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Agoda Reveals Flexible Work Is Reshaping Travel, Fuelling Interest in Extended Overseas Stays Among Thai Travelers

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Thai travelers are increasingly embracing extended overseas stays, according to accommodation search data from digital travel platform Agoda. For stays of 30 nights or longer, Da Nang, Bali, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, and Seoul ranked among the most-searched overseas destinations.

The findings highlight how flexible working arrangements are reshaping travel habits, giving people greater freedom to choose when and where they work. As a result, travelers are no longer viewing travel as an escape from work, but instead are integrating work into the lifestyles they want, fueling the growth of longer stays and the rise of “bleisure” travel. These destinations are increasingly attracting month-long stays thanks to their combination of affordability, quality infrastructure, and appealing lifestyle offerings. For Thai travelers exploring the possibility of longer stays abroad, affordability, lifestyle, and reliable infrastructure appear to be just as important as traditional sightseeing attractions. Based on Agoda accommodation searches for stays of 30 nights or longer, Da Nang leads travel interest, reflecting its appeal as a destination that combines low living costs, modern amenities, and easy access to both beaches and city life. Bali remains a perennial favourite among digital nomads, thanks to its established co-working ecosystem and wellness-driven lifestyle, while Tokyo continues to attract strong interest for its world-class infrastructure and seamless connectivity. Kuala Lumpur is also gaining momentum, offering value for money alongside modern urban conveniences. Ho Chi Minh City and Seoul complete the top six, highlighting growing interest in destinations that balance affordability, culture, and quality of life.

The trend is equally evident in searches for long stays in Thailand. Accommodation search data for stays of 30 nights or more shows coastal and island destinations amongst the most popular rankings, reflecting strong interest in places that offer a better work-life balance alongside natural surroundings. Pattaya ranks first, with its combination of beachfront living, urban conveniences, and proximity to Bangkok making it an appealing option for extended stays. Phuket and Koh Samui follow closely behind, supported by strong international connectivity, established expatriate communities, and a broad range of accommodation options, from hotel to villas. Meanwhile, Hua Hin and Cha-am continue to attract attention from travelers seeking a more relaxed seaside lifestyle within easy reach of the capital.

Thailand’s southern islands also feature prominently in long-stay accommodation searches. Krabi, Koh Pha-ngan, Koh Tao, and Koh Lanta all rank among the most searched destinations, underscoring growing interest in locations that combine lifestyle appeal with the flexibility to work remotely. Koh Pha-ngan has evolved beyond its Full Moon Party reputation to become increasingly associated with wellness and digital nomad communities, while Koh Tao has climbed the rankings year-on-year, buoyed by its renowned diving scene and laid-back atmosphere.

Beyond the south, Koh Chang’s jungle-covered landscapes and slower pace of life have helped it emerge as an appealing alternative to Thailand’s more developed island destinations. Khao Lak and Rayong round out the top 15 most-searched destinations, reinforcing a broader trend in long-stay accommodation searches: travelers are increasingly drawn to locales that offer coastal living, lifestyle quality, and the flexibility to blend work and leisure from one location.

Akaporn Rodkong, Country Director, Thailand and Indochina at Agoda said: “The line between work and travel is becoming increasingly blurred as flexible working arrangements give people more freedom over when and where they work. Our data shows Thai travelers searching for longer stays in overseas cities that offer a compelling mix of lifestyle, affordability, and infrastructure, while international travelers exploring extended stays in Thailand continue to gravitate toward the country’s islands and coastal destinations. At Agoda, we’re committed to making it easy for travelers to discover the right stay for this evolving way of traveling, whether they’re working remotely, taking an extended break, or blending both.”

For those looking to reimagine their next trip through a bleisure lens, offers over 6 million holiday properties worldwide, alongside more than 300,000 experiences and over 130,000 flight routes. Whether working remotely for a month or simply extending a stay to experience a destination more deeply, travelers can find everything they need to plan their next extended trip at www.agoda.com or the Agoda app.

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Svalner Atlas | Advisors wins three Firm of the Year awards at the ITR Europe Tax Awards 2026

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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The awards recognise the expertise and impact of Svalner Atlas’ work for clients across its markets

Svalner Atlas was named:

Finland: Transfer Pricing Firm of the YearNetherlands: Tax Advisory Firm of the YearSweden: Tax Advisory Firm of the Year

What the awards recognise

The ITR Europe Tax Awards recognise firms for work that stands out for its innovation, complexity, scale and impact. The assessment is based on significant client matters, independent market research and client feedback.

The three awards recognise Svalner Atlas’ ability to combine deep local expertise with international capabilities, bringing together specialists across markets and disciplines to help clients navigate complex tax and transaction matters.

“Tax challenges do not stop at national borders. Clients need advisers who understand the local detail, coordinate effectively across markets, and translate complexity into practical advice. These awards recognise that approach and the expertise of our teams,” said Viktor Sandberg, Group CEO of Svalner Atlas.

About Svalner Atlas | Advisors

Svalner Atlas | Advisors is a leading tax and transaction advisory firm operating across the Nordics and Benelux. Its more than 450 professionals advise entrepreneurs, private equity firms and multinational corporations, combining local market knowledge with international capabilities.

For more information, visit svalneratlas.com.

About the ITR Europe Tax Awards

The International Tax Review Europe Tax Awards recognise leading tax and transfer pricing firms and practitioners across Europe. Firms are assessed on significant client matters, with particular attention to innovation, complexity, scale and impact, supported by market research and client feedback.

The awards were presented at The Londoner in London on 17 September 2026.

For more information contact:
Svalner Atlas: Frida Rydin, Group COO
E-mail: frida.rydin@svalneratlas.com

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Antonony Gu, Huawei Cloud: All for AI, Huawei Cloud Stack Powers a New Era of Intelligence

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei hosted the Huawei Cloud Summit under the theme “Agentic Hybrid Cloud: Powering a New Era of Intelligence.” Antonony Gu, President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, delivered a keynote speech at the summit, discussing the changes driven by AI agents, Huawei Cloud Stack’s evolution across four key areas—cloud infrastructure, data, AI, and ecosystem—guided by the principle of “All for AI”, and its commitment to helping enterprises embrace the agentic AI era.

AI agents are among the most significant developments in AI today. Agents for coding, workplaces, design, customer service, marketing, and more are rapidly redefining how businesses get done. Antonony Gu highlighted that the rapid adoption of AI agents is driving three fundamental changes:

The actors driving business execution are changing: from humans using applications to human-agent collaboration and agent-to-agent (A2A) collaboration. AI agents are emerging at scale as a new class of digital employees.Resource provisioning is changing: AI agents are task-oriented, relying on compute, data, and models that are packaged and readily available for invocation. Resource delivery is shifting from layer-by-layer assembly to integrated capabilities organized around agent-driven tasks.What’s being managed is changing: The focus is shifting from traditional IT resources, such as compute, storage, and networking, to AI compute, data, and models. Managing these resources through separate systems can create new IT silos.

Addressing these changes, Huawei Cloud has introduced an AI agent-ready hybrid cloud architectureNext, comprising four key capabilities: an agile, elastic cloud infrastructure designed for continuous evolution and unified general-purpose and AI compute; an AI-native capability hub that connects data, compute, and tokens; an agent-native enablement platform for developing and running AI agents at scale; and intelligent operations and end-to-end security capabilities covering the entire AI agent lifecycle. Antonony Gu emphasized, “As AI agent adoption continues to accelerate over the next three to five years, a deterministic hybrid cloud architecture is a clear path forward for enterprises in the agentic world.”

As the agentic AI era approaches, Huawei Cloud Stack is evolving across four key areas: infrastructure, data, AI, and ecosystem.

Infrastructure evolution, building the foundation for AI: Huawei Cloud Stack builds Agentic Infra as the foundation for the AI era. This infrastructure supports the latest A5 SuperPoDs. With technologies like NPU pooling and memory snapshots, compute utilization can increase from 30% to 70%. Huawei Cloud Stack also provides an observable, measurable, and governable operations and management framework for AI agents, turning cloud management platforms into intelligent management hubs. It further provides end-to-end protection for infrastructure, models, and AI agents.Unleashing data value, turning enterprise data into intelligent productivity: Huawei Cloud Stack provides end-to-end data lifecycle capabilities for reliable data management, efficient data delivery, intelligent data use, and trusted data circulation. With a decoupled storage and compute architecture, AI DataLake for multimodal data management, and DataArts for intelligent, data-driven decision-making, Huawei Cloud Stack helps turn data into a new source of productivity while laying a solid data foundation for the agentic AI era.AI-driven industry, bringing AI into production across industries: Huawei Cloud is increasing its investment in foundation models and integrating such models with industry know-how to drive automated model iteration and continuous evolution. It offers leading domain-specific foundation models, such as Vision-Language Model (VLM), Scientific Computing Model, and Prediction Model, as well as OptVerse AI Solver for optimization and decision-making. Meanwhile, Huawei Cloud Stack leverages its model training and inference platform to deliver high-performance inference and a reliable supply of high-quality tokens, ensuring uninterrupted execution of agent tasks.Partner co-creation, building an open AI ecosystem together: Huawei Cloud remains committed to open collaboration on AI, backed by targeted incentives and dedicated AI and service capability improvement programs. Together with partners and developers, Huawei Cloud is building an Industry AI Foundry. By bringing together reference solutions and practices from areas such as Smart Finance and Smart Government, it aims to accelerate the replication of proven AI solutions across enterprise scenarios.

The agentic AI era is opening up new possibilities for enterprises. Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud Stack, guided by the principle of “All for AI,” will continue to invest heavily in Agentic Infra, data, and AI. Together with partners, Huawei Cloud Stack will foster an open ecosystem, helping enterprises build, use, and manage cloud environments efficiently and bring AI into production across industries.

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Moscow Game Hub at TGS: Survive The Secret Dark Antarctic Base in “The Black Ice” or Destroy Your Enemies with Ballet Moves in “TSAREVNA”

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TOKYO, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tokyo Game Show 2026 is a milestone edition, running five days and gathering companies from 53 countries. The Moscow Game Hub booth deserves special attention: 12 Moscow studios present 29 projects, 19 localized into Japanese.

Horror games form the largest showcase section, with six innovative titles. Tiny Bunny (Game Art Pioneers) is a non-linear visual novel about a boy in a remote taiga village; player choices shape the story, with dozens of possible endings. The Black Ice is survival horror set at abandoned Vostok Antarctic station, where players uncover staff’s fate amid constant resource shortages. Fans of Exit 8 will enjoy Cauldron Inn, a dark folktale rooted in Slavic mythology where players spot anomalies in repeating locations to escape. In Run Away From Me: Alexandra, standard UI gives way to the heroine’s fitness tracker and phone screen, and panic directly impacts quest-solving ability. FIRE AND ASHES is immersive first-person horror reacting to sound: a scream may solve puzzles, yet only total silence can save you.

Among action titles, TSAREVNA: Age of Tales (WATT Studio) stands out. Drawing on Slavic folktales, ballet serves as a weapon. Its combat animations were made with a Bolshoi prima ballerina in a 60-camera Moscow motion-capture studio. Showcase premiere PIO: A Robot’s Story (Black Caviar Games) is a Souls-lite adventure following inventor Kira and robot PIO. Its TGS 2026 demo opens the story’s first chapter.

Three metroidvanias are on display: Slavania, Awaken: Astral Blade and Eclipse 2: Invasion of Darkness, blending metroidvania and hack-and-slash.

“Horror is the largest block at our booth — and that is a deliberate choice. Japan is where the genre was born, and we are bringing a Moscow reading of it to the audience that knows it best. Nineteen of our titles are already localized into Japanese. At a show with four thousand booths, what makes a visitor stop is a mechanic they have not seen before,” said Anastasia Rybkina, Head of Moscow Game Hub.

While showcasing titles, developers negotiate Japanese-market publishing deals. They offer Japanese companies localization and outsourced development for Russian-language audiences — Russian is among Steam’s top-3 languages. Moscow Game Hub hosts 70 resident companies with infrastructure from motion capture to sound recording.

More details about the games, screenshots and photos in the press kit at the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w-vqwAT8s8NHve5UVwq5ik4-pQ8zfyZ_

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