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SK Networks and Sunway Join Forces to Drive AI Innovation and Explore Regional Expansion

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*Extensive collaboration expected in AI-powered products and systems••• including possible joint venture & share swap
*MoU will also see Sunway tapping the talent and innovation of PhnyX Lab, the Silicon Valley-based AI research and development arm of SK Networks
*SK Networks, “We’ll focus on boosting the Malaysian market and maximizing synergy between the two companies to drive greater corporate value.”

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SK Networks, a company steering the growth of its subsidiaries and scaling future value through AI-driven innovations, is ramping up its strategic collaboration with Sunway Group, a leading conglomerate in Southeast Asia with core interests in real estate, construction, healthcare, education, leisure and hospitality sectors.

SK Networks (CEO: Hojeong Lee) announced on October 30 that it had inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sunway to establish a wide-ranging partnership encompassing both companies and their subsidiaries.

On October 22, SK Networks, part of SK Group which is among the largest conglomerates in South Korea, hosted senior executives from Sunway, led by Group CEO of Digital and Strategic Investments Evan Cheah, to formalise this collaboration through an MoU signing ceremony at SK Networks’ headquarters in the Samil Building, Jongno-gu, Seoul.

Founded in 1974, Sunway today owns and manages three publicly-listed companies on Bursa Malaysia with a combined market capitalisation of more than RM35 billion / USD 8 billion, operating across 13 business divisions in 50 locations worldwide.

Sunway is highly regarded for its unique build-own-operate model, and its flagship Sunway City Kuala Lumpur is Malaysia’s first fully integrated, green and sustainable township, which attracts more than 42 million visits a year.

SK Magic, a subsidiary of SK Networks specialising in innovative home appliances, has already established a foothold in the Malaysian market through its existing relationship with Sunway. This MoU will deepen this partnership by identifying key areas to leverage synergies across multiple business sectors and regions where SK Networks and Sunway have a presence.

These initiatives include SK Magic’s ongoing development of innovative AI-powered products and the introduction of PhnyX Lab’s technology to develop and integrate AI systems within Sunway’s ecosystem.

Furthermore, SK Networks and Sunway are pushing for various collaboration models, such as establishment of a joint venture between SK Magic and Sunway, and possible share swap between SK Networks and Sunway.

Sunway Group CEO of Digital and Strategic Investments Evan Cheah said: “Our partnership with an AI-driven organization like SK Networks represents a natural synergy for Sunway’s own digital transformation journey.”

“As a conglomerate marking our 50th anniversary this year, we will continue to build on our history of embracing technology and innovation to evolve our businesses towards the next 50 years and beyond,” Evan added.

SK Networks plans to actively support the process following this agreement between the two companies to ensure that it translates into tangible results. The company aims to facilitate the smooth global expansion and collaboration of its existing businesses while continuing to enhance its value as an AI-driven company.

Hojeong Lee, President & CEO of SK Networks said, “We will establish a working group to develop specific collaboration strategies with Sunway, focusing on AI-related areas. Our objective is to generate visible synergies as we expand our presence in Malaysia. We are dedicated to facilitating seamless operations between our headquarters and subsidiaries while also exploring innovative avenues to identify new business models and nurture external partnerships that can create significant value.”

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Art Gathers in Beijing, Harmony Embraces All: 2026 Beijing Art Season to Open in May

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BEIJING, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The content of the 2026 Beijing Art Season was unveiled this week at Beijing’s 798 Art District. Running from May 21 to June 15, the festival will feature over 400 events, drawing hundreds of art institutions from roughly 20 countries.

Themed “Art Gathers in Beijing, Harmony Embraces All,” the Art Season aims to bring together artistic resources from China and abroad, creating a platform where different regions, media and artistic ideas can meet through exhibitions, forums and other cultural events.

At the center of the festivities are two powerhouse events-Gallery Weekend Beijing and Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, while also linking art districts, museums, and galleries across the city. Participants from nearly 20 countries and hundreds of art institutions are expected to take part, with more than 400 events planned. Actress Zhu Zhu is appointed Ambassador of the 2026 Beijing Art Season

2026 Beijing Art Season will introduce, for the first time, a structure connecting the primary gallery market with the secondary auction market, a move intended to strengthen the path from artistic cultivation to market circulation and support the continued development of Beijing’s art ecosystem. The Art Season is expected to generate an industry worth hundreds of millions of yuan and attract over 5 million participants.

For the first time, Beijing Art Season will extend across six districts of Beijing, combining exhibitions, art transactions, public education programs, city walks and consumer activities into a broader urban cultural festival.  Digital artworks will be on display at various commercial led throughout Beijing, bringing art beyond traditional venues and into everyday life.

The program will also connect with museums and more than 500 partner businesses across Beijing. Through NFC-enabled ticketing, visitors will be able to move between different scenes, with customized subsidy aimed at boosting consumption in tourism, dining and retail.

As 2026 marks the China-Brazil Year of Culture, the season will feature exhibitions and exchange programs centered on Brazilian culture. It will also include a children’s painting exhibition developed in collaboration with UNESCO, focusing on ecological awareness and intergenerational dialogue, alongside programming from international cultural institutions including the Instituto Cervantes Beijing, the Danish Cultural Center, the Korean Cultural Center and the Goethe-Institut.

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Weibo Corporation to Report First Quarter 2026 Financial Results on May 28, 2026

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BEIJING, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Weibo Corporation (NASDAQ: WB and HKEX: 9898), a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content, will announce its unaudited financial results for the first quarter 2026 before the U.S. market opens on Thursday, May 28, 2026. Following the announcement, Weibo’s management team will host a conference call from 7 AM – 8 AM Eastern Time on May 28, 2026 (or 7 PM – 8 PM Beijing Time on May 28, 2026) to present an overview of the Company’s financial performance and business operations.

Participants who wish to dial in to the teleconference must register through the below public participant link. Dial in and instruction will be in the confirmation email upon registering.

Participants Registration Link: https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BIb549b1f6935046d98b52a0fe61be918e

Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at http://ir.weibo.com.

About Weibo Corporation

Weibo is a leading social media for people to create, share and discover content online. Weibo combines the means of public self-expression in real time with a powerful platform for social interaction, content aggregation and content distribution. Any user can create and post a feed and attach multi-media and long-form content. User relationships on Weibo may be asymmetric; any user can follow any other user and add comments to a feed while reposting. This simple, asymmetric and distributed nature of Weibo allows an original feed to become a live viral conversation stream.

Weibo enables its advertising and marketing customers to promote their brands, products and services to users. Weibo offers a wide range of advertising and marketing solutions to companies of all sizes. The Company generates a substantial majority of its revenues from the sale of advertising and marketing services, including the sale of social display advertisement and promoted marketing offerings. Designed with a “mobile first” philosophy, Weibo displays content in a simple information feed format and offers native advertisement that conform to the information feed on our platform. To support the mobile format, we have developed and continuously refining our social interest graph recommendation engine, which enables our customers to perform people marketing and target audiences based on user demographics, social relationships, interests and behaviors, to achieve greater relevance, engagement and marketing effectiveness

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Weibo Corporation
Phone: +86 10 5898-3336
Email: ir@staff.weibo.com 

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Perceptive eClinical Launches Technology-Enabled Clinical Supply Consultancy in Alliance with Trialzen

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Expert-led clinical supply strategy powered by advanced planning and analytics technologies.

NOTTINGHAM, England and LASNE, Belgium, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Perceptive eClinical, a leading provider of interactive response technology (IRT) and eClinical solutions, and Trialzen, an expert-led Forecasting and Supply Technology company, today announced an alliance supporting Perceptive eClinical in the launch of its Clinical Intelligence Consultancy Service, Perceptive Clinical Intelligence. This transforms its long–standing clinical supply expertise into a fully integrated, expert–led service spanning the entire clinical trial lifecycle and enabled by Trialzen’s advanced clinical supply planning technologies.

Perceptive Clinical Intelligence combines Perceptive’s deep expertise in randomization and clinical supply optimization with data-driven, technology enabled mathematical optimization, simulation, and forecasting to support smarter planning across the trial lifecycle. This integrated offering helps sponsors design, stress test, and manage clinical supply strategies with greater confidence and operational control. By formalizing its in-house expertise and therapeutic experience, Perceptive unifies randomization, trial supply management technologies and clinical supply consulting to enable more informed, scalable, and lower risk supply decision making.

“Clinical trial supply decisions are too critical to rely on tools alone,” said Malcolm Morrissey, Head of Perceptive Clinical Intelligence. “While supply discussions often focus on stock levels and overage, the real risk is patient impact. Supply availability determines whether visits happen, treatment is delivered on time, and sites can operate with confidence. Effective supply management means looking beyond IP numbers to understand patient continuity and visit level risk across the entire trial.”

Industry benchmarks show that approximately 50% of Clinical Finished Goods (CFG) manufactured for clinical trials are never administered to patients, representing hundreds of millions of dollars in wasted drug supply each year1.

“Setting up Perceptive Clinical Intelligence reflects the next step in Perceptive’s evolution, combining deep clinical supply and randomization expertise with data–driven technology to enable smarter supply planning, and increased supply confidence, and continuity across the trial lifecycle,” said Shaun Hopgood, Chief Operating Officer at Perceptive eClinical.

Perceptive eClinical and Trialzen have each delivered proven results for sponsors, with real–world engagements generating savings exceeding $1 million and materially reducing supply overage.

A Technology Enabled, Expert-Led Approach

Delivered by Perceptive’s in–house specialists, the consultancy is built on 30 years of experience supporting biotech and large pharma across randomization and clinical supply management. It combines Perceptive’s proven supply–modelling expertise with Trialzen’s advanced calculation and simulation engine, fully integrated into Perceptive’s next–generation platform, Clinphone Pro.

Anchored in deep oncology expertise, where global scale, complex dosing, and multi–layered supply chains increase planning risk, the consultancy also draws on experience across Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Infectious Diseases, and supports emerging areas such as Precision and Nuclear Medicine, and Cell and Gene Therapies. 

Reflecting on this alliance and its objectives, Cedric Druck, CEO and Co–Founder of Trialzen, commented: “Trialzen was built by clinical supply experts who spent years watching planning decisions get made on spreadsheets and gut feel, then handed off to execution systems with no feedback loop. This collaboration with Perceptive closes that gap. By integrating our forecasting and simulation capabilities directly with their IRT platform, we enable sponsors to move from scenario planning to operational action in a single environment, with full transparency at every step.”

At the heart of this alliance is a shared belief that clinical supply planning and execution should live in one connected environment. “Together, Perceptive and Trialzen are working toward a unified way of operating, where strategic decisions and day–to–day execution come together, enabling greater visibility, smarter scenarios, and more confident supply decisions from manufacturing through to patient dosing”. said Tony Street, Senior Vice President Strategy at Trialzen.

Clients benefit from:

Faster study start-up and smoother amendments through early supply optimizationHigher quality supply decisions driven by expert oversight and data backed insightGreater confidence through strategic expert consultancy for complex trialsMid-study forecast adjustments and up-to-date quantitative support for key decisions

About Perceptive eClinical

Perceptive eClinical is a trusted leader in delivering advanced trial capabilities. With over 30 years of proven Interactive Response Technology (IRT) and supply management expertise, more than 500 regulatory approvals and support for three million patients worldwide, we deliver reliability, security and precision. This is reflected in our consistently high customer satisfaction score of 4.5 out of 5 over the past three years. Our future-proof IRT solution, Clinphone Pro, helps sponsors manage the speed, complexity and personalization of modern clinical trials. Built for flexibility and seamless integration, it supports smarter, more efficient studies across all phases and therapeutic areas. In 2025, Perceptive eClinical was recognized as a leader in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Assessment for RTSM Solutions, affirming our commitment to innovation, global delivery excellence and measurable value for sponsors and CROs.

About Trialzen

Trialzen is a technology company built by industry experts specializing in clinical trial supply forecasting and planning. Its Forecast & Planning Solution (FPS) is a purpose-built SaaS platform that enables sponsors and CROs to model, simulate, and optimize clinical supply strategies across the full trial lifecycle. Built by clinical supply experts, Trialzen combines advanced mathematical modelling and analytics with a transparent, user-friendly interface, allowing teams to evaluate scenarios, anticipate risk, and make informed supply decisions with speed and confidence. 

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McKinsey & Company, Clinical Supply Chains insights

Media Contact: Zara Broadfield, Marketing Director Perceptive eClinical, zara.broadfield@perceptive.com 

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