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Tencent Cloud, the cloud unit of Chinese technology giant Tencent, will establish its first cloud region in Malaysia, comprising up to three availability zones in Johor, and will work with a local university to train more than 1,000 people in AI and cloud skills.

Zeekr, the premium electric-vehicle brand of China's Geely Holding Group, said its Malaysian unit has extended a discounted direct-current fast-charging rate of MYR1.20 ($0.29) per kilowatt-hour to all DC Handal charging stations nationwide, having previously offered it only at selected locations.

Manus, a Singapore-headquartered AI agent startup founded in China, will return to operating as an independent company and delete some user data, months after Chinese regulators blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of the startup.

China's Ant Group, the operator of Alipay, has upgraded its physician platform "Haodf for Doctor" into "AQ for Doctor," an AI-powered workstation for physicians covering online consultations, patient management, clinical decision support, and medical research.

China's technology giant Alibaba has launched a public beta of Wan3.0, an AI video generation model supporting clips of up to 30 seconds and multimodal inputs including text, image, video, audio, web pages, PDFs, and PowerPoint presentations.

National Payment Corporation (NAPAS), a payment platform in Vietnam, has connected its VietQRGlobal payment infrastructure with China's Weixin Pay, enabling Chinese visitors to scan QR codes and make payments in Vietnam.

Tencent Hy3 (formerly known as Tencent Hunyuan), the latest large language model developed by China's Tencent, is now available for international access, following the model's official release on July 6.

China's Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, the largest AI model in its Qwen large language and multimodal model family, featuring 2.4 trillion parameters and a context window of up to 1 million tokens.

Tencent Cloud, the cloud business under Chinese giant Tencent, has partnered with Pakistan's leading streaming platform tapmad to deliver live coverage of a major international football tournament to viewers across Pakistan, supporting more than 7 million concurrent viewers at peak with 99 percent uptime and ultra-low latency.

China's electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD and Australia's salary packaging and novated leasing provider Smart will jointly offer BYD and DENZA electric vehicles available through novated leases to more than 2.5 million Australians employed by Smart's clients.