CHA Bio Group head outlines vision for stem cells to fight diseases, extend life

Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS), Korea's natural gas monopoly, on Thursday reported its third-quarter net profit of 272.4 billion won ($204.6 million), a surge of 213.8 percent from a year earlier. Operating income for the July-September period was 587.8 billion won, up a sharp 51.1 percent from a year ago, the public utility company said in a regulatory filing. Revenue also rose 17.8 percent to 7.5 trillion won. The operating profit was 18.9 percent higher than the average estimate, according to a survey by Yonhap Infomax, the financial data firm of Yonhap News Agency. The estimate of net profit was not available.

Samsung is turning everyday purchases near its workplaces into support for vulnerable children, bringing local businesses, employees and labor representatives together in a community-giving initiative that links commercial activity with social welfare. The company held its 2026 Sharing Day event Thursday at DSR Tower, its semiconductor complex in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, wrapping up a two-week Sharing Week campaign and holding the first donation ceremony for its Sharing Stores program. More than 108,000 employees from 23 Samsung affiliates participated in donations, blood drives and volunteer activities during the campaign, which began Nov. 2. Under Sharing Stores, restaurants and cafes near Samsung workplaces donate part of their sales to support children and teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds when employees patronize participating businesses. The program now operates at 22 workplaces across 17 Samsung affiliates, including Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Display and Samsung SDI, with 370 local businesses participating. Samsung also raised 300 million wo

LG CNS brought together more than 100 researchers and industry professionals to explore how physical artificial intelligence (AI) can move beyond laboratories and into factories, warehouses and other industrial settings. The company recently hosted its 2026 Robotics & Physical AI Forum at its Future Robotics Lab headquarters in Magok, Seoul, with participants including faculty members, graduate students and company employees from the University of Toronto, Sogang University, Chung-Ang University and Korea University. Discussions focused on advances in robot foundation models, data, intelligent robotic hardware and simulation, as well as technical challenges involved in deploying physical AI in real-world operations. Drawing on more than two decades of experience and over 1,000 smart factory and smart logistics projects, LG CNS presented its approach to bringing robotics technologies into industrial environments. The company also introduced two platforms launched this year: PhysicalWorks Forge, a robot-learning platform, and PhysicalWorks Baton, an agentic AI-based platform for robot oper

Filipinos have never needed a bank to move money. They have the padala, the paluwagan savings circle, the five-six lender who knows your mother, and the sari-sari store owner whose notebook doubles as the country’s most informal credit bureau. For decades, that ingenuity filled the gap left by banks that simply did not want small […] The post Beyond GCash and Maya: 30 emerging fintech startups rewiring money in the Philippines appeared first on e27.

Venture debt used to be a tool for late-stage companies with big revenues and bigger investors. That is changing in Southeast Asia. In the first half of 2026, the region recorded 23 debt deals worth US$1.36 billion, up from 17 a year earlier. The average deal fell from about US$99 million to US$59 million, according […] The post Venture debt is reaching smaller startups. What founders should check before signing appeared first on e27.

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said he feels “strongly” that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang should resign following reports alleging the tech leader had an "intimate relationship” with an accused Chinese spy and another with an Nvidia executive who reported to him. "I can't believe we are even considering him not resigning. I mean, I do feel...

Players who have pre-ordered the game digitally can start downloading it now, but will need up to 212GB of free space.

Airwallex wants Singapore to know it is staying put. The cross-border payments firm said on Wednesday it will invest more than SGD2 billion (about US$1.5 billion) in the city-state over the next five years and grow its local headcount from over 750 to more than 1,000. The move cements Singapore as one of its two […] The post Airwallex’s US$1.5B Singapore pledge dwarfs the island’s entire fintech funding haul appeared first on e27.

The show is over. The founder sits on the hotel bed and counts the cards. Four hundred, give or take. A dozen promises to call next quarter. Several requests for samples. Everyone said the product was good. Not one conversation with someone who would actually use it. Who comes to the booth Importers. Distributors. Consultants. […] The post Four hundred business cards. Zero customers appeared first on e27.

The iPad Air could become the third iPad model to adopt OLED, following the iPad Pro and iPad mini.

Nvidia shares fell more than 8 per cent at one point in US after-hours trading on Wednesday as CEO Jensen Huang’s prospects of hanging onto his role became more clouded after media reports of a board meeting and another extramarital affair. The drop in the American AI chip giant’s share price erased a 2.9 per cent rebound in the regular trading session, after the stock lost over 9.5 per cent in trading on Monday and Tuesday. It came as speculation mounted over whether Huang would keep his job....