Malaysia’s LIMA exhibition for defence, aerospace and maritime businesses will host a strong contingent from Australia.

Australian data centre operator NEXTDC Limited is building its first overseas facility in Malaysia.

Tourism Research Australia will start collecting data on business events to measure industry performance and help inform decision making.

Austrade invites you to join the 2023 Australian Mission to the ADB Business Opportunities Fair (BOF) in Manila, Philippines from 3 to 5 October 2023. The ADB BOF is a one-stop forum for consultants and contractors from around the world looking to provide goods, works, and services for ADB projects in the Indo-Pacific region. This is a great opportunity to maximise your chances of participating in major international aid projects. • gain first-hand information and insights about opportunities funded by the Asian Development Bank. • hear about key priorities, as well as upcoming business opportunities • network with industry peers and ADB specialists relevant to your sector and countries of interest • establish your credentials with the Asian Development Bank.

The Mongolia Mining Exhibition is the country’s top mining & oil event with Mongolia Mining Expo 2023 being the 12th year of the Expo. The Expo has been central to successful market entry and expansion strategies for many Australian METS firms. Attracting senior executives, mine superintendents, procurement managers, technical staff and potential partners, Mongolia Mining Expo is seen as the gathering of the Mongolian mining industry.

The Study Australia Education Fair in Mongolia will be a face-to-face event again in September 2023. Capitalise on the growing demand for study in Australia post-COVID and engage directly with prospective students and their parents in Mongolia.

In May 2023, Austrade’s International Education teams in South Korea and Japan delivered face-to-face Study Australia Education Fairs for the first time in four years.

Today I am pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to the Tourism Australia Board.

The Australian Government welcomes today’s announcement by China to re-register two of Australia’s important barley exporters.

This week I asked the Joint Standing Committee for Trade and Investment Growth consider the Australian Government’s approach to negotiating trade and investment agreements with international partners.

Today Australia has been reincluded on China’s list of approved outgoing group travel destinations.

The Malaysian Australian Alumni Council is seeking nominations for the 2023 Malaysian Australian Alumni Awards. The event aims to recognise outstanding Malaysian graduates of Australian Universities through six categories.

The Australia-UK FTA will make Rathbone Wine Group’s award-winning cool-climate wines more affordable for consumers in the UK.

Tassal is exporting to India for the first time, aided by tariff cuts under the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement.

First Nations business Aldridge Railway Signals was named Exporter of the Year at Supply Nation’s Supplier Diversity Awards.

From today Australian and Indonesian businesses and workers will have even greater opportunities to boost their skills and expertise, with the signing of an expanded Memorandum of Understanding on the Indonesia-Australia Skills Development Exchange Pilot.

The Australian Government is proud to announce the upgrading of the Agreement Establishing the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA).

The Australian Government has today launched Invested: Australia's Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040 to deepen Australia's economic engagement with our region and ensure our shared future prosperity.

Auxin Solar named more than a dozen companies in its petition to Commerce Department officials.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has received two applications for preliminary permits for a pumped storage project at Lake Elsinore in California.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved plans to add around 25,500 MW of renewable energy resources and 15,000 MW of energy storage and demand response resources by 2032.  The decision also adopted a 35 million metric ton (MMT) electric sector greenhouse gas emission (GHG) planning target. That goal, also to be achieved by 2032, is tighter than an earlier 46 […]

NVIDIA today announced a series of collaborations with SoftBank Corp. designed to accelerate Japan’s sovereign AI initiatives and further its global technology leadership while also unlocking billions of dollars in AI revenue opportunities for telecommunications providers worldwide.

Even post-spooky season, GFN Thursday has some treats for GeForce NOW members: a new batch of 17 games joining the cloud in November. Catch the five games available to stream this week, including Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the highly anticipated next installment in BioWare’s beloved fantasy role-playing game series. Players who purchased the GeForce NOW Read Article

A new AI-powered, imaging-based technology that creates accurate three-dimensional models of tumors, veins and other soft tissue offers a promising new method to help surgeons operate on, and better treat, breast cancers. The technology, from Illinois-based startup SimBioSys, converts routine black-and-white MRI images into spatially accurate, volumetric images of a patient’s breasts. It then illuminates Read Article

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Austin is drawing people to jobs, music venues, comedy clubs, barbecue and more. But with this boom has come a big city blues: traffic jams. Rekor, which offers traffic management and public safety analytics, has a front-row seat to the increasing traffic from an influx of new residents migrating to Austin. Rekor works with the Read Article

Consulting giants including Accenture, Deloitte, EY Strategy and Consulting Co., Ltd. (or EY Japan), FPT,  Kyndryl and Tata Consultancy Services Japan (TCS Japan) are working with NVIDIA to establish innovation centers in Japan to accelerate the nation’s goal of embracing enterprise AI and physical AI across its industrial landscape. The centers will use NVIDIA AI Read Article

Established 77 years ago, Mitsui & Co stays vibrant by building businesses and ecosystems with new technologies like generative AI and confidential computing. Digital transformation takes many forms at the Tokyo-based conglomerate with 16 divisions. In one case, it’s an autonomous trucking service, in another it’s a geospatial analysis platform. Mitsui even collaborates with a Read Article

To provide high-quality medical care to its population — around 30% of whom are 65 or older — Japan is pursuing sovereign AI initiatives supporting nearly every aspect of healthcare. AI tools trained on country-specific data and local compute infrastructure are supercharging the abilities of Japan’s clinicians and researchers so they can care for patients, Read Article

Robots transporting heavy metal at a Toyota plant. Yaskawa’s robots working alongside human coworkers in factories. To advance efforts like these virtually, Rikei Corporation develops digital twin tooling to assist planning. And if that weren’t enough, diversified retail holdings company Seven & i Holdings is running digital twin simulations to enhance customer experiences. Physical AI Read Article

The next technology revolution is here, and Japan is poised to be a major part of it. At NVIDIA’s AI Summit Japan on Wednesday, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son shared a sweeping vision for Japan’s role in the AI revolution. Speaking in Tokyo, Huang underscored that AI Read Article

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