From $29 domestic flights to half-price hotel deals, Trip.com’s November Mega Sale brings a month of travel bargains across 11.11 and Black Friday

SYDNEY, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — November isn’t just for shopping carts – it’s for packing suitcases for Christmas too! Trip.com is giving Aussie travellers plenty of reasons to plan their next getaway, with its Black Friday Mega Sale bringing together a line-up of travel deals across 11.11 and Black Friday.

From bargain airfares to hotel steals and discounted travel experiences, Trip.com is packing November with deals worth setting an alarm for. Kicking off the shopping festivities, the sale will feature two major flash sale days on 10 and 11 November, with domestic flights from just $29, Bali flights from $109, 4-star Bali hotels from $19 a night, and even $1 eSIMs. More deals will follow on 27 November for Black Friday.

Closer to home, travellers can also enjoy exclusive deals at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Gold Coast, including $20 off Koala Connection Experiences and 50% off Astra Lumina tickets.

10 November: Flights Take Centre Stage

The savings take off on 10 November, with a series of limited-time flight offers dropping throughout the day.

Deals dropping at 12pm AEDT:

Note: Flight offers are for eligible departures from Australian cities, subject to applicable terms and conditions.

More flight savings will be released later in the day:

2pm: 5% off flights promo codes (capped at $25)6pm: Tiered flight promo codes offering up to $100 off, depending on booking value

11 November: Hotels, Attractions and More Join the Sale

On 11 November, the spotlight shifts to accommodation and experiences, with savings on hotels in Australia and overseas, alongside attractions, transport and travel essentials.

Deals dropping at 12pm AEDT:

Note: Hotel promo codes require a minimum two-night stay, while hotel flash sale prices are limited to a maximum of two nights per hotel per user, subject to availability.

More deals will drop at 2pm, including:

$1 eSIMs in a limited-time flash saleUniversal Studios Japan: Buy one, get one on selected 1-Day Pass offersShanghai Disneyland: Up to 50% off selected flash sale offersChina train tickets: Up to 90% off promo codesCar hire: Up to 50% off promo codesInternational and domestic hotels: 5% off promo code, capped at $15

At 6pm, tiered hotel promo codes offering up to $100 off eligible bookings will also be available.

27 November: Black Friday Brings Another Wave of Travel Deals

The November savings don’t end with 11.11. On 27 November, Trip.com will bring back popular deals, including domestic flights from $29, international flights to Bali from $109, Ho Chi Minh City from $149, alongside hotel promo codes of up to 50% off (capped at $100).

Travellers can also look forward to up to 50% off flight promo codes (capped at $100), up to $200 off airline coupons with participating carriers, $1 eSIMs, and discounts of up to 50% on car hire and up to 20% on airport transfers.

Family Fun with Exclusive Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Deals

Trip.com has partnered with Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary – one of Gold Coast’s iconic attractions – to offer an exclusive $20 off Koala Connection Experiences, with admission and encounter tickets from $69 for children and $89 for adults. Visitors can explore a purpose-built koala habitat, learn about its koalas from a keeper and take home a memorable photo. Named among Trip.com’s 2026 Global 100 Family-Friendly Attractions, the sanctuary will also offer 50% off Astra Lumina tickets (including general admission) during the 11.11 and Black Friday sales, for visits up to 19 December 2026.

Terms and Conditions apply. All promotional offers are available on a first-come, first-served basis within the specified period and while stocks last. Please note that all deals are in AEDT time.

For more information, please visit https://au.trip.com/.

About Trip.com

Trip.com is an international one-stop travel service provider, available in 27 languages across 48 countries and regions in 44 local currencies. Offering an extensive hotel and flight network of more than 1.7 million hotels and flights from over 680 airlines, along with over 350,000 in-destination activities, Trip.com covers 3,500 airports in 220 countries and regions. Trip.com‘s world-class 24/7 multilingual customer service helps to ‘create the best travel experience’ for its millions of customers worldwide. To book your next trip, visit Trip.com.

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TÜV Rheinland’s First ASIL D Product Certification in the Central Gateway System Category Validates LG’s Functional Safety Capabilities

News Summary

LG Electronics has earned its first ISO 26262 ASIL D product certification for its automotive central gateway system. It is also the first ASIL D product certification TÜV Rheinland has issued in this category.The certification builds on LG’s ISO 26262 process certification in 2017 and ASIL B product certification in 2021, demonstrating the company’s ability to meet the highest functional safety requirements at the product level.The independent validation is expected to strengthen automakers’ confidence in LG and enhance its competitiveness in future vehicle platform programs, as the company extends its expertise to next-generation communication control systems, gateways and domain controllers.

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LG Electronics (LG) has earned its first ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level D (ASIL D) product certification for its automotive central gateway system, developed as the central communication unit (CCU) 2.0 for the Genesis GV90. The certification, awarded by global testing and certification body TÜV Rheinland, is also the first ASIL D product certification the organization has issued in the automotive central gateway system category.*

Under ISO 26262, ASILs range from A to D based on the severity of potential harm, exposure to hazardous situations and controllability of the resulting risks. ASIL D, the highest level, requires the most stringent measures to prevent and mitigate safety-related failures. As part of the certification process, TÜV Rheinland comprehensively assessed LG’s development processes, design documentation and verification results, confirming the system’s compliance with applicable ASIL D requirements.

From Certified Processes to ASIL D-Certified Products

The certification is the latest step in LG’s efforts to advance its functional safety capabilities. The company obtained ISO 26262 process certification for its automotive development framework in 2017, followed by ASIL B product certification for its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) front camera module in 2021. Achieving ASIL D at the product level demonstrates LG’s ability to apply the highest functional safety requirements across the design, implementation and verification of an automotive product.

For global automakers, this independent, product-level validation offers further assurance of LG’s ability to deliver safety-critical automotive systems. It is also expected to enhance the company’s competitiveness in future vehicle platform programs.

Functional Safety Embedded in System Operations

LG’s central gateway system serves as the hub for vehicle communications, connecting electronic control units (ECUs) and managing data exchange across in-vehicle and external networks. When routing data over controller area network (CAN) and Ethernet interfaces, the system is designed to accurately transmit safety-related messages, detect routing malfunctions and relay relevant fault information to other ECUs.

The system also incorporates functional safety measures for over-the-air (OTA) software updates. These measures help prevent unintended updates and maintain safe control of vehicle start-up during updates and rollbacks. In addition, the system supports connected car services, features on demand and system diagnostics, along with cybersecurity functions such as intrusion monitoring and certificate-based authentication.

Strengthening Competitiveness for Future AIDV Platforms

As the automotive industry transitions toward AI-defined vehicles (AIDVs), central gateway systems are taking on a larger role. They manage communications across vehicle networks, enable OTA updates and support connected services, which makes functional safety increasingly critical.

The expertise LG gained through this project is applicable to other safety-critical automotive systems. That expertise spans functional safety development processes, design and verification methodologies, and certification. These capabilities lay the groundwork for LG to develop a broader range of automotive components, including next-generation communication control systems, gateways and domain controllers.

“Earning our first ASIL D product certification is a significant milestone for LG,” said Lee Sang-yong, head of the VS R&D Laboratory at the LG Vehicle Solution Company. “It reflects our progress from establishing certified functional safety processes to implementing and verifying the highest-level safety requirements in an automotive product. We will build on this accomplishment to strengthen automakers’ confidence in LG and advance next-generation solutions for the AIDV era.”

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About LG Electronics Vehicle Solution Company

The LG Vehicle Solution Company (VS) is bringing LG’s unique mobility innovations to the automotive industry. As a trusted and innovative partner, the company provides intelligent solutions including head units, displays, connectivity, ADAS vision systems, and software solutions integrating human-centered AI and automotive engineering into the modern AI/software-defined vehicle. Committed to “Driving better future mobility,” the company has diversified its portfolio to further strengthen its capabilities, including automotive lighting systems, e-powertrain and cybersecurity. For more information, visit www.LG.com/global/mobility. To stay updated with the latest news, subscribe to the LG mobility newsletter, LG Loop at www.LG.com/global/mobility/newsletter and follow the LG VS Company LinkedIn channel at www.linkedin.com/company/lgvehiclesolution.

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SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — For startups entering foreign markets, proving their technology and turning it into real business is an uphill battle. They must navigate local regulations, understand market demand and win the trust of companies wary of adopting new technology. CrossHub, a developer of identity verification and payment solutions, is tackling these hurdles by running proofs of concept (PoCs) with overseas partners, building a track record, and converting those references into field deployments and partnerships with financial institutions.

A voice authentication pilot in Singapore’s healthcare sector shows how CrossHub is testing the real-world potential of its technology abroad. This year, the company signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with Singapore’s National Healthcare Group Diagnostics (NHGD) and is currently running a PoC. Last month, it completed an on-site demonstration ahead of the service launch.

In Singapore, patients must state their name and address by voice before seeing a doctor. Until now, staff have manually checked whether the information matched the patient. CrossHub is addressing this with V-Pay, a voice authentication solution that analyzes a speaker’s voice to confirm their identity.

“If this moves to a full contract, we’ll have the opportunity to use voice data from northern Singapore,” said Kim Dong-ju, team lead at CrossHub. “We believe the technology can be applied not only to healthcare but to other industries as well.”

CrossHub is investing heavily in overseas pilots because earning the trust of adopting companies matters as much as technical performance. Businesses considering identity verification technology need proven cases that demonstrate not only accuracy and convenience but also security and data protection. In tightly regulated industries such as finance, a startup’s pitch alone rarely leads to adoption.

“Startups offer innovative technology, but traditional industries are reluctant to adopt it,” Kim explained. “They demand safety and references, so we decided to solve that problem overseas first.”

CrossHub has validated its technology through a range of PoCs with partners including French security firm Thales. Building on that, it has begun collaborating with Korean financial institutions such as Woori Bank, Samsung Card, Woori Card and Hana Bank—leveraging its overseas track record as a foundation for partnerships at home.

The company was born out of the frustrations foreign tourists face with Korea’s digital services. Many major Korean apps require mobile phone-based identity verification, making it difficult for short-term visitors without a Korean phone number to use services such as Kakao T or Baemin. CrossHub set out to solve this by developing passport-based identity verification.

Its core technologies are self-sovereign identity (SSI) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP). SSI lets users manage their own identity rather than having personal data stored by individual services, while ZKP allows users to prove a necessary fact without disclosing the underlying personal information. CrossHub combines the two to verify identity while minimizing the storage and exposure of personal data.

The company is now expanding from identity verification into payments and remittances. Travel Pass, an integrated payment and travel platform for foreign visitors to Korea, is being developed with Woori Bank. It aims to help tourists pay for goods and access transportation and tourism services in Korea. In September, CrossHub broadened the service’s reach by signing an integration and sales agreement for transportation and tourism products with Japanese travel platform Linktivity.

CrossHub is also exploring opportunities in cross-border remittance. Under a project commissioned by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), it is developing a stable-token remittance solution based on cross-border API connections, with plans to link Korean and Vietnamese banks.

Kim expects blockchain to become less of a standalone industry and more of a foundational technology that enhances fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technology and AI agents. Beyond technical maturity, he stressed, what matters is securing services and markets that users find easy to adopt.

CrossHub tailors its approach to each overseas market. Japan’s regulatory environment resembles Korea’s, but market entry and building trust take time. Singapore, with its advanced financial services and relatively active collaboration between startups and corporates, is being positioned as a hub for pilots and commercialization. The company plans to expand technology validated in Singapore into Europe and North America, with North America as its long-term target market.

Product development continues on an annual cycle. CrossHub launched its identity verification solution IDBlock in 2024, followed by the payment solution B-Pay in 2025. This year it introduced V-Pay, featuring voice authentication, and it is developing another product slated for release in 2027. The company accumulates technology from identity verification to payments and voice authentication, then turns it into real business.

CrossHub has also broadened its investor base. In 2025, it raised funding from four accelerators, and all four returned as follow-on investors in its recently closed round. Two banks and a government institution also participated.

Support from SVC has aided its global expansion. CrossHub uses SVC as a base for Travel Pass, one of its flagship services. Located near Hongdae, the space allows the team to engage directly with tourists and better understand the needs of foreign visitors to Seoul. Networking through support programs, along with meeting rooms, conference spaces and other facilities, has also helped drive the business forward.

“Since moving into SVC, our global networking has grown, expanding our reach from about 20 countries last year to about 40 this year,” Kim said. “The diverse networks and support programs have helped us scale the business.”

CrossHub plans to convert the partnerships and validation cases it has secured abroad into actual contracts and service operations, and then extend them to other countries and industries. “Our strength is that we build up and expand our technology every year and commercialize it,” Kim said. “We aim to grow into a technology-driven fintech company.”

The company is also a resident of SVC Seoul, a global startup hub in Seoul’s Hongdae area. The hub was established to connect startups with strong overseas growth potential to companies, universities, and investors in Korea and abroad.

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