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Southeast Asia is in for a blockbuster 2025, with WeTV Unveiling an Expanded Global Content Slate and Strong Performances

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2025 is set to be a strong year for WeTV with bigger, better, and more entertaining Southeast Asian offerings, including an all-new season of CHUANG ASIA, a slew of WeTV Originals in Thailand and Indonesia, and flagship entertainment shows from China.

SINGAPORE, Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — WeTV, the international streaming platform by Tencent Video, has unveiled its 2025 content lineup, showcasing an impressive array of originals and adaptations across key Southeast Asian markets.

Coming off a strong 2024, the year ahead will see WeTV build on these successes and deliver even more to Southeast Asian audiences.

Jeff Han, Vice President of Tencent Video & WeTV Director said, “WeTV’s remarkable achievements in 2024 have set the stage for an even brighter future. As we look ahead to 2025, we are poised to elevate our presence in the streaming landscape through groundbreaking collaborations, award-winning originals, and strategic partnerships. With a steadfast commitment to delivering meaningful and culturally relevant content, we aim to deepen our connection with audiences across Southeast Asia and continue shaping the region’s entertainment narrative.”

CHUANG ASIA Gets a Brand-New Season!

Following the success of CHUANG ASIA – which saw the international debut of the 9-member girl group ‘Gen1es’ – WeTV is set to bring back the popular idol survival show, with its second season, set to premiere in Thailand and across the region on 2 February 2025.

The new season of CHUANG ASIA will bring together over 60 aspiring trainees from 9 countries and regions, showcasing individuals from diverse professions and cultural backgrounds. They will compete to secure a coveted spot on the region’s next big boy group operated by Tencent Music Entertainment (TME). Filming begins in Bangkok, Thailand this December, with the show soon to air on WeTV globally and other major TV networks and OTT platforms across Asia including CH3 in Thailand, Astro in Malaysia and TVB in Hong Kong.

WeTV Originals Thailand and Indonesia Expands Content Slate

WeTV viewers across Thailand and Indonesia can sit back and enjoy 2025, as a host of original Thai and Indonesian productions are set to take the two markets by storm, spanning various genres such as romance, comedy, suspense, thriller, and sci-fi.

Thailand

Thai viewers can anticipate exciting new content in the BL genre, featuring the popular couple Mile and Apo from KinnPorsche in the upcoming drama series Shine, produced by BeOnCloud. Additionally, Top Form, the first-ever live-action adaptation of Japan’s renowned BL franchise Dakaichi, will be co-produced by WeTV and Tailai Entertainment, starring young Thai talents Smart and Boom as they bring iconic romantic scenes to life. Furthermore, WeTV is launching Boys Lost In Thailand, its first Thai on-the-road reality show, which will introduce an innovative interactive format encouraging audience participation with the concept “My CP, My Choice!” This partnership sets the stage for future productions like Love of Silom, which reunites Poompat Iamsamang (Mr. Up) and Sapsangsawat (Mr. Poom), Love Destiny from Hell, a highly anticipated work by fans of Violet Rain, as well as Concealed and Blended and I’m Not Wrong.

Indonesia

Meanwhile, WeTV’s commitment to the Indonesian market continues with upcoming highly anticipated WeTV Original titles such as a twisted teen romance thriller Obsessed, starring Aliando Syarief, Aisyah Aqilah, and Richelle Skornicki, a romantic comedy Leo in February starring Rayn Wijaya and Ranty Maria; and Hot Daddies Club, which stars Nino Fernandez and Zoe Abbas Jackson as the main characters, that tells a youthful crush blossomed into a forbidden love story.

More C-Dramas for Southeast Asian Audiences

In addition to all-new WeTV Originals in Thailand and Indonesia, WeTV viewers can also tune into a line-up of highly anticipated Chinese dramas in 2025, including Guardians of the Dafeng, an adaptation of one of the most popular online novels in China, which stars Wang Hedi and Tian Xiwei; The Glory, a suspense-revenge drama series starring Chen Duling and Xin Yunlai; a suspense-adventure drama, Love on the Turquoise Land, which will see Dilraba and Chen Xingxu team up as co-stars.

A series of costume romance dramas is also set to make its way to Southeast Asia viewers, such as Love Beyond the Grave (starring Dilraba and Chen Feiyu), Legend of the Female General (starring Zhou Ye and Cheng Lei), and Fight for Love (starring Victoria Song and Ding Yuxi). And it doesn’t stop there! Love has Fireworks (starring Tan Jianci and Wang Churan) and Be Passionately in Love (starring Liu Haocun and Wang Anyu) will also keep Southeast Asian audiences swooning over their screens, while Tan Jianci and Li Landi will come together and star in a sci-fi drama series, Filter.

WeTV’s Southeast Asia line-up for 2025 is bigger, better, and more entertaining than ever before.

WeTV Celebrates an Amazing 2024

WeTV is set to enter 2025 with remarkable momentum in Southeast Asia, following a successful 2024 marked by impressive double-digit revenue growth and soaring subscription numbers. Most notably, user time spent, engagement, and loyalty have reached record levels, underscoring WeTV’s strong position in the market..

Popular Chinese actress and singer, Yu Shuxin, better known as Esther Yu, and Chinese actor and singer, Zhou Yiran, were named WeTV’s Global Brand Ambassador, adding some A-list glamour to the Southeast Asian market. Yu Shuxin’s most recent hit Eastern fantasy series, Love Game in Eastern Fantasy exceeded the 30,000 heat index on Tencent Video, while rising star Zhou Yiran has starred in several drama series on WeTV such as Falling into Your Smile, and is set to appear on Reborn and Generation to Generation, which is set to capture audiences across the platform, signaling stronger connections with global audiences. To express gratitude to its audience, WeTV has hosted fan meetings in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, inviting popular young artists to connect with fans and enhance community engagement.

As an Asia-founded, international streaming service, WeTV has always been a leader in Chinese dramas, and its high-quality content garnered attention and affection from global audiences. This is further proven as four out of the top 5 most discussed Chinese dramas on TikTok are from WeTV, with Snowfall, Are You The One, Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, and As Beautiful As You securing the first, second, fourth and fifth place respectively.

2024 was also a standout year for WeTV Originals, with Indonesian Originals Pardon My Affair which starred Marshanda, Giorgino Abraham, and Stefan William, reaching over 2 billion views on social media. Additionally, the recently aired Dangerous Affair trended in 27 countries within just two days of its release. Meanwhile, the viewership of CHUANG ASIA’s premiere season on WeTV surpassed that of CHUANG 2021, underscoring the show’s growing popularity in the region. During the final round’s livestream, total votes on the WeTV application amounted to an impressive 500 million, while the event dominated social media with the hashtag CHUANG ASIA trending at No. 1 in Thailand and #CHUANGAsiaGrandDebutNight being mentioned over 1 million times. In addition, WeTV has ventured into global artist management with the debut of CHUANG Asia’s girl group Gen1es. The platform has also signed a dozen talented young Thai actors as headliners for its local originals, aiming to support the career development of local artists in Southeast Asia and beyond.

WeTV is available on desktop and can also be downloaded from mobile apps, either on Android (Google Play) or iOS (App Store) devices. Check out WeTV’s official  website and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest news and updates.

About WeTV

WeTV is an Asian streaming service that sees the creation of premier video-on-demand (VOD) and provides over-the-top (OTT) local content. The streaming service provides content from around the region, including selected Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian, Philippines and Thai series and movies. Operating as a freemium service, viewers can access some content without the need for a paid subscription and premium content at a small fee. The basic features also include free subtitles. WeTV is available on the browser at wetv.vip, or on the WeTV application that can be downloaded from the Apple Store for iOS users and the Google Play Store for Android users.

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Toku launches Makimoto Flows, a visual builder for speech AI pipelines, taking its open-source initiative beyond transcription

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Developers can chain transcription, summarisation and call tagging on one canvas, test each step and export the pipeline as code, with every step processed in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Toku Ltd. (SGX: TKU), a Singapore-headquartered AI-powered customer experience (CX) platform, has launched Makimoto Flows (“Flows”), a visual builder within its open-source conversational AI initiative where developers assemble speech AI pipelines block by block and test each stage on a recorded call. Flows is now live at makimoto.ai.

On the Flows canvas, developers connect blocks to build a speech AI pipeline and test each step individually. The Transcribe block converts audio into text using Kawa, the Summarise block generates a topic and short summary from the transcript, and the Tags block classifies each call across seven categories, including customer sentiment. Developers can see how audio moves from transcription to analysis, and control how each stage connects and runs. Every block runs in Singapore, so audio, transcripts and the resulting analysis stay in-country.

The Chained Analysis starter template puts these blocks together in one click, and developers can adjust any block and rerun it to compare results. Each block maps to a Makimoto API endpoint, and any flow can be exported as ready-to-run Python code, so developers can take the same capabilities into their own code for applications such as call recaps and call triage.

“Developers should have control over how their voice AI works, from the models they use to the way each stage connects. That is the principle behind Makimoto. Flows puts the orchestration layer in front of them: they can build a pipeline, run a recorded call through it and see what each step produces before anything reaches their customers. Models will keep changing. The ability to compose them, and to know where they run, is what lasts,” said Thomas Laboulle, Founder and CEO at Toku.

Flows builds on the composable architecture Toku set out when it introduced Makimoto in April 2026, and takes the initiative beyond transcription. Kawa, released on schedule on 1 July 2026, established the transcription layer through a Singapore-hosted API; summarisation and tagging endpoints followed in September; Flows now lets developers compose them visually. Next, Makimoto plans to add audio preparation blocks, starting with noise filtering, giving developers more control over how recordings are processed before transcription.

By pairing open-source development with enterprise-grade deployment, Makimoto complements Toku’s existing customer experience platform and supports long-term innovation opportunities across the Group’s AI roadmap.

Developers can create a free account at makimoto.ai, open the Chained Analysis template and run a sample recording, or one of their own call recordings, through it; each account includes 1,000 free minutes. Feedback reaches the Makimoto team directly from the portal.

About Toku

Headquartered in Singapore, Toku Ltd. (SGX Catalist: TKU) is a cloud-native, AI-powered customer experience platform purpose-built for enterprises operating in complex, multi-market environments. With deep roots in the APAC region and an expanding global footprint, Toku’s modular 360° CX Platform orchestrates customer interactions across voice, chat, email and digital channels while managing regulatory, linguistic and infrastructure complexity at scale.

Built on end-to-end ownership of its technology stack, from carrier-grade connectivity to AI applications, Toku delivers enterprise-grade security, reliability and deployment flexibility in commercial cloud, private data centres and hybrid environments. Its AI capabilities include transcription, summarisation, sentiment analysis, conversation analytics and governed virtual agents, designed to integrate seamlessly with enterprise systems and customer data.

Trusted by leading enterprises and public-sector organisations, Toku helps organisations streamline operations, scale customer engagement and deliver consistent experiences in fragmented markets worldwide.

For more information about Toku, visit toku.co.

About Makimoto

Makimoto is Toku’s open-source initiative, operated through Makimoto Technology Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Toku Group, dedicated to building composable conversational AI infrastructure for Asia-Pacific. Its releases include Makimoto Kawa, a Singapore-hosted transcription API; summarisation and tagging endpoints; and Makimoto Flows, a visual builder for composing speech AI pipelines. For more information about Makimoto, visit makimoto.ai.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Toku’s expansion plans, business strategy and planned product releases. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Toku undertakes no obligation to update these statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

Sponsor’s Statement

Toku Ltd. (the “Company”) was listed on Catalist of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (the “Exchange”) on 22 January 2026. The initial public offering of the Company was sponsored by PrimePartners Corporate Finance Pte. Ltd. (the “Sponsor”). This press release has been reviewed by the Sponsor. It has not been examined or approved by the Exchange and the Exchange assumes no responsibility for the contents of this press release, including the correctness of any of the statements or opinions made or reports contained in this press release. The contact person for the Sponsor is Ms. Ng Shi Qing, 16 Collyer Quay, #10-00 Collyer Quay Centre, Singapore 049318, sponsorship@ppcf.com.sg.

Investor Relations Contact:
investor.relations@toku.co

Developers and Partners:
contact@makimoto.ai  

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Conscious Spark LLC Launches Alphimiya® Neuro-Recalibration Framework Designed to Resolve C-Suite Revenue Plateaus

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New research-backed neuro-recalibration framework targets the autonomic nervous system’s threat response to managing high financial amounts, offering enterprise leaders a biological pathway to scaling.

ANTALYA, Turkey and ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Conscious Spark LLC, a research and advisory firm specializing in applied neuroscience for executive leadership, today announced the official launch of Alphimiya®, a proprietary C-suite neuro-recalibration framework designed to resolve corporate revenue plateaus by upgrading the biological capacity of enterprise decision-makers.

Developed to address the root causes of stalled enterprise growth, the Alphimiya® framework targets the human autonomic nervous system’s subconscious threat response to managing high financial amounts. When commercial leaders and CEOs attempt to scale past historical capital thresholds without recalibrating their stress response, the body’s natural survival mechanism triggers decision fatigue, strategic risk aversion, and systemic self-sabotage. Alphimiya® recalibrates this biological safety brake, enabling executive teams to hold, absorb, and scale larger financial volumes without physiological or operational friction.

“A corporate revenue plateau is rarely an operational or marketing failure; it is a biological safety brake embedded within executive leadership,” stated Dr. Ahmed Al-Nashi, Founder of Conscious Spark LLC. “When managing high financial amounts triggers an underlying physical stress response, the enterprise subconsciously contracts to remain in its perceived safe zone. Alphimiya® removes that biological friction, allowing C-level leaders to multiply revenue with calm, biological authority.”

The Alphimiya® framework restructures executive performance across three core operational pillars:

Sovereign Enterprise Scaling: Expands the nervous system’s tolerance for high-stakes capital, allowing leadership teams to scale revenue without experiencing executive burnout.

High-Value Deal Execution: Regulates autonomic stress responses during multi-million-dollar negotiations and volatile market entries, eliminating hesitation under pressure.

Restored Strategic Clarity: Removes chronic decision fatigue across C-suite teams, restoring mental focus and strategic presence inside and outside the boardroom.

By recalibrating the autonomic nervous system’s response to high capital exposure, Alphimiya® removes the subconscious biological brakes that lock corporate revenue at a standstill. Senior C-level executives and enterprise leadership teams seeking to evaluate their organization’s biological capacity can access the official executive briefing, case studies, and framework assessment directly at https://alphimiya.co/.

About Conscious Spark LLC

Conscious Spark LLC is a U.S.-registered firm specializing in executive education, training, and strategic performance consulting. Pioneering applied neuroscience for C-level leaders, founders, and commercial decision-makers, the firm utilizes its proprietary Alphimiya® methodology to enable leadership teams to recalibrate biological stress responses, resolve revenue ceilings, and build scalable corporations.

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Daffodil Software Brings Multilingual Conversational AI to Aadhaar’s Udai Mascot

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GURUGRAM, India, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Daffodil Software showcased an AI-powered conversational experience featuring UIDAI’s Udai mascot at Aadhaar Samvaad 2026. Developed by Daffodil Software, the assistant is designed to help users access Aadhaar-related information through natural conversation, using official UIDAI as its reference knowledge base.

Daffodil Software has developed Udai, an AI-powered virtual mascot that helps users get clear, reliable answers about Aadhaar simply by talking to it. The assistant was showcased at Aadhaar Samvaad 2026, held in Kolkata on 29 September, coinciding with the 17th Aadhaar Day, where visitors watched it listen, respond, and gesture in real time in their own language.

For most people, questions about Aadhaar come up in daily life, and they usually need answers fast. Which documents do I need for an address change? How much does an update cost? How do I link Aadhaar to my bank account or mobile number? The answers exist, but finding them usually means working through long help pages and documents.

 Udai is designed to answer exactly these questions in a natural conversation, without anyone having to search through long help pages.

A conversation in the user’s own language

Udai speaks and understands 11 languages: Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, and English. A user simply asks a question. Udai listens, works out the answer, and replies in the same language, with natural speech, matching lip movements and expressive hand gestures.

What sets Udai apart is how it is built. AI avatars rely on expensive, specialised graphics hardware to bring a face to life. Udai takes a simpler route. The character is created from pre-filmed footage, and its lip movements are matched to its speech in real time using lightweight processing that runs in a web browser.

The result is a smooth experience at 24 frames per second on ordinary servers, at a fraction of the usual cost per user. For a programme that serves hundreds of millions of people, that efficiency is what turns a nationwide rollout from an ambition into a practical plan.

“Our focus with Udai was to make Aadhaar-related information easier to access through natural conversation. Combining multilingual voice interaction with official reference content allowed our team to build an experience that is practical, approachable, and useful to users,” said Yogesh Agarwal, Founder and CEO, Daffodil Software.

Answers drawn only from official sources

The assistant uses official UIDAI material as its reference knowledge base: frequently asked questions, provisions of the Aadhaar Act, and government policy documents on Aadhaar services. It covers the topics users ask about most:

Enrolment and registrationAddress and demographic updatesFees, required documents and eligibilityeKYC and Virtual IDLinking Aadhaar with bank accounts, PAN and mobile numbersmAadhaar servicesGrievance redressal

Users don’t need to phrase their questions in any particular way. Udai understands everyday language, whether a question is spoken in English, Hindi, or asked in a mix of both, and finds the most relevant official information to answer it.

Built to be accurate, respectful, and secure

When a public service speaks directly to users, trust matters as much as convenience. Udai is protected by three layers of safeguards.

Accuracy first. Udai answers only from its verified knowledge base. Responses are grounded in a curated knowledge base of official UIDAI material. If a question falls outside Aadhaar, it guides the user back rather than offering an answer it cannot stand behind.

Respectful conversations. A screening layer catches abusive or offensive language in English, Hindi, and Hinglish before it reaches the assistant. Screening is designed to identify abusive language while supporting legitimate queries

Protection against misuse. Udai cannot be talked into abandoning its role, pretending to be someone else, revealing its internal setup, or answering beyond its approved scope. These checks work almost instantly, so users experience no delay.

What comes next?

Udai is planned to roll out in two phases.

In the first phase, the mascot will be placed in Aadhaar Centres. Visitors will be able to check information and understand processes on their own, such as which documents they need for an address change. This frees centre staff to focus on their core work instead of answering the same questions again and again.

In the second phase, Udai will come to the Aadhaar website and mobile app, taking the place of the current text-based chatbot, which was also built by Daffodil.

About Daffodil Software

Daffodil Software is a software engineering and AI solutions company serving businesses across industries. Its services span software consulting, product engineering, UI/UX design, AI/ML development, quality assurance, cloud and DevOps, and maintenance. The company serves sectors including healthcare, fintech, banking, technology, and digital commerce. Its client portfolio includes organizations such as the Reserve Bank of India, Mount Sinai Hospital, Maruti, Samsung, Pramerica Insurance, and Dangote Group. Daffodil Software has also been featured in industry research and recognition by Gartner, Everest Group, Zinnov, and Frost & Sullivan. For more information, visit https://www.daffodilsw.com

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