Manila – October 27, 2026 -- Two cadets sponsored by Teekay and the TK Foundation at Saint Joseph Institute of Technology (SJIT) Maritime Academy were named among the finalists for the Ten Outstanding Maritime Students of the Philippines (TOMSP). The field was drawn from approximately 50 nominees endorsed by 26 maritime institutions nationwide.

HANOI – October 27, 2026 -- Viettel High Technology Industries Corporation has migrated more than 100 million subscribers and about 5,000 tariff plans at Viettel, Vietnam's largest mobile operator, to its in-house cloud-native charging system vOCS 4.0. The three-month cutover ran on a live national network with no service disruption.

Miami – October 19, 2026 -- The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) will hold its 20th-anniversary gathering November 10–13 at Angsana Laguna Phuket in Thailand, positioning a $6.8 trillion global wellness economy around the theme "The Science, Art and Soul of Wellness."

Bali – October 19, 2026 -- ICANN87, the first ICANN public meeting held in Indonesia, opened with more than 200 working sessions on DNS Abuse mitigation, Domain Name System security and the New gTLD Program.

The six-day meeting is co-hosted by the Indonesian Internet Domain Name Registry (PANDI). Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs and the Bali Provincial Government are supporting it. Attendees include government representatives, businesses, technical experts and civil society.

Manila – October 19, 2026 -- Salmon Group, a technology-driven banking and lending platform in the Philippines, has secured an additional $140 million in financing to expand its lending operations in the country.

Financing combines $90 million in commitments with $50 million in bond proceeds

The round consists of $90 million committed by Spice Expeditions, WashU and Moore, plus $50 million of bond proceeds.

Singapore – October 18, 2026 -- HistoIndex and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly run preclinical evaluation and characterization of therapeutic candidates for fibrotic diseases, including cancer-associated fibrosis.

Kuala Lumpur – October 17, 2026 -- Founder Group Limited (NASDAQ: FGL) has secured a RM19.5 million (approximately US$5 million) engineering, procurement and construction contract for a 5.5MW solar facility under Malaysia's Large Scale Solar 5 (LSS5) programme.

A solar investment company awarded the contract. Founder Group will oversee design, construction, testing and commissioning of the plant.

Kuala Lumpur – October 17, 2026 -- Founder Group Limited (NASDAQ: FGL) has secured an engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) contract valued at RM34 million (about US$8.6 million) under Malaysia's Large Scale Solar 5 (LSS5) programme, lifting its total LSS5 contract value to about RM70 million (about US$17.7 million).

The company won the contract in collaboration with a solar investment company that the source does not name.

Kuala Lumpur – October 17, 2026 -- Founder Energy Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Founder Group Limited (FGL), has signed a turn-key EPCC contract worth approximately RM5.58 million (US$1.37 million) to build a 1.78 MW-peak rooftop solar system for a shrimp farming and processing facility in Ayer Hitam, Kedah.

The deal is Founder Group's second solar project for the agricultural sector. It follows a shrimp farm project in Terengganu and is the company's first to combine an integrated shrimp farm with a processing plant.

Kuala Lumpur – October 17, 2026 -- Founder Energy Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Founder Group Limited (FGL), has been engaged as subcontractor for a 29.99MWac large-scale solar photovoltaic facility in Daerah Kuala Muda, Kedah, in a deal valued at RM6.05 million (approximately US$1.5 million).

The award falls under Malaysia's Corporate Green Power Programme (CGPP), a national mechanism that lets corporates procure renewable energy directly from large-scale solar developers via the grid.