Southeast Asia News Desk

Washington, D.C., Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, Sept 24, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Meta, SoftBank Corp., IPS Inc., TM Technology Services Sdn. Bhd., PT XLSmart Telecom Sejahtera Tbk, and NEC Corporation are collaborating to develop the Candle submarine cable system. Inception Ceremony The Candle submarine cable system is a 24-fiber pair, 8,000 […]

TOKYO, Sept 19, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – NEC Corporation (hereinafter “NEC”) and MOTER Technologies, Inc. (hereinafter “MOTER”), a U.S.-based subsidiary of Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd. that develops software*1, announced today that they have entered into a capital alliance agreement, effective August 2025. Background In recent years the mobility industry has […]

TOKYO, Sept 19, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (hereafter, Mitsubishi Motors) announced that Mitsubishi Motors Europe B.V., Mitsubishi Motors’ subsidiary in Europe, will begin a sequential launch of the all-new Eclipse Cross battery electric vehicle (hereafter, BEV) for the European market before the end of 2025. The model will be […]

All-New Eclipse Cross TOKYO, September 18, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (hereafter, Mitsubishi Motors) announced that Mitsubishi Motors Europe B.V., Mitsubishi Motors’ subsidiary in Europe, will begin a sequential launch of the all-new Eclipse Cross battery electric vehicle (hereafter, BEV) for the European market before the end of 2025. The […]

Delica Mini                                                                   eK Space TOKYO, September 18, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (hereafter, Mitsubishi Motors) will begin sales […]

Toyota City, Japan, September 18, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) unveiled a partially upgraded GR Corolla today and announced that orders are now being accepted at Toyota vehicle dealers across Japan, with sales to commence on November 3. GR Corolla Improvements 1) Leveraging lessons learned from competing in Japan’s […]

TOKYO, Japan, September 18, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Honda will exhibit Honda Koraidon, a future mobility concept, at the Honda Collection Hall during the 2025 FIM*1 MotoGP World Championship Round 17, the MOTUL Grand Prix of Japan (Japanese GP), to be held at Mobility Resort Motegi (Tochigi Prefecture) from Friday, September 26 […]

TOKYO, September 18, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (hearafter, Mitsubishi Motors) announced today that it has increased its equity stake in FleetPartners Group Limited (hereafter, FleetPartners), a leading automotive financial services company in Australia and New Zealand, to 19.93% as of September 17. In June last year, Mitsubishi Motors acquired […]

TOKYO, September 18, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has recently been awarded a contract from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) to manufacture 20 units of outer vertical targets, which are critical components of divertors, for ITER(*1,*2), the experimental fusion reactor currently under construction in […]

TOKYO – September 17, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – NTT, Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda, Tokyo; President and CEO: Akira Shimada; hereinafter “NTT”) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda, Tokyo; President and CEO: Eisaku Ito; hereinafter “MHI”) conducted an optical wireless power transmission experiment using laser beam to wirelessly transmit energy 1 kilometer away. […]

TOKYO, September 17, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Corporation (“MC”) is pleased to announce that Anglo American Sur S.A. (“AAS”), in which MC holds a 20.4% stake, has entered into a definitive agreement with Codelco to implement a joint mine plan for their adjacent copper operations in Chile: Los Bronces and Andina. […]

TOKYO, September 8, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, CEO: Haruo Naito, “Eisai”) announced today that etalanetug (development code: E2814), an investigational anti-MTBR (microtubule binding region) tau antibody, was granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Fast Track designation is an FDA program that […]

TOKYO, Japan, September 16, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Honda has unveiled its first electric motorcycle, “Honda WN7,” in Europe. Honda aims to achieve carbon neutrality across all products and corporate activities by 2050, with the goal of making all motorcycle products carbon-neutral by the 2040s. To this end, Honda is positioning motorcycle […]

HONG KONG, Sep 17, 2025 – (ACN Newswire) – HighTide Therapeutics, Inc. (2511.HK), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of multifunctional multi-targeted therapies for metabolic diseases, announced that data from the Phase 3 SYMPHONY 2 trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of HTD1801 in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is being […]

TOKYO, Japan, September 16, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Honda R&D Co., Ltd. (Honda) today announced that it has developed a new “chemical sorting” technology, which sorts and extracts reusable plastics from waste plastic parts that contain solid contaminants unique to automotive waste. Honda will build a pilot facility with a maximum processing […]

TOKYO, September 16, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) — NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has published the ESG Databook 2025, a report on its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives from April 2024 onwards. NEC ESG Databook 2025URL: https://www.nec.com/en/global/sustainability/report/index.html As outlined in its Mid-term Management Plan 2025 (*), NEC aims to create social and environmental value […]

TOKYO, Sept 16, 2025, FREMONT, Calif., Sept 15, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – JSR Corporation, a leading technology company focused on material innovation and the parent company of Inpria Corporation, a metal oxide photoresist solution provider, Lam Research Corp. (Nasdaq: LRCX), a global leader in semiconductor fabrication equipment and services, today announced that JSR/Inpria and […]

Toyota City, Japan, September 15, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced today that it has begun sales of the e-Palette BEV, which can be used for various mobility services, as of September 15. e-Palette features a spacious interior and large windows that create a sense of openness. It is […]

TOKYO, September 12, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) — The University of Osaka D3 Center will begin trial operations of the “Osaka University Compute and sTOrage Platform Urging open Science” (OCTOPUS), a computational and data platform promoting open science built by NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), starting this September, with full-scale operations commencing in […]

TOKYO, September 12, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) announced today that it intends to launch the GR Yaris “Aero performance package”, which incorporates insights gained from motorsports, at Toyota vehicle dealers across Japan on October 1, 2025. GR Yaris “Aero performance package” (Japan specifications) – The GR Yaris “Aero […]

Pilot plant for membrane dehydration systems TOKYO, September 12, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SEANetwork) – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has achieved the target performance of over 99.5vol% ethanol purity at a pilot plant for membrane dehydration systems (MMDS®: Mitsubishi Membrane Dehydration System) installed at MHI’s Nagasaki Carbon Neutral Park within the Nagasaki District […]