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Hong Kong – October 08, 2026 -- Sisram Medical Ltd (1696.HK) has announced a share repurchase plan to buy back up to 1% of its total issued shares on the open market, citing confidence in its long-term growth trajectory.

Buyback plan allows cancellation or treasury retention of shares

Under the existing share repurchase mandate, repurchased shares may either be cancelled or held as treasury shares depending on future capital management needs. The plan will be executed subject to market conditions, with the Board stating it will balance business development priorities, strategic investment needs and financial flexibility.

First-half 2026 revenue climbs 3.6% to US$171.4 million

Sisram reported H1 2026 revenue of US$171.4 million, up 3.6% year-on-year. International markets excluding North America drove growth, rising 16.7% YoY to US$127.0 million, with APAC generating US$78.4 million, a 19.1% YoY increase.

Mumbai – October 08, 2026 -- The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts has extended its three-year partnership with Ara Lumière to Milan Fashion Week, bringing The Phoenix Circle initiative and artist Raghava KK's PASSPORT project to a global luxury audience.

The Leela ties its luxury brand to a three-year social impact campaign

The hospitality group, India's largest institutionally owned pure-play luxury brand with 15 operating properties backed by Brookfield, used the Milan platform to position its "True Indian Luxury" positioning around cultural and social initiatives rather than hospitality services alone.

The Phoenix Circle centers women survivors of acid and burn attacks in creative livelihood

Founded by philanthropist Kulsum Shadab Wahab, the initiative channels fashion and art into economic opportunity and creative expression for the women it supports, reframing their public narrative around agency rather than adversity.

Shenzhen – October 08, 2026 -- SmallRig hosted its 3rd Visionary Storytellers Industry Forum in Shenzhen, releasing the "2025-2026 Top 12 Global Imaging Scenarios Report" that projects peripheral equipment growth will reach 9.2% annually over the next five years, outpacing host device sales.

Report identifies 12 core imaging scenarios reshaping creator markets

The report, based on user research and market analysis, maps 12 scenarios including everyday life content, unscripted livestreaming, extreme sports, micro-dramas, wildlife photography, and specialized imaging. It flags four structural trends: mobile cinematography, decentralization of professional resources, democratization of creators, and AI-powered video generation.

Sitges – October 08, 2026 -- MGI Tech Co., Ltd. unveiled its Stereo-seq OMNI Large Chip Design for formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue samples at the third Conference of the European Society for Spatial Biology (ESSB), held September 28 to October 1 at Hotel Meliá Sitges near Barcelona.

New chip format expands capture area to 2 cm by 3 cm for FFPE research

The design builds on MGI's existing Stereo-seq OMNI V1.1 platform and is built for chip formats up to 2 cm by 3 cm, enabling researchers to profile larger tissues, multiple sections, or tissue microarray layouts within a single spatial experiment. Standard capture areas have limited researchers' ability to view larger or structurally diverse FFPE sections, a constraint the new format is engineered to address.

Guangzhou, China – October 08, 2026 -- XPENG has unveiled "XPENG YOYO" as the official brand name for its Robotaxi unit, opening public online registration in China via invitation codes and launching a dedicated page on its corporate website.

XPENG becomes China's first automaker to mass-produce a fully in-house Robotaxi with pre-loaded hardware

Each vehicle carries four in-house Turing AI chips delivering a combined 3,000 TOPS of compute, which the company states is the highest in-vehicle processing power currently available. The system runs on XPENG's VLA2.0 large model and operates without HD maps or LiDAR, a design intended to allow rapid redeployment across different cities.

Shenzhen, China – – October 08, 2026 -- The High People's Court of Guangdong Province has issued a final, legally binding judgment in favor of Shenzhen Leqi Innovation Co., Ltd., the company behind imaging accessories brand SmallRig, in a design patent infringement case against Shenzhen Neewer Technology Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Xing Ying Da Industry Co., Ltd.

Court dismisses Neewer's appeal and upholds full damages award

The court ruled that the accused side handle products fall within the scope of protection of Leqi Innovation's design patent, dismissing Neewer Technology's appeal and affirming the trial court's judgment in its entirety. The two defendants were ordered to cease manufacturing and selling the infringing side handles, destroy remaining inventory and related promotional materials, bear all court costs, and pay damages to Leqi Innovation. The damages have been paid in full.

Beijing – October 08, 2026 -- New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (NYSE: EDU; SEHK: 9901) will convene its annual general meeting on November 13, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. local time at No. 6 Hai Dian Zhong Street, Haidian District, Beijing.

No shareholder vote is scheduled for the 2026 annual meeting

The company confirmed no proposals will be submitted for approval at the gathering. Instead, the meeting will function as an open forum allowing shareholders of record and beneficial owners of American depositary shares to raise questions directly with management on company affairs.

New York – October 08, 2026 -- Corel has rolled out a Text-to-vector AI workflow in its September 2026 Update to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2026, letting designers convert written prompts into editable, scalable vector graphics directly inside the application. The update was reviewed by Consumer365, which flagged the feature as the centerpiece of the release alongside a reworked PowerTRACE engine and expanded CorelDRAW Web tools.

Text-to-vector tool turns prompts into editable vector objects

The new capability sits inside CorelDRAW's AI Generate docker, letting users start either from a text prompt or existing artwork. Output arrives as editable vector objects with manual node control, rather than locked raster images, and supports styles including Line art, Comic book, and Icon. Color handling follows the active document's color mode, aligning generated assets with existing production files.

Gwacheon, South Korea – – October 08, 2026 -- Park Systems Corp. captured 23.8% of global atomic force microscopy (AFM) revenue in 2025, retaining the top industry ranking for a fourth consecutive year from 2022 through 2025, according to QY Research's Global Atomic Force Microscopy Market Report.

Park Systems leads both revenue and unit shipments in 2025

The South Korea-based company sold 340 AFM systems during the year, the highest unit volume among manufacturers tracked in the study, while also topping the market on revenue share.

London – – October 08, 2026 -- Hilton Worldwide Holdings has displaced DHL Group atop Fortune's 100 Best Companies To Work For - Europe 2026 ranking, with AbbVie, DHL Group, Cisco Systems and Specsavers rounding out the top five.

Technology dominates the 100-company list with 26 entrants

The ranking spans companies headquartered in 25 countries, with roughly half privately held and women leading six of the 100 firms. Just over a third of the listed companies are European operations of large U.S. businesses. Technology leads sector representation with 26 companies, followed by health care at 17 and financial services at 15.

Allianz, Stryker, Aviva, Siemens Healthineers and Salesforce fill out the top 10

Siemens Healthineers and Salesforce newly entered the top 10 this year, joining Allianz, Stryker and Aviva in positions six through nine.

New York – October 08, 2026 -- DoubleZero Foundation has added Binance's full spot and futures market data to its Edge platform, making the exchange the first centralized venue and fifth overall data source on the network. Binance joins Solana, Kalshi, Hyperliquid, and Phoenix on the same multicast feed, delivered over DoubleZero's dedicated fiber infrastructure.

Binance becomes first centralized exchange integrated into Edge's multicast feed

Edge now normalizes top-of-book and trade data across all symbols on Binance's spot and futures markets, ingested in Tokyo and distributed via dedicated fiber. The data is formatted to the same schema used for the platform's other four venues, allowing trading teams to deploy code written for one market across all five without rebuilding integrations.

New York – October 08, 2026 -- The European Union staged a live culinary competition inside Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall to promote PDO- and PGI-certified food and beverage exports to US trade buyers and media.

Mishka Murphy wins head-to-head cooking battle with PDO and PGI ingredients

Murphy defeated fellow contestant Alexa Santos in the Taste of Europe Challenge, held October 7, with a winning dish of Marinated Runner Beans, Whipped Noord-Hollandse Gouda PDO, Jambon de Bayonne PGI, fresh herbs, and European olive oil. Contestants sourced ingredients from an on-site European Market set up for the competition.

London and Singapore – October 08, 2026 -- CME Group posted international average daily volume (ADV) of 9 million contracts in the third quarter of 2026, up 22% from a year earlier, as geopolitical volatility drove risk-management demand across global markets.

Energy and agricultural contracts lead international surge

Growth outside the United States was driven largely by Energy products, up 40%, Agricultural products, up 28%, and Equity Index products, up 24%. Julie Winkler, Chief Commercial Officer at CME Group, said geopolitical issues fueled uncertainty and stoked inflation globally during the quarter, pushing customers worldwide toward the exchange to hedge risk.

Singapore – October 08, 2026 -- ONLYOFFICE has released version 10.0 of its open-source office suite, bundling context-aware AI tools, four new modular applications, and fixes for 35 security vulnerabilities. The autumn update packages roughly 50 new features and more than 1,000 bug fixes across the online, desktop, and mobile editors.

AI tools move directly into document, spreadsheet, and PDF editors

A dedicated AI tab with built-in chat now lets users draft, summarize, translate, and format content without exporting files to third-party tools. Legal teams can summarize contracts inside the editor, analysts can generate forecasts or Pivot Tables, and managers can convert raw notes into structured presentations using ready-made prompts and saved custom actions.

Barcelona – – October 08, 2026 -- Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) will convene over 600 speakers and an expected 27,000 attendees from November 3-5 at Barcelona's Gran Via venue, organized by Fira de Barcelona under the theme "Urban Solutions, Real Impact."

Four mayoral continents send representatives to Barcelona summit

The 2026 edition elevates its political profile with Anne Hidalgo, former Mayor of Paris and Global Ambassador of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, joined by Andre Dickens (Mayor of Atlanta), Haris Doukas (Mayor of Athens), Giuseppe Sala (Mayor of Milan), Gergely Karácsony (Mayor of Budapest), Daryl Barron (Lord Mayor of Dublin) and Yvonne Aki-Sawyer (Mayor of Freetown).

Ramsey, N.J. – October 08, 2026 -- AppWork, a maintenance management platform for multifamily operators, has partnered with Rely, an AI-powered due diligence platform, to merge on-site inspection data directly into audit reports, cutting a process that once took weeks down to minutes.

Integration links field inspections to deal-ready audit reports

The partnership connects inspection data collected by AppWork maintenance technicians, covering unit condition, pet fees and rent, and in-unit washer/dryer status, directly into Rely's data room. Rely combines this field data with lease, rent roll, vendor contract, and financial records to generate a complete, source-backed audit report. Mutual clients activate the connection with a single vendor token, with no additional cost for existing AppWork and Rely customers.

New Haven, Conn. – October 08, 2026 -- Biohaven Ltd. (NYSE: BHVN) has signed a licensing and collaboration agreement with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (TYO: 4528), granting Ono exclusive rights to develop and commercialize Biohaven's MoDE pan IgG degrader portfolio across Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and ASEAN member states.

Biohaven secures up to $100 million in near-term payments from Ono

The deal includes $80 million paid at execution and a further $20 million tied to a milestone expected within a year. Biohaven will also receive royalties of approximately 20 percent on net sales generated by Ono within the licensed territory. Biohaven retains all rights to the portfolio outside this region, including the United States, Europe, and China.

Hong Kong – – October 08, 2026 -- OSL Group has been engaged by digital asset technology firm 2WA to power the on-chain tokenization of PrimePlus SPC - USDGO Plus SP, the first market-neutral fund built on the USDGO stablecoin. As of October 7, the fund had returned 16.67% since inception, with a 17.05% annualized return over the trailing 30 days before fees.

OSL takes on custody, distribution and tokenization of the fund's units

Under the arrangement, OSL (HKEX:863) tokenizes the fund on-chain and serves as the licensed platform for custody and distribution of its tokenized units. USDGO, the underlying asset of the fund, is also held in custody with OSL. Eligible professional investors in Hong Kong can subscribe to and redeem from the fund directly through the OSL HK app, the company's locally licensed digital asset trading platform.

New Delhi – October 08, 2026 -- Fibocom and India-based IoT ODM Grid-OS are expanding their partnership to cover smart payment and vehicle tracking devices, unveiling new products at IMC 2026 as India's digital payments volume hits 24.51 billion UPI transactions in August 2026 alone, according to NPCI data.

Grid-OS showcases payment soundbox built on Fibocom's LE270 module

The Payment Soundbox uses Fibocom's LE270 LTE Cat 1 bis module to deliver stable 4G connectivity for real-time transaction alerts. The module's low-power design, optimized for connected-mode and DRX standby consumption, enables roughly 7-8 days of battery life on a 2000mAh battery.

London – October 08, 2026 -- Markel Insurance has launched a new Chemical, Oil & Gas related Energy Property (CORE) offering for small to midsize US-domiciled businesses, backed by coverage limits of up to $50 million on primary and excess-of-loss bases.

Markel targets midstream and downstream US energy risks with dedicated property cover

The CORE offering provides tailored protection for property damage, business interruption and, on selected risks, equipment breakdown across industrial organic chemicals, petrochemicals, natural gas transmission and storage, terminals, gas processing, and midstream and downstream operations. Clients gain coverage against natural catastrophe exposures including flood, windstorm and earthquake.