucially for the region, Yonyou provides a localized compliance module and dedicated tax package for the Vietnam market, guaranteeing rapid, fully compliant, and secure market entry.

Strategic Partnerships: Co-Creating a Smarter Global Future

The forum series brings together key partners offering specialized expertise to accelerate cross-border success:

• Alibaba Cloud: Secures the digital backbone with integrated “device-network-security” solutions for global cloud infrastructure and data protection.
• Ernst & Young (EY): Offers expert guidance on international tax compliance and practical strategies for accessing government incentives and grants.
• Mirle Automation: Showcases the latest in smart factory technologies, including AMHS (Automated Material Handling Systems), AGV, and intelligent warehousing.
• Yonyou: Demonstrates its AI-powered global ERP platform which supports end-to-end operations—Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing—across multiple currencies, languages, and time zones.

The sessions are strategically designed to help attendees transform global risks into actionable growth opportunities, with discussions focusing on “New Thinking for Global Expansion,” “AI-Driven Smart Manufacturing,” and best practices for “Grant Application and Tax Strategy.”

Event Information

More details and registration: https://www.yonyou.com.tw/globalsix/

About Yonyou Taiwan

Over the past 14 years, Yonyou Taiwan has built a strong customer base that includes many of Taiwan’s leading enterprises, such as Uni-President Group, Carrefour, Want Want Group, Walsin Lihwa, Synnex, Eslite, Janfusun Fancyworld, Vitalon Foods, and AECOM. Committed to long-term investment in the Taiwan market, Yonyou Taiwan continues to deliver localized, high-quality services that support the digital transformation of Taiwanese businesses operating across Greater China. The company also provides real-time IT solutions tailored for multinational companies and foreign enterprises in Taiwan.

To meet the increasing demand for global cloud services and enhance operational efficiency, Yonyou has also established an overseas data center in Singapore, offering secure, reliable, and real-time cloud-based services to its international clients.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SPX FLOW, Inc., a global leader in process solutions for the nutrition, health and industrial markets, is announcing the expansion of an integrated service center at its Shanghai (Xidu) facility in China. The upgraded space increased the current space from 2,700 to 12,000 square meters, enabling the company to better support growing customer demand for parts, maintenance and lifecycle services across China and the broader Asia-Pacific region. The Shanghai facility serves as a strategic hub for SPX FLOW’s Mixing Solutions, Pump Solutions and Nutrition & Health businesses, supporting industries ranging from food and beverage to general industrial processing.

With enhanced warehouse logistics and streamlined service workflows, SPX FLOW can now manage more complex projects, shorten delivery times and maintain consistent output even during peak demand. The expansion also coincides with the site’s 20th anniversary, marking two decades of service and continued investment in customers across China and the Asia-Pacific region.

To see an image of the new building, please see here: https://www.spxflow.com/assets/WebJPG1000px/xidu-factory-side-view–3-logos.jpg

“For two decades, our Shanghai Xidu site has been a cornerstone of SPX FLOW’s support for customers in China and across Asia-Pacific,” said Bruce Wang, Director of APAC Operations at SPX FLOW. “This expansion honors that legacy while preparing us for the next 20 years by investing in a service capacity our customers can count on.”

Making the Most of the Additional 9,300 Square Meters:

• A dedicated Spare Parts Distribution Center for Nutrition & Health technologies now enables faster deliveries of homogenizers, hygienic pumps, valves and more. The added capacity allows the site to stock two to three times more high-demand parts, ensuring quicker response times and improved service reliability.
• An enhanced Plate Heat Exchanger After-Sales Service Center, now equipped with advanced tools and optimized processes, delivers faster turnaround times and expanded capability to serve industrial customers across the region.
• Large-scale solar panels also span the roof of the new building, converting clean, renewable energy into power for daily operations and reducing reliance on traditional energy sources. This investment is expected to cut energy waste by roughly 10% each month, reinforcing the company’s commitment to operating efficiently and sustainably.

To learn more about SPX FLOW sites around the world, visit: https://www.spxflow.com/capabilities/innovation-centers

About SPX FLOW, Inc.
Based in Charlotte, N.C., SPX FLOW, Inc. improves the world through innovative and sustainable solutions. The company’s product offering is concentrated in process technologies that perform mixing, blending, fluid handling, separation, thermal heat transfer and other activities that are integral to processes performed across a wide variety of nutrition, health, and industrial markets. SPX FLOW has operations in more than 25 countries and sales in more than 140 countries. To learn more about SPX FLOW, please visit www.spxflow.com.

Media Contact:
Melissa Buscher, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer
Melissa.Buscher@spxflow.com

TAIPEI and SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Senhwa Biosciences’s investigational new drug Silmitasertib (CX-4945) was recently featured in an official post by Google DeepMind, following a major breakthrough by the tech giant’s biological artificial intelligence (AI) system.

DeepMind reported that its latest AI model successfully generated and experimentally validated a new hypothesis for cancer treatment, calling it “a milestone for AI in science.” Through large-scale analysis of tumor cell data and more than 4,000 potential drug candidates, DeepMind’s model identified CX-4945 as a key molecule that significantly enhances antigen presentation—a crucial process that enables the immune system to recognize and attack tumor cells.

This groundbreaking finding suggests that CX-4945 could unlock a new therapeutic direction in cancer immunotherapy, potentially transforming how “cold tumors”—those invisible to immune cells—can be converted into “hot,” immune-responsive ones.

AI-Driven Biomedical Innovation: Turning Cold Tumors Hot

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “With further preclinical and clinical testing, this discovery could reveal a promising new avenue for developing anti-cancer therapies.”

Developed in collaboration with Yale University, DeepMind’s C2S-Scale model, built on the Gemma architecture and comprising 27 billion parameters, successfully predicted that inhibiting protein kinase CK2 with CX-4945 could significantly increase MHC-I expression and antigen presentation—a concept never previously documented in scientific literature.

Follow-up laboratory studies confirmed these hypotheses: when human neuroendocrine cells were treated with CX-4945 and low-dose interferon, antigen presentation increased by approximately 50%, making tumor cells more visible to immune attack.

Silmitasertib Recognized in DeepMind’s Research Findings

Silmitasertib (CX-4945) is Senhwa’s first-in-class CK2 inhibitor, currently under clinical development across multiple cancer indications. To date, the compound has been administered to hundreds of patients worldwide, demonstrating a favorable safety profile and encouraging efficacy signals.

In the United States, CX-4945 has been selected by the Beat Childhood Cancer Research Consortium and is now being evaluated in collaboration with the Penn State Health Children’s Hospital for the treatment of relapsed pediatric solid tumors.

Being identified and validated by Google DeepMind’s advanced AI platform not only strengthens the scientific foundation of CX-4945, but also highlights its strategic potential in the next generation of cancer immunotherapies.

A New Era of AI-Enabled Drug Discovery

DeepMind researchers noted that scaling biological AI models not only enhances prediction accuracy but also enables the generation of entirely new, testable scientific hypotheses. This integration of AI-driven simulation with experimental validation represents a new paradigm for biomedical discovery and drug development.

Although this research remains in the preclinical stage, it marks a transformative moment for the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine. Senhwa believes that, through continued collaboration between AI innovation and clinical science, CX-4945 could accelerate its path toward becoming a breakthrough immuno-oncology therapy that benefits cancer patients globally.

As Taiwan’s biopharmaceutical innovation gains international recognition, Senhwa aims for its CX-4945 program to stand alongside the nation’s semiconductor success — becoming a new “National Shield” for global health.

News source:
https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

LISMORE, Australia, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Southern Cross University (Australia) and NSBM Green University (Sri Lanka) will sign a groundbreaking partnership this Friday, 24 October, to deliver an offshore program that will allow Sri Lankan students to earn Australian degrees locally at NSBM – without needing to relocate to Australia.

This collaboration aims to expand access to globally recognised qualifications, enhance academic mobility, and deliver industry-aligned learning, while advancing joint research, enabling staff and student exchange, and strengthening ties between Australia and Sri Lanka.

“This initiative will provide highly cost-effective, world-class education to Sri Lankan students who can save a substantial amount on tuition and living expenses,” said Associate Dean (International & Engagement) Professor Darshana Sedera, who pioneered this program.

“This program will offer students a seamless pathway to transfer credits or continue their postgraduate studies at Southern Cross University in Australia,” said Professor Sedera. “At NSBM, we will launch the program with a Bachelor of Business in January 2026, with plans to later expand into information technology and health degrees. The collaboration will also involve Southern Cross University academics from Australia visiting NSBM regularly to deliver face-to-face teaching and engage in impactful research alongside NSBM staff and students.”

“We look forward to working closely with NSBM over the coming months and years, sharing knowledge, expertise, and best practices to drive mutual benefit and growth. Together, we will foster new opportunities for research, education, and community engagement, ultimately enriching the lives of students, staff and communities in both Australia and Sri Lanka,” said Professor Mike Ewing, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University.

The program will integrate Southern Cross’ innovative SCU Model and high academic standards with NSBM’s strong local infrastructure and faculty support, ensuring students receive the same quality education as their counterparts in Australia.

“We are excited to partner with Southern Cross University to offer their renowned, job-ready business programs at NSBM Green University. This collaboration provides our students with the opportunity to earn an Australian degree locally, equipping them with practical skills and industry-focused knowledge needed to succeed in a global economy and be workforce-ready,” said Professor. E.A. Weerasinghe, Vice-Chancellor at NSBM Green University.

This program ensures industry alignment, equipping graduates with globally relevant skills, and marks a significant step toward advancing accessible, high-quality education in Sri Lanka.

A Celebration of Family Traditions and Elevated Seaside Living

BALI, Indonesia, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On the storied shores of Nusa Dua, The St. Regis Bali Resort proudly announces an exclusive collaboration with Vilebrequin, the iconic French luxury swimwear house from Saint-Tropez. Launching across select St. Regis resorts worldwide, the partnership introduces a limited-edition Family Capsule Collection alongside curated resort experiences designed to celebrate coastal living with refined sophistication.

A Capsule Collection Inspired by Family Traditions

At the heart of the collaboration lies the St. Regis x Vilebrequin Family Capsule Collection, a fusion of timeless elegance and Vilebrequin’s playful spirit.

The collection features exclusive swimwear for men, women, and children, complemented by pareos, plush towels, tote bags, and beach toys for little explorers. Each piece is adorned with vibrant illustrations inspired by cherished seaside moments, from building sandcastles under the sun to sailing on open waters, enhanced by a bespoke stripe pattern created exclusively for this collaboration.

Available from September 2025 through March 2026, the collection can be discovered at La Boutique within The St. Regis Bali Resort and select St. Regis resorts worldwide.

Immersive Experiences Beyond the Boutique

The collaboration transforms the resort into a stylish sanctuary where Vilebrequin’s playful designs meet St. Regis’s legendary elegance.

Along the golden sands of Nusa Dua, the beachfront Vista Bar adopts a vibrant new look, with co-branded umbrellas, cushions, and cabanas creating a chic seaside retreat.

Guests are invited to indulge in a bespoke dining journey at Vista Bar, featuring a specially curated menu of light, coastal-inspired seafood dishes paired with refreshing cocktails infused with a Vilebrequin twist.

Beyond dining, families can enjoy curated activities such as pony rides through lush gardens, sandcastle-building competitions, and interactive workshops at the resort’s Children’s Learning Center.

For ocean lovers, the experience continues with exclusive water-based adventures, from snorkeling in crystal-clear waters over thriving coral reefs to stand-up paddle yoga on custom-designed Vilebrequin boards and surfing lessons tailored to every skill level.

The Family Traditions Package

To complement the collaboration, The St. Regis Bali Resort introduces a Family Traditions Package designed to elevate family stays.

The package offers 20% savings on a second room for children up to 21 years old, complimentary dining for children under 12, and full access to the resort’s engaging Children’s Learning Center.

Completing the experience, the hallmark St. Regis Butler Service ensures every detail is flawlessly orchestrated, from unpacking the capsule wardrobe to arranging personalized family itineraries filled with memorable seaside moments.

A Shared Vision of Playful Sophistication

“At The St. Regis Bali Resort, each day unfolds in a palette of sun, sea, and shared moments,” said Héctor Busto, General Manager. “Our partnership with Vilebrequin brings Bali’s coastal charm to life, blending the resort’s family traditions with a spirited sense of style and sophistication.”

Availability

The St. Regis x Vilebrequin Family Capsule Collection and exclusive activations will launch in September 2025 and run through March 2026.

Guests can explore and purchase the collection at La Boutique within The St. Regis Bali Resort, with select pieces also available at St. Regis resorts worldwide, including Riviera Maya, Los Cabos, Bora Bora, Langkawi, Abu Dhabi, and more.

Discover more with our St. Regis x Vilebrequin Booklet or visit our website at www.stregisbali.com for additional information.