Month: 2025-08

HONG KONG, Aug 7, 2025 - (ACN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) - FWD Group Holdings Ltd ('FWD'; 1828.HK) today announced, under its exclusive 'FWD Private' brand, the completion of a high-net-worth (HNW) hub in Asia and the full deployment of a new FWD Private Lounge in Hong Kong.Leveraging FWD Group's strong network, FWD's HNW business operates out of three jurisdictions: Hong Kong, Singapore and Bermuda, with both onshore and offshore insurance solutions for HNW and ultra HNW customers worldwide.FWD Private, established in 2023, offers comprehensive legacy planning solutions and services for HNW and ultra HNW individuals. The FWD Private Lounge, located in the prime commercial district in Hong Kong, is inspired by the tourbillon - a symbol of time and precision.Ken Lau, Managing Director of Greater China and Hong Kong Chief Executive Officer, FWD, said, "The completion of the HNW hub reflects our long-term vision and reinforces FWD's position as a trusted partner in wealth and legacy planning across Asia and beyond. Building on our strong foundation in Hong Kong, and our ability now to service other markets including Southeast Asia and the Middle East, we're well-positioned to navigate diverse markets and tailor solutions that empower customers and their families to truly celebrate living."In Bermuda and Singapore, FWD Private recently launched Imperial Fortune – an indexed universal life (IUL) product that combines uncapped index returns with a minimum guaranteed point to point return of 2.3% per annum. FWD Hong Kong also launched its own IUL product, which was among the first wave of offerings in the market, in response to recent regulatory guidance from the Insurance Authority and Hong Kong Monetary Authority.Shelyne Shum, Chief Partnership Distribution Officer who leads the strategic partnership business for FWD in Hong Kong and for FWD Private, said, "Through FWD Private, we've built a compelling proposition anchored in time-to-market agility, product and service innovation, and exceptional client experience. The FWD Private Lounge is designed for preferred partners to host exclusive engagements and deliver a refined, personalised experience to our customers."FWD Private's products are primarily distributed via international brokers across Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and Switzerland, who provide personalised services and innovative wealth planning solutions to HNW and ultra HNW customers worldwide. FWD Private operates in Bermuda under FWD Life Insurance Company (Bermuda) Limited. A Singapore branch was established in 2024.About FWD GroupFWD Group is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business that serves approximately 30 million customers across 10 markets, including BRI Life in Indonesia. FWD's customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products and a simpler insurance experience. Established in 2013, the company operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets in the world with a vision of changing the way people feel about insurance. FWD Group is listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited under the stock code 1828.For more information, please visit www.fwd.comAbout FWD PrivateFWD Private is a new horizon in legacy planning for high-net-worth individuals.Dedicated to the growth, preservation and protection of wealth, FWD Private brings an innovative approach and fresh perspective to its customised solutions in wealth planning, giving customers an unparalleled experience.With its hub in Asia, FWD Private's cultural understanding ensures that the challenges of managing customers' wealth is navigated with meticulous attention to detail, supported by digital infrastructure that provides the flexibility and dynamism that customers desire.As a distinct yet integrated part of the overall FWD Group, FWD Private benefits from FWD Group's financial strength, stability and investments in digital innovation.For more information, please visit www.fwdprivate.com Copyright 2025 JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com.

HONG KONG, Aug 7, 2025 - (ACN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) - The 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC), themed “Empowering Robots with Intelligence, Enhancing Embodied Intelligence”, will officially kick off on August 8 at the Beijing Yichuang International Convention and Exhibition Center. As the largest edition to date, WRC 2025 serves as both a comprehensive review of the past decade of industry development and a full-spectrum preview of the first commercial year of humanoid robotics.This year’s event will welcome over 200 leading robotics companies from China and abroad, showcasing more than 1,500 exhibits, including 100+ global product debuts in humanoid robotics, core components, industrial automation, and service robotics. Three themed exhibition halls—Innovation, Application, and Technology—will illustrate the full integration of hardware and real-world application.1. Portfolio Companies Showcase Cutting-Edge Advances in Embodied IntelligenceAs a leader in smart infrastructure asset services in China, Shoucheng Holdings (0697.HK) will play a key role at WRC 2025, with seven of its core portfolio companies jointly exhibiting breakthroughs across humanoid robots, hardware modules, smart sensing systems, and foundation models. These companies represent one of the most complete “embodied intelligence ecosystems” in the industry today, with innovations spanning industrial automation, service collaboration, and education & research.Unitree Robotics: The world’s first company to retail high-performance quadruped robots and realize industry-scale adoption, with leading global shipments of both quadruped and humanoid robots.Booster Robotics: Developer of humanoid robots, operating systems, and toolchains focused on accelerating embodied intelligence deployment.Galbot: A general-purpose robotics company leveraging multi-modal embodied AI foundation models, already deployed across commercial, industrial, and medical settings.Galaxea-AI: Specializes in foundational AI models and embodied robotics research and development.Noetix Robotics: Focuses on general-purpose AGI bodies, bionic systems, and embodied operating systems.X Square Robot: Among the first in China to build end-to-end embodied AI models trained on real-world interaction data, enabling precision manipulation by general-purpose robots.Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center: The first Chinese company to offer full-stack embodied intelligence hardware & software solutions; co-founded by Shoucheng Holdings. Its platforms “Tiangong” (humanoid robot base) and “Huisi Kaiwu” (embodied AI platform) aim to lead global innovation and application.2. Hosting Core VC Forum: Building a Capital × Technology Convergence PlatformOn August 10, Shoucheng Holdings will host one of the most anticipated VC forums of WRC 2025—the 2025 Robotics Venture Capital Forum—co-organized with its industry community platform CanPlus, and supported by Kechuangban Daily and others. The forum will spotlight the theme of “The First Year of Mass Production for Robotics.”As an early mover in robotics investment, Shoucheng Holdings has built a full-cycle support system integrating equity investment, financing, deployment, and ecosystem incubation. Backed by the Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund, its industrial parks and infrastructure platforms help drive ecosystem collaboration and commercialization. This strong foundation enables Shoucheng to represent the VC sector and take the lead in shaping capital–technology convergence for robotics.The forum will gather founders of top Chinese robotics companies, investors, and research institutions for discussions on technical evolution, financing environments, and commercial implementation. Two high-profile lists will be announced onsite:2025 Top 20 Most Investable Robotics Companies in China2025 Top 30 Most Promising Growth Robotics Companies3. Enabling Scaled Deployment Through Industrial CapitalUnder its dual-engine strategy of capital operation + asset integration, Shoucheng Holdings has invested in dozens of robotics innovators through its managed funds. Its portfolio spans embodied intelligence, industrial automation, surgical robotics, and AI-driven perception and control.As a co-manager of the Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund, Shoucheng continues to promote alignment between technology and scenarios, capital and policy, accelerating the journey from lab to market, from prototype to scaled delivery.Event Details:WRC 2025: August 8–12, Beijing Yichuang International Convention and Exhibition CenterVC Forum: August 10 (afternoon), 2F Sub-Forum HallPosted by All Way Success Company Limited for Shoucheng Holdings www.shouchengholdings.com [HKSE:0697, FRA:SHVA, OTCPK:SHNHF] Copyright 2025 JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com.

TOKYO, Japan, August 6, 2025 - (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Honda today announced that the Fastport eQuad, an all-electric micromobility vehicle for last-mile delivery, has won the Red Dot: Best of the Best 2025 award in the Design Concept competition of the Red Dot Design Award*1. Moreover, two electric motorcycle concept models, the EV Fun Concept and the EV Urban Concept, were each named a Red Dot winner in the same competition, and the concept movie for the Honda V3 motorcycle engine, titled “New V3 Engine Concept Teaser,” was named the Red Dot winner in the Brand & Communication Design competition. About the Honda award-winning models and concept movieFastport eQuadThe Fastport eQuad is a single-rider micromobility delivery vehicle that supplements the rider's pedaling power with electric motor assistance. The Fastport eQuad realizes a powerful, smooth, quiet and zero-emission ride by combining a pedal-by-wire system, which electronically transmits the rider’s pedaling input to the driving force, with a pedal-assist powertrain, which boosts the rider’s pedaling with electric power. Honda designed the Fastport eQuad as a micromobility vehicle for use in bicycle lanes*2, enabling companies to improve the speed and efficiency of logistics in urban areas with complex traffic environments and heavy traffic congestion. Full-scale mass production of the Fastport eQuad is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2026 at a U.S. Honda facility.Key design featuresThe Fastport eQuad not only features a sleek design, but it is also thoughtfully engineered to ensure harmony with the real-world environments where it will be used. While using a bicycle as a motif, the design effectively incorporates transparent materials to enable the rider to intuitively recognize pedestrians and other road conditions in the surrounding area. The clear windshield ensures excellent visibility for the rider while also providing a view of the rider from the outside. A translucent cargo container was adopted to reduce the visual volume of the Fastport eQuad. EV Fun ConceptThe EV Fun Concept is Honda’s first electric sports model and is being developed as a next-generation electric motorcycle that offers a new sensation of quiet riding and an emotional feeling unique to electric motorcycles. In addition to the high level of “riding, turning, and stopping” created by long-developed Honda motorcycle technologies, the new quiet, vibration-free ride that is only possible with electric power and the slim, easy-to-manage chassis package realized by its fixed battery will provide a new emotional experience that is very different to internal combustion engine (ICE) motorcycles. The production model based on this concept model will be a naked sports model equivalent to a mid-sized (ICE) motorcycle and is scheduled to go on sale before the end of the current fiscal year (ending March 31, 2026) as the first Honda electric sports model equipped with a fixed battery. Key design featuresThe EV Fun Concept features a slim and seamless design that expresses its quiet yet overwhelming acceleration and sporty riding performance. By reducing the volume of the area where a gas tank would have been for an ICE model, a dynamic and horizontally-oriented silhouette was realized. The EV Fun Concept was designed as a bike that is not bound by existing motorcycle categories. The functional beauty was highlighted through the combination of a sleek body and mechanical functional parts.EV Urban ConceptThe EV Urban Concept reconstructs from scratch the Honda vision of what urban electric mobility should be. Featuring an intuitive human-machine interface (HMI) and the fusion of software and hardware, the EV Urban Concept offers a new experience for riders. The goal of Honda is to offer the freedom of mobility to as many customers as possible and to expand possibilities in each customer’s life through enhanced mobility. Key design featuresBased on the design direction for Honda electric motorcycles — the Precision of Intrinsic Design — the design team strived to create an essential and exquisite styling design realized by refining the functionality. Featuring minimalist and sophisticated styling that blends in with the urban landscape, the EV Urban Concept offers a new UX through the fusion of software and hardware, embodying the Honda vision of near-future mobility that cooperates and resonates with people and society. Honda V3 motorcycle engine with an electrical compressorIn order to create attractive motorcycle products that go beyond customer expectations, Honda is developing the world’s first*3 V3 motorcycle engine with an electrical compressor. By controlling compression of the intake air irrespective of engine rpm, high-response torque can be delivered even from lower rpm. In addition, the adoption of the engineering design that does not require an intercooler for the cooling of the compressors allows a high degree of freedom for component layout within the limited space available on a motorcycle, which can be leveraged to achieve a concentration of the mass and reduction of the vehicle weight. Key features of the concept movie, “New V3 Engine Concept Teaser”This concept movie showcases the journey of technological innovation Honda has pursued through continuous challenges in the field of motorcycle technologies, as well as the development process for the world’s first V3 motorcycle engine with an electrical compressor. With a rhythmically structured narrative, the movie deliberately incorporates glitch effects that momentarily disrupt the image to stimulate the viewer’s curiosity and anticipation. In the final scene of the movie, the actual sound of the electric compressor is used to convey a sense of excitement and momentum of the development toward the practical application to products and evoke high expectations for the future riding experiences this engine will offer. To powerfully express the “genuine commitment of Honda to carve out the future,” all individuals featured in this movie are real Honda engineers. Through the use of authentic footage showing countless discussions and repeated prototyping that took place at the site of the development, the movie production team strived to convey the passion and ambition Honda put into the development. Concept movie, “New V3 Engine Concept Teaser”Comments by Toshinobu Minami, Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, Design Center, Honda R&D Co., Ltd.“We are deeply honored to receive the award not only in the Design Concept competition, following last year’s recognition for the Honda 0 Series, but also in the Brand & Communication competition of the globally recognized Red Dot Design Award. We believe this recognition reflects the high regard for the ongoing initiatives of Honda Design that continues to create new value while striving to gain deep insights into changes happening in our business environment, the times and diverse lifestyles of people. Honda will pursue designs as well as a wide range of new value creation to continue to offer mobility products that bring surprise and inspiration to people’s daily lives.”Honda Design award historyhttps://global.honda/jp/design/work/#award (Japanese)https://global.honda/en/design/work/#award (English)*1 The Red Dot Award was founded in 1955 and has become one of the most respected design awards worldwide. The award is administered by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. For the Product Design competition, 51 categories of industrial products are judged on 9 criteria including the degree of innovation, functionality, durability and ergonomics.*2 The definition and standards for “bicycle lanes” vary by country. The Fastport eQuad is designed for bicycle lanes as defined by U.S. and European traffic systems, which may differ from the definition in the Japanese traffic system.*3 Honda internal research Copyright 2025 JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com.

KARIYA, JAPAN, August 6, 2025 - (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) - Dream Incubator Inc. (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President, Takayuki Miyake; “DI”) and DENSO CORPORATION (headquartered in Kariya, Aichi; President and CEO, Representative Member of the Board, Shinnosuke Hayashi; “DENSO”) are pleased to announce that their joint initiative, “Digital Platform Development for Mobility Circular Economy and Integrated Manufacturing for India by Collaboration with Open API Network in India and Japan”, has been selected under United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s “Industrial cooperation programme in the Global South through technology transfer from Japan”. *1Aim of This ProjectThrough this project, DI and DENSO strive to promote the development of value chains in India by enhancing the efficiency of the entire supply chain in the manufacturing sector and improving user convenience in the automotive aftermarket. This project will also boost the productivity and competitiveness of participating partners, as well as nurture talent that will strengthen the competitiveness of India’s manufacturing sector.In addition, applying the knowledge, expertise and experience gained through this project, DI will expand support activities for Japanese companies seeking to expand their global business from India. This includes end-to-end support from the development of concepts, strategies, and architectures to hands-on execution of product and business development (installation), and ultimately, the creation of innovation ecosystems. DENSO intends to deploy the use cases and technologies developed through this initiative not only in India, but also within Japan, with the broader ambition of contributing to other countries through reverse innovation.Project OverviewDate of Adoption: 15th July 2025Project Name: Digital Platform Development for Mobility Circular Economy and Integrated Manufacturing for India by collaboration with open API network in India and JapanPeriod: July 2025 - November 2027Project Description: This project aims to build an integrated digital platform, Solwer *2, designed to manage big data from India’s manufacturing supply chain and the automotive aftermarket value chain, along with the following applications that utilize this data. Demonstration activities will be conducted to support the implementation across Indian society.[5 Applications]1. Transport & Warehouse Management: A logistics optimisation platform that integrates vehicle, inventory, and transport quality management.2. Carbon Footprint Management: A GHG (greenhouse gas) management tool that visualizes CO2 emissions from manufacturing to after-sales service and supports the tracking, reporting, and reduction of Scope 1 to 3 emissions.3. KAIZEN IoT: An IoT solution that identifies and visualizes bottlenecks in manufacturing sites, supporting continuous improvement (KAIZEN) efforts.4. Mobility Aftermarket Super App: A one-stop application for booking and managing services such as repairs, car washes, and insurance, designed to simultaneously enhance user convenience and drive business profitability.5. Vehicle Digital Inspection: An AI-driven inspection tool that identifies vehicle exterior damage via smartphone or tablet and generates automated reports.This initiative builds on DI and DENSO’s respective track records of business activity in India. *3 Drawing on the achievements of their past collaboration and respective strengths, DI and DENSO are jointly driving this initiative, which contributes to the advancement of India’s manufacturing and mobility sectors.[Scheme for the Indian Social Implementation Project of an Integrated Digital Platform for the Manufacturing and Mobility Sector]*1 United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is conducting the programme “Industrial cooperation programme in the Global South through technology transfer from Japan” to promote technological innovation, strengthen supply chains and establish industrial infrastructure in Global South countries by supporting Japanese companies in conducting large-scale demonstrations, funded by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Government of Japan.*2 Solwer is a new business brand introduced by DENSO in Asia and India, offering data-driven solutions aimed at solving social challenges. For more details, please visit: https://solwerindia.com/*3 For more information on DI and DENSO’s past collaborative initiatives, please visit: https://www.dreamincubator.co.jp/en/business/support_case/denso/About Dream Incubator Inc.With the mission of “Create Business and Change Societies”, we support the creation & growth of new businesses & industries as “The Business Producing Company”. We support the expansion of our clients’ business value through business production that integrates realistic, hands-on management capabilities and highly executable strategies with Dream Incubator’s core strengths in fostering strategic alliances and driving momentum both within and outside the organization. https://www.dreamincubator.co.jp/en/About DENSO CORPORATIONGlobally headquartered in Kariya, Japan, DENSO is a 7,161.8 billion yen leading mobility supplier that develops advanced technology and components for nearly every vehicle make and model on the road today. With manufacturing at its core, DENSO invests in around 180 facilities worldwide to provide opportunities for rewarding careers and to produce cutting-edge electrification, powertrain, thermal and mobility electronics products, among others, that change how the world moves. In developing such solutions, the company’s 158,000 global employees are paving the way to a mobility future that improves lives, eliminates traffic accidents, and preserves the environment. DENSO spent around 8.6 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and development in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. https://www.denso.com/global Copyright 2025 JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com.