CHENGDU – November 12, 2026 -- Yum China Holdings (NYSE: YUMC; HKEX: 9987) has passed 20,000 stores across more than 2,800 cities and towns in China, and targets 30,000 stores by 2030, which means adding 10,000 more within four years.

The company announced the milestone at its annual convention for restaurant general managers (RGMs) in Chengdu, attended by more than 10,000 RGMs. It marked the occasion by opening six stores simultaneously, one for each brand it runs in Mainland China: KFC, Pizza Hut, Lavazza, Taco Bell, Little Sheep and Huang Ji Huang. The milestone coincides with the 10th anniversary of its New York Stock Exchange listing.

Phuket – November 12, 2026 -- Thailand's wellness economy reached $46.5 billion in 2025, with wellness real estate surging 66.7% to $1.2 billion, according to new Global Wellness Institute (GWI) data released at the 20th anniversary Global Wellness Summit in Phuket.

Overall growth slowed to 8.8% in 2025, from 11.6% in 2024, 16.9% in 2023 and 15.3% in 2022. GWI attributes the earlier double-digit rates to post-pandemic recovery after declines in 2020 and 2021. Thailand now ranks as the world's 26th largest wellness economy and the ninth largest in Asia-Pacific.

Wellness real estate becomes Thailand's fastest-growing wellness sector

The 66.7% expansion between 2024 and 2025 ranks first in Asia-Pacific and 11th globally for wellness real estate growth. GWI links the surge to wellness features moving into residential communities, hospitality developments and the built environment.

PERTH – November 12, 2026 -- OncoRes Medical has rebranded as Ziva Surgical, moving its ELORA System, which holds FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and more than 44 granted patents, closer to commercialization.

Ziva Surgical targets residual cancer found after breast-conserving surgery

The Perth-based tissue intelligence company is addressing a persistent clinical gap: about one in five women undergoing breast-conserving surgery faces a second operation to remove residual cancer. Surgeons currently rely on sight, touch, specimen imaging and clinical judgment, methods that can leave residual cancer undetected during the procedure.

Osnabrück – November 12, 2026 -- Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Christian Meyer of the Green Party has called Federal Economics Minister Katharina Reiche's absence from the Energy Ministers' Conference in Göttingen an affront to the federal states.

Meyer links federal uncertainty to slower energy transition

Meyer told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the states want the energy transition to succeed jointly. In his view, current uncertainty is eroding trust and slowing the expansion of the energy transition.

Five agenda items left without federal input

Meyer had wanted Reiche, a member of the CDU, or her state secretary to attend. He listed five topics for discussion:

Tokyo -- Sompo Holdings and NTT signed a partnership agreement on November 11, 2026 to bring physical AI into Japan's nursing care sector, starting with indirect tasks such as cleaning, laundry, meal handling and item transport.

Partners target labor shortages in a super-aging Japan

The agreement responds to a shortage of frontline nursing care workers that the companies say is already a social issue and will intensify as Japan ages. Sompo Holdings (Group CEO Mikio Okumura) and NTT (President and CEO Akira Shimada) define physical AI as cameras, sensors, robots and the systems connecting them. The technology perceives physical space and carries out tasks through equipment such as robots.

The companies say deployment requires more than technology development. It also needs integrated preparation covering data, operational design, operations, maintenance and security for stable everyday use.

San Francisco – – November 12, 2026 -- Meta has signed a multi-year agreement with electric truckload carrier Nevoya to buy environmental attribute certificates (EACs) supporting 25 Class 8 battery-electric trucks on Interstate 10 between San Bernardino, California, and Phoenix, Arizona.

Nevoya expects the trucks to begin operating in 2027 and to cover about 4 million freight miles a year. The deal includes bringing online charging infrastructure for the fleet, with charging matched 100% by renewable energy certificates.

Meta buys certificates, not freight capacity

The purchase is not tied to the physical transport of Meta's own goods. Companies buy EACs to address emissions in their value chains, including logistics. Meta's Head of Net Zero Strategy, Devon Lake, said freight is part of the emissions footprint of building and operating its data centers. He said multi-year commitments like this help address Meta's scope 3 emissions.

New York – November 12, 2026 -- Butterfly Equity portfolio company Actus Nutrition has acquired the North American operations of Erie Foods International, a dairy protein ingredient maker founded in 1938. The transaction closed on October 26, 2026, with PKF Investment Banking acting as exclusive financial advisor to Erie Foods.

Actus adds a dairy protein processor to its ingredient platform

Actus, based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, converts milk and whey into functional ingredients for human and animal nutrition. It also offers private-label manufacturing and custom ingredient development for food, beverage and performance nutrition brands. Financial terms were not included in the announcement.

DUBAI – November 12, 2026 -- Bybit has completed the migration of its trading servers from Singapore to Tokyo, cutting latency by up to 300 microseconds, the exchange said. The platform, which counts more than 80 million users, says the faster connectivity is meant to improve conditions for market makers and other liquidity providers.

Bybit targets deeper order books and tighter spreads

The company says better network performance should help market makers manage orders more efficiently. It expects that to translate into deeper order books, tighter bid-ask spreads, more efficient price discovery and more consistent execution. Bybit did not publish measured results for spreads, depth or execution quality.

Fürth – November 12, 2026 -- German discounter NORMA brought 20 top-performing apprentices from across Germany to its Fürth headquarters on November 11 for the 17th edition of its annual Azubi-Tag, putting trainees in direct talks with the management board.

Apprentices from four trades question the board on daily working life

Participants came from warehouse logistics, sales, retail and office management. Many travelled long distances, so NORMA put them up in a hotel near headquarters the night before and drove them to the event by chauffeur.

The centerpiece was a roundtable with the management board and members of the executive team. Trainees were asked how they experience their working day, what works well and where they see room for improvement. NORMA says the feedback feeds into the further development of its training offering.

Neu-Isenburg – November 12, 2026 -- A three-month online ad campaign run by an external agency generated only four customer inquiries for one company, even though the ads were shown frequently and drew numerous reactions, according to Tobias Riedl, founder of Riedl Webmarketing. Most of the response consisted of "likes" that had little relevance for winning customers, yet the agency rated the campaign positively and recommended continuing it unchanged.

Impressions and clicks do not show whether ads win customers

Impressions only measure how often an ad was displayed, Riedl said. Clicks and reactions do not show whether new customers result. Even four inquiries are not automatically a poor outcome, he said; what counts is the campaign cost, whether the leads fit the offer, and whether they turned into profitable orders.