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Rockefeller Foundation Awards JUTI Grant to Deliver Bangkok Climate Action Week

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Grant funding to support establishment of coalition to deliver Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW)Rockefeller Foundation’s continued support for BKKCAW aims to strengthen locally-led climate action

BANGKOK, June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Rockefeller Foundation today announced a US$300,000 grant to the Just Transitions Incubators (JUTI) to form a diverse, multistakeholder coalition to deliver its flagship initiative, the Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) in 2026 and 2027. BKKCAW 2026 will take place from October 3–11, 2026. This grant will enable JUTI to strengthen BKKCAW as a coalition-driven platform for climate action by building a broad-based movement, formalizing governance to enhance accountability and shared ownership, and improving systems for stakeholder engagement, strategic communications, partnerships, and learning. Bringing together a wide range of public institutions, civil society and community organizations, philanthropic actors, private sector partners, and research and knowledge institutions, coalition members are united in advancing climate solutions for people and planet.

“The Bangkok Climate Action Week is opportunity to build momentum behind the solutions, people, and organizations helping improve life for vulnerable people in Southeast Asia,” said Deepali Khanna, Senior Vice President and Head of Asia at The Rockefeller Foundation. “By supporting BKKCAW, The Rockefeller Foundation is helping JUTI bring together governments, communities, researchers, philanthropies, and businesses around shared opportunities and shared challenges. BKKCAW brings diverse voices together to strengthen regional cooperation and turn local ideas into practical action that improves people’s lives, strengthens resilience, and supports a healthier planet.”

The grant will contribute to improving the well-being of people and planet in Southeast Asia by strengthening locally led climate action ecosystems, deepening collaboration among diverse stakeholders, and improving follow-through on initiatives emerging from BKKCAW. It will also help shift public and policy narratives by increasing the visibility of climate and development approaches that are relevant to Southeast Asia and more clearly linking climate action with jobs, resilience, and inclusive growth. At the regional level, a key outcome will be stronger cross-border learning, deeper cooperation among Asian climate actors, and wider South–South exchange on practical climate solutions, alongside improved policy alignment and stronger access to community insight, resources, technical expertise, and implementation support.

“Rather than episodic convenings, climate action in Southeast Asia requires long-term ecosystem stewardship,” said Leo Horn-Phathanothai OBE, Founder and Convenor of Bangkok Climate Action Week. “By strengthening locally led ecosystems, shifting climate narratives, and deepening regional cooperation, the coalition will create the foundation for climate action that is more ambitious, more inclusive, and responsive to the realities of Southeast Asia.”

The Rockefeller Foundation supported the inaugural BKKCAW in 2025, helping establish it as a credible platform for multi-stakeholder engagement and locally led climate action. BKKCAW is especially significant this year as it helps build momentum for climate leadership in Thailand ahead of the World Bank and IMF meetings in October 2026.

About The Rockefeller Foundation

Investing $30 billion over the last 113 years to promote the well-being of humanity, The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on unlikely partnerships and innovative solutions that deliver measurable results for people in the United States and around the world. We leverage scientific breakthroughs, artificial intelligence, and new technologies to make big bets across energy, food, health, and finance. For more information, sign up for our newsletter at www.rockefellerfoundation.org/subscribe and follow us on X @RockefellerFdn, Instagram @rockefellerfdn, YouTube @RockefellerFdn, and LinkedIn @the-rockefeller-foundation.

The Just Transitions Incubator (JUTI)

The Just Transitions Incubator (JUTI) was established in January 2025 with the mission to empower transformative local action driving a just transition to a green, inclusive, climate-safe future in Southeast Asia. JUTI focuses on nurturing change agents, orchestrating mission-based collaboration and driving behavioral change through narrative shifts to unlock the agency of economic, political, cultural actors in the region and localize ambitious climate and nature action. Beyond moving individual actors to bold action, the aim is to forge new constellations of action, strengthening ecosystems for sustained, locally led change.

Bangkok Climate Action Week (BKKCAW) is JUTI’s flagship initiative and already a leading platform for locally led climate action in Southeast Asia. BKKCAW was designed as a community-anchored convening, where local organizations, grassroots groups, creatives, and civic actors serve as co-creators rather than passive participants. The platform functions as an ecosystem-building mechanism that convenes and mobilizes diverse stakeholders including civil society, funders, private sector actors, and policymakers, around shared climate and development priorities, and creates entry points to connect local solutions to broader policy and implementation processes.

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Traveloka 6.6 Mid-Year Sale: Flight, Hotel and Attraction Deals from RM66 for Malaysian Travelers

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Traveloka’s 6.6 Mid-Year Sale: Flights, Hotels and Activities from RM66

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Traveloka, Southeast Asia’s all-in-one travel tech platform, today announced its 6.6 Mid-Year Sale that runs from 5 to 9 June 2026, offering Malaysian travelers flight deals from RM66 to Penang, Langkawi, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Krabi and Phuket; hotel flash sales from RM66 a night; buy-2 attraction deals; and an RM166 coupon drop on 6 June.

When do the deals drop?

Coupons are released at scheduled times daily from 5 to 9 June (Malaysia time):

Time (MYT)

Deal

12.00am (daily)

Flight flash sale to Thailand and Malaysia from RM66

9.00am (daily)

Flight flash sale to Thailand and Malaysia from RM66

12.00pm (daily)

Buy-2 attraction deals from RM66

7.00pm (daily)

Hotel flash sales from RM66 per night

9.00pm (6 June only)

RM166 coupon drops

Flight flash sales feature routes to Penang, Langkawi, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Krabi, and Phuket. Attraction bundles cover family destinations including Aquaria KLCC, Berjaya Times Square Theme Park, and Zoo Negara. Evening hotel flash sales include properties such as Lloyd’s Inn and Wyndham Ion Majestic Hotel.

Airline Coupons

The campaign also features substantial discounts for flights through partnerships with the likes of:

Airline

Discount Offer

Minimum Spend

Code

Malaysia Airlines

RM100 Off

RM200

100MH

China Eastern Airlines

RM150 Off

No min. spend

150MU

Hainan Airlines

RM120 Off

No min. spend

120HU

Xiamen Airlines

RM50 Off

RM900

FLYMF

Thailand deals: 20% off flights and hotels for stays of 6 nights or more

Travelers booking flights and hotels to destinations in Thailand can apply a 20% discount on bookings with a minimum stay of 6 nights. Valid across the 5 to 9 June sale period.

Payment partner discounts and cruise deals

Payment partner coupons: Up to RM100 off with Maybank, UOB, Hong Leong Bank, HSBC, Boost PayFlex, and Touch ‘n GoDisney Cruise Line bookings: Up to 20% offGeneral cruise bookings: 8% off, with savings of up to RM2,500

How to redeem

Malaysian travelers can access the deals from 5 June 2026 via the Traveloka mobile app or website. Coupon codes are applied at checkout. Flash sales are time-limited and subject to availability.

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LITEON Partners With SUTD and Its Spinoff NeuroRAN to Drive AI-RAN Innovation, Advancing Real-Time Edge AI Commercialization over 5G

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TAIPEI, June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LITEON Technology announced a major milestone in AI-RAN innovation through its collaboration with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and SUTD’s spinoff company, NeuroRAN at COMPUTEX 2026. The joint demonstration showcases how AI can be natively integrated into 5G Radio Access Networks (RAN), enabling real-time, privacy-preserving, and energy-efficient edge AI applications.

At the core of the solution is dynamic AI model partitioning. LITEON provides the high-performance O-RU (Radio Unit) integrated with the AI-RAN infrastructure, while SUTD develops AI applications leveraging advanced deep learning models such as the Swin Transformer for real-time video object detection. The solution runs on NVIDIA AI infrastructure, integrating NVIDIA AI Aerial software and high-performance computing to tightly couple AI with 5G networks.

A key innovation is the use of AI-driven spectrum sensing to inform decisions to dynamically distribute AI workloads between user equipment (UE) and edge/cloud environments based on real-time network conditions. Compared with traditional fixed partitioning, this approach significantly reduces latency, optimizes energy consumption, and ensures that sensitive data remains on-device, enhancing both privacy and performance.

The demonstration also integrates a distributed UPF (dUPF) with the 5G core network, further reducing end-to-end latency and strengthening edge AI deployment capabilities for real-world applications such as smart cities, intelligent surveillance, and industrial automation.

Richard Chiang, General Manager of LITEON’s Smart Life Application Strategic Business Unit, said: “Through our collaboration with SUTD and NeuroRAN, we are accelerating AI-RAN from vision to commercialization. By combining LITEON’s expertise in O-RAN and radio infrastructure with advanced NVIDIA AI platforms and applications, we aim to deliver more flexible and efficient network architectures for telecom operators and enterprises.”

Chen Bin Bin, Associate Professor at SUTD and Deputy Director of the Future Communications R&D Programme (FCP), said: “SUTD and our spinoff company, NeuroRAN, are thrilled to partner with LITEON in developing this cutting-edge AI-RAN demonstration. It showcases how intelligent 5G networks can play a key role in enabling new physical AI use cases.”

Looking ahead, LITEON will continue to expand its AI-RAN ecosystem partnerships and accelerate the deployment of real-time AI applications. In addition to AI-RAN commercialization, LITEON plans to provide telecom operators with a flexible AI development environment leveraging NVIDIA DGX Spark platforms, enabling operators to accelerate the research, validation, and deployment of next-generation edge AI applications and services. By utilizing DGX Spark for AI model development and small-scale testing, telecom operators can rapidly prototype innovative AI-driven use cases before scaling them across commercial 5G and future network infrastructures.

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SynaXG, Aethertek, and Metanoia Announce Industry’s Powered FR2 Open RAN Solution

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TAIPEI, June 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SynaXG, Aethertek, and Metanoia today announced the industry’s powered end-to-end AI-RAN-enabled FR2 5G network solution, integrating SynaXG’s AI-RAN Central Unit (CU) and Distributed Unit (DU) software running on Nvidia DGX Spark AI servers with Metanoia and Aethertek’s advanced FR2 radio platform.

The solution delivers a fully integrated AI-RAN architecture combining cloud-native RAN intelligence, high-performance FR2 radio technology, and accelerated deployment capabilities for OEM and ODM partners.

“Metanoia is our premier radio technology partner for both FR1 and FR2 solutions,” said Xin Huang, CEO of SynaXG. “By working closely with Metanoia, our CU/DU solutions for AI-RAN are fully pre-integrated with Metanoia reference platforms. This provides out-of-the-box pre-integration for advanced features such as Zero-Touch Provisioning, FR2 beam steering, and NR-DC to all of Metanoia’s ODMs customers, greatly enabling their TTM by using Metanoia’s semi-turnkey SDK.” 

At the heart of the solution is Albizia, a jointly developed FR2 radio platform featuring Metanoia’s MT2824 5G baseband SoC, MT3812 IF/RF transceiver, and Aethertek’s Nova Antenna-in-Module (AiM) technology.

“The Albizia FR2 development platform co-developed with Aethertek and Metanoia and integrated with SynaXG AI-RAN CU/DU servers brings full-featured FR2 to ODM partners, including beam steering and NR-DC end-end solution,” said Perry Lin, Director of Business Development at Aethertek. “This meets end-customer system feature expectations with very quick TTM.” 

The combined solution supports key advanced 5G capabilities, including:

400 MHz FR2 channel bandwidthEnd-to-end beam steering controlNR Dual Connectivity (NR-DC)Simultaneous FR1 and FR2 connectivity for enhanced user throughput and coverageAI-RAN deployment on GPU-accelerated server infrastructure

“We are excited to partner with SynaXG and Aethertek to bring AI-RAN and FR2 innovation to the market,” said Dr. Stewart Wu, CEO of Metanoia. “Combining Metanoia’s 5G silicon, Aethertek’s mmWave antenna, and SynaXG’s AI-native CU/DU platform, Albizia enables ODMs to rapidly develop next-generation wireless infrastructure.”

About Metanoia
Metanoia Communications specializes in Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and integrated 5G chipsets for Open RAN. Its silicon and software accelerate product development while ensuring compliance with 3GPP and O-RAN standards.

Contact
sales@metanoia-comms.com

About SynaXG
SynaXG is a Singapore-based pioneer in AI-native Radio Access Networks (AI-RAN). Its platform combines 5G RAN and AI workloads on commercial hardware, enabling efficient networks for 5G-Advanced and 6G.

Contact
contact@synaxg.com

About Aethertek
Aethertek develops mmWave and phased-array antenna solutions for wireless networks. Its FR2 and antenna integration expertise enables customers to deploy high-performance, open, interoperable 5G infrastructure.

Contact
Perrylin@aether-tek.com

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