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Essential Energy Selects Oracle to Modernise NSW’s Largest Electricity Network

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Leading energy distributor achieves core-to-edge modernisation with Oracle’s finance, HR, and workforce solutions to improve efficiency, support renewables, and enhance customer services

SYDNEY, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle CloudWorld Tour Sydney — Oracle today announced that Essential Energy, a leading electricity distributor in Australia, has modernised its operations and optimised asset management with Oracle’s cloud applications. This transformation enables Essential Energy to deliver safe and reliable power for the communities it serves while positioning it to play a pivotal role in Australia’s clean energy transition.

Essential Energy operates and maintains one of Australia’s largest electricity distribution networks, covering 95 percent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland, and serving over 890,000 customers across regional, rural, and remote communities. It plays a key role in the State’s transition to renewable energy, as noted in the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap. Managing energy across such a vast and diverse area presents unique challenges, including the need to modernise ageing infrastructure to meet growing power demands and prepare for emerging technologies.

Building on its long-standing relationship with Oracle, Essential Energy selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite and Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Cloud Service (WACS) to improve business insights, enhance operational efficiency, and optimise workforce management to better meet evolving customer expectations.

“To strengthen our core business, we needed the right technology to modernise and replace a number of legacy software solutions used to manage our asset and works management value chain,” said Brad Thomas, head of Asset Engineering, Risk and Compliance, Essential Energy. “Oracle’s solutions are helping us manage over 10 million assets, systemise maintenance requirements, and provide an end-to-end view of our asset management system. With these tools we have improved our asset management practices and aligned our enterprise systems. They have also laid the foundation to help us lead Australia’s clean energy transition.”

Utilising integration between the Oracle applications, Essential Energy is able to create a centralised, and common data model for asset and financial management. By harnessing data insights from Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Utilities WACS, the company is able to optimise maintenance and maximise asset value to deliver greater benefits to customers across Australia.

Essential Energy can also take advantage of the cloud based applications to increase productivity, reduce costs, expand workforce insights and enhance employee experience through Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM). With quarterly update cycles, Oracle Fusion Applications will give the Essential Energy team access to continuous innovation as new features are added every 90 days, without downtime or business disruption.

Using Oracle Utilities WACS, Essential Energy can access insights, modelling, and planning capabilities that maximise its ability to manage network assets and better support communities, businesses, and residential customers. Over time, this enables the organisation to have clearer visibility into its asset and works management processes to support a more resilient and reliable electricity network across its entire footprint.

“Essential Energy’s cloud-first approach is redefining what’s possible in the energy sector, setting a new benchmark for modernisation and sustainability,” said Stephen Bovis, regional managing director, Australia and New Zealand, Oracle. “With Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Cloud Service, Essential Energy is not just optimising operations—it’s transforming its entire approach to managing one of Australia’s largest and most critical electricity networks. We are proud to work with Essential Energy in accelerating New South Wales’ clean energy transition while strengthening the State’s energy infrastructure and delivering lasting value to communities across the region.”

Deloitte and Accenture, both long-term members of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), were engaged to support the implementation of Oracle Cloud ERP and Oracle Cloud HCM, and Oracle Utilities WACS, respectively.

About Essential Energy 
Essential Energy builds, operates and maintains one of Australia’s largest electricity distribution networks, servicing over 900,000 customers across regional, rural and remote communities.   

The network footprint covers 95 per cent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland, traversing 737,000 square kilometres of diverse landscape from the desert to the coast, across alpine to sub-tropical.   

Delivering safe and reliable electricity for our communities is at the core of what we do, while actively supporting the energy transition through enabling the connection of renewables on the network.

Essential Energy’s footprint includes 1.4 million power poles.  

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Trip.com Group Sincerely Accepts Administrative Penalty Decision Issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China

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SINGAPORE, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trip.com Group Limited (Nasdaq: TCOM; HKEX: 9961) today announced that it has received the administrative penalty decision issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China.

Trip.com Group sincerely accepts the decision and will adopt rectification measures in accordance with applicable laws and regulations to implement the decision’s requirements. The Company will strengthen its long-term governance mechanisms and strive to contribute to the sustainable development of the travel industry.

Trip.com Group’s management team will host a conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on July 27, 2026 (or 8:00 PM Hong Kong Time on July 27, 2026).

The conference call will be available on Webcast live at: http://investors.trip.com.

All participants must pre-register to join this conference call using the participant registration link below:
https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BIb78e08d8f18340c4882a7e4ab961906b.

Upon registration, each participant will receive details for this conference call, including dial-in numbers and a unique access PIN. To join the conference, please dial the number provided, enter your PIN, and you will join the conference instantly.

For further information, please contact:
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Trip.com Group Limited
Email: iremail@trip.com

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NAVER Partners with Brookfield and NVIDIA to Expand Korea’s National AI Factory Infrastructure Buildout

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA announced an expansion of Korea’s sovereign AI factory infrastructure. New investments will increase the initial NVIDIA DSX™ AI factory deployment from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts.

Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco, the planned 200-megawatt expansion will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea. The expanded infrastructure will provide Korea- and U.S.- based AI innovators with access to production-scale AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.

Under the terms of the agreements, Brookfield will fund up to $9 billion as the exclusive capital partner, NVIDIA will invest $1 billion and NAVER will fund the remaining amount to finance the $10 billion project.

This builds on NAVER’s June announcement to extend its GAK Sejong data center with NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure serving Korea’s enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI cloud customers. Combining Brookfield’s capital with NVIDIA’s computing platform, the investment supports NAVER’s AI factory deployment.

“NVIDIA’s strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield have propelled NAVER’s vision for the AI Factory business into a robust execution phase,” said Haejin Lee, Founder and Chairman of NAVER. “Leveraging the solid partnerships with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign AI ecosystem, and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea’s AI competitiveness.” 

AI Factory Expansion and Open Model Collaboration to Fuel AI Innovators

NAVER, as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform. The 200-megawatt AI factory, featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms, will establish a dedicated resource pool for emerging AI companies, providing the compute, software and support needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale.

This expanded infrastructure also builds on NAVER and NVIDIA’s collaboration on open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning.

NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models.

About NAVER

Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea’s largest Internet company and one of the world’s top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech, cloud, AI and robotics.

NAVER recorded sales of KRW 12.04 trillion (USD 8.18 billion) in 2025. TEAM NAVER continues to enhance its business portfolio and expand its global presence across Japan, North America, and Europe, while pursuing innovation through continuous research and development in future technologies.

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Beijing Review: Walking Through Time: China and U.S. Youths Explore Dali’s Past and Future

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BEIJING, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On July 17, a China-U.S. youth delegation came to Dali of Yunnan Province. By examining how Dali’s rich history intersects with modern development, the delegates explored new pathways for rural development.

They visited Dali Old Town, tried their hand at making the Bai people’s Three-Course Tea and also explored the ancient town of Xizhou, where they learned how modern tourism and indigenous life coexist.

In Yunnanyi Village, they explored its history as a stop along the Tea Horse Road and learned about the role it played during the Second World War (WWII).

Tyler James Smith

“I think it’s a very underappreciated part of World War II history. Hearing these stories of different countries working together despite cultural differences is incredibly inspiring.

I also think there are many stories like these that haven’t been widely told, simply because World War II is such a complex period in history. That’s why I think it’s so meaningful to visit museums like this and experience these stories firsthand.”

At Xiangyun Economic and Technological Development Zone, they visited a local new energy company to see how green, low-carbon development is driving regional growth.

Valerie Marie

“I recently started studying energy transitions. I know China has been really big in the renewable energy sector. So actually getting to hear more about [China’s] 2060 [pledge], learning more about carbon neutrality [goals], as well as other zero-carbon goals, was cool.”

During their stay in Dali, they also strolled along the Erhai Lake Ecological Corridor.

Bai Yiwen

“I’d describe this journey as “to be continued,” because my own connection with Yunnan is far from over. For the U.S. delegates, this was only their first visit, so they’ve only had a glimpse of what Yunnan has to offer. I hope they will have more opportunities to come back to China, explore other cities in Yunnan, and discover even more of its people, culture and traditions.”

After Dali, the delegates will visit Beijing for more tours and exchanges. The event was co-hosted by China International Communications Group (CICG) Center for the Americas and the U.S.-based International Student Conferences.

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