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Egret Island Gathers Hometown Sentiments, Integration Opens a New Chapter — The 18th Straits Forum Grandly Opens in Xiamen
Unchanged Original Aspiration for 18 Years, Non-governmental Exchange Remains Vibrant
Themed “Expanding Non-governmental Exchanges, Deepening Integrated Development,” this forum continues its consistent characteristics of being people-driven, grassroots-oriented, and broad-based. It has planned four major sectors: grassroots exchanges, youth exchanges, cultural exchanges, and economic exchanges, totaling 58 series of activities. Approximately 7,000 participants from various sectors in Taiwan are expected to attend, covering diverse fields such as people’s livelihoods, industry, youth, culture, and sports. Among these, 12 events are hosted by Xiamen.
Since its inception in 2009, the Straits Forum has weathered 18 years of challenges, always adhering to the core concept that “people on both sides of the strait are one family.” Regardless of changes in the cross-strait situation, the forum has always remained rooted at the grassroots level and close to people’s hearts, becoming the most important non-governmental platform for compatriots on both sides to eliminate estrangement, enhance friendship, and move towards each other. With the continuous acceleration of the construction of the Cross-Strait Integrated Development Demonstration Zone in Fujian, this forum is even more closely aligned with policy dividends, making the achievements of cross-strait integration more tangible, more beneficial, and closer to the lives of grassroots people.
Speeches from High-level Officials Convey Goodwill and Draw a New Blueprint for Cross-Strait Integration
During the speech session of the conference, Wang Huning precisely elaborated on the current tone and future direction of cross-strait relations, with a firm stance, warm language, and a focus on public sentiment.
He stated that the important high-level interactions on cross-strait relations in April this year charted the course and injected momentum into the peaceful development and deepening of exchanges and cooperation across the strait. Both sides of the strait belong to one China and share a common destiny. It is essential to uphold the core belief in the indivisibility of our territory, nation, and civilization, firmly adhere to the “1992 Consensus,” resolutely oppose “Taiwan independence” separatist forces and external interference, and jointly safeguard the common homeland of the Chinese nation.
Chinese mainland continues to uphold the principles of closeness, sincerity, benefit, and tolerance in its approach to Taiwan, fully implementing equal treatment for Taiwanese compatriots and enterprises. It opens its vast market and abundant opportunities, welcoming people from all walks of life in Taiwan, young friends, and small and medium-sized enterprises to seize the opportunities presented by Chinese mainland’s high-quality development, pursue their dreams, and take root. Looking ahead to the “15th Five-Year Plan” development blueprint, Chinese mainland will continue to expand the space for cross-strait cooperation. It hopes that young people on both sides will deepen their recognition of Chinese culture, embody the confidence and self-reliance of the Chinese people, and jointly embark on the new journey of national rejuvenation. Before the opening ceremony, Wang Huning also warmly met with representatives of Taiwanese guests, fully conveying Chinese mainland’s sincerity and goodwill in cherishing non-governmental cross-strait exchanges.
Resonant Voices from Taiwanese Compatriots, Shared Roots and Hearts Safeguard Peace Across the Strait
The deepest emotional tone of this forum lies in the blood ties and heart-to-heart connection between people on both sides of the strait. Chang Jung-kung, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang Party, expressed sincerely in his speech that people who are authentically from Taiwan are also dignified and upright Chinese people. Compatriots on both sides share the same origin, bloodline, and common interests.
He pointed out that peace across the strait is the greatest well-being for people on both sides. He hopes for the continuous expansion of non-governmental exchanges, deepening of industrial integration, and enhancement of livelihood interactions across the strait. He advocated resolving differences through exchanges, creating mutual benefits through cooperation, jointly safeguarding the stability of the Taiwan Strait, and working together to achieve the great cause of national rejuvenation. Subsequently, representatives from various sectors in Taiwan spoke one after another, unanimously agreeing that only through more exchanges, more interactions, and more heart-to-heart communication can cross-strait relations move forward steadily and far.
Diverse and Bright Highlights of Activities, Youth and Grassroots Become the Main Protagonists
The biggest feature of this forum is its focus shifting downward and empowering youth, leaving the stage to the grassroots and opportunities to the youth.
The series of activities focus on grassroots governance, folk beliefs, social welfare, agricultural and fishery cooperation, rural revitalization, and other issues related to people’s livelihoods, promoting normalized interactions between neighboring communities, clan kinship connections, and non-governmental friendship across the strait. At the same time, 15 youth-specific events are specially planned, covering new and trendy formats such as the Cross-Strait Youth Forum, audio-visual creation competitions, new media exchanges, and cross-strait “Village BA” basketball games, providing comprehensive services for Taiwanese youth in internships, employment, entrepreneurship, and rooting themselves on Chinese mainland.
It is worth noting that the proportion of first-time visitors and Taiwanese youth participants in this forum has reached a new high in recent years. The recent popularity of certain TV dramas and the cultural craze for cross-strait family letters have once again resonated with netizens on both sides regarding the common folklore, language, and family traditions of Fujian and Taiwan, proving the shared cultural lineage and enduring family ties across the strait. Many supporting activities of the forum have already been successfully held, with nearly a thousand Taiwanese compatriots crossing the strait to participate, igniting the exchange fervor of this forum ahead of time.
The Direction of Public Sentiment Becomes a Major Trend, Cross-Strait Integration Moves to a New Level
Tides surge on both sides of the strait, following the direction of public sentiment; integrated development is the irresistible trend. The reason the Straits Forum has remained prosperous for so long is that it fundamentally aligns with the mainstream aspirations of people on both sides for peace, development, exchanges, and cooperation. It also highlights the undeniable tide of non-governmental exchanges and the irreversible trend of integrated development.
The warmth of the people, the vitality of the youth, the roots of culture, and the mutual benefits of industry together form the most solid foundation for cross-strait integration. In the future, as the construction of the Cross-Strait Integrated Development Demonstration Zone continues to deepen, it is believed that non-governmental exchanges across the strait will become smoother, cooperation deeper, and bonds closer.
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- SNP builds on Palantir platforms to deliver new AI-powered solutions for solving mission-critical customer challenges
- The partnership will build on SNP’s strong base with more than 3,000 customers globally and 15,000 successful SAP transformation projects
- SNP and Palantir will leverage their strengths to help customers modernize their SAP landscapes and business processes in a predictable and secure way
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 9 July 2026 – SNP SE, a leading provider of software for AI-enabled digital transformation, automated data migration and data management in the SAP environment, and Palantir, a global leader in artificial intelligence and data platforms, today announced a strategic partnership at SNP’s flagship event, Transformation World, in Heidelberg, Germany. The collaboration positions SNP to develop new AI-powered solutions with an aligned approach to accelerate SAP transformations for joint customers.
The two partners will offer solutions for mission-critical challenges across all types of SAP projects, helping customers improve speed, efficiency and quality. The first joint solution, Test Data Proposal, solves a so far highly manual area of SAP migrations, the identification of relevant test data for given customer test cases. By leveraging AI, this process runs automatically and saves customers’ time and resources. Test Data Proposal will expand SNP’s proven Kyano® platform.
As part of the partnership, SNP and Palantir are also collaborating in large-scale moves to SAP Cloud ERP applications where customers seek to accelerate these modernization programs. Both companies combine complementary, category-leading strengths. SNP contributes deep real-world SAP data migration expertise while Palantir provides state-of-the-art AI-driven software platforms, which enable and accelerate secure modernizations for customers.
“Organizations are looking for new ways to increase speed, efficiency, and quality in large-scale SAP transformations,” said Jens Amail, CEO of SNP. “We are hugely excited to collaborate with Palantir, a company that has leveraged AI to revolutionize and accelerate the way enterprises modernize mission-critical systems and automate operations. Together, we will deliver secure outcomes and new solutions to customers and partners.”
“We have seen exceptional momentum accelerating SAP migrations for customers, and helping them do so via the Ontology and AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) in a way that significantly compresses the timeline and delivers operational value along the way,” said Sameer Kirtane, Head of US Commercial at Palantir. “SNP over the last 30 years has built an impressive track record of delivering predictable, compliant and auditable outcomes in thousands of successful engagements. We are proud to partner with SNP to fundamentally rethink how customers transform their SAP landscapes.”
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About SNP
SNP (ticker: SHF.DE) is the global technology platform leader and trusted partner for companies seeking unparalleled data-enabled transformation capabilities and business agility. SNP’s Kyano® platform integrates all necessary capabilities and partner offerings to provide a comprehensive software-based experience in data migration and management. Combined with the Bluefield® approach, Kyano sets a comprehensive industry standard for restructuring and modernizing enterprise data faster and more securely while harnessing AI-driven innovations based on over 30 years of experience.
The company works with more than 3,000 customers of all sizes and in all industries in over 80 countries, including numerous DAX 40 and Fortune 500 companies. The SNP Group has more than 1,600 employees worldwide at over 34 locations in 22 countries. The company is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and generated revenues of around EUR 297 million in the 2025 fiscal year.
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Cambodian secondary school championing environmental practices wins US$15,000 AIA Outstanding Health & Sustainability Award 2026
Now in its fourth year, the competition is a flagship initiative of the AIA Healthiest Schools programme (AHS), which empowers students aged 5 to 16 to embed healthy living into daily life across four key pillars: healthy eating, active living, mental wellbeing and sustainability.
Angchum Lower Secondary School was selected from nearly 1,000 entries across Asia-Pacific, the highest participation level since the programme’s launch, and was announced at a regional ceremony in Bangkok, Thailand.
The AIA Healthiest Schools Competition challenges schools to turn their best health and wellbeing ideas into practical action. By applying what they have learned to real-life issues, students are embedding healthy habits into daily life while creating positive impact within schools and across their wider communities.
Stuart A. Spencer, Head Judge of the AIA Healthiest Schools Competition and AIA Group Chief Marketing Officer, said:
“The AIA Healthiest Schools Competition is the largest programme of its kind in Asia and is helping young people take ownership of their health by turning knowledge into action.
“Congratulations to Angchum Lower Secondary School from Cambodia. Your shining example will inspire countless others across the region, shaping a healthier future for young people all over Asia.”
In his speech at the event, Mr. Lee Yuan Siong, AIA Group Chief Executive and President, said:
“What is most powerful about this programme is that it turns health from something students are taught into something they do every day.”
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About the school:
Angchum Lower Secondary School in Kampot, Cambodia, faced limited staff, plastic-heavy canteen habits, inadequate sanitation facilities for female students, and unreliable access to clean water. Despite these constraints, the teachers, students, and the surrounding community chose to prioritise improvements in daily health and hygiene practices.
Students led the effort through the “Plastic-Free School” campaign, bringing reusable bottles and lunch boxes to reduce waste. Each class formed a Green Youth Club responsible for tree planting, garden care, and maintaining clean classrooms. Regular hygiene awareness sessions supported all students—especially girls—in building healthier daily routines.
Teachers reinforced these actions by integrating lessons on waste segregation, personal hygiene, and environmental protection across subjects. They also modelled positive behaviours by avoiding plastic bags and joining campus clean-up activities.
Quarterly cleanups, contributions of saplings and compost, and assistance in repairing the school’s clean-water system deepened school-community cooperation.
A structured implementation process — teacher preparation, student lessons, community meetings, surveys, and interviews — helped the school track progress and adjust plans. As a result, students now demonstrate strong environmental knowledge, practice sustainable habits, and share a growing sense of responsibility.
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Keeper Security surpasses $225M in ARR with transformative growth and is emerging as the market standard for AI-native identity security
Compelling path to $1billion ARR and public offering, fueled by product market fit in the agentic AI age, explosion of identities and related threats, and accelerating growth
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 9 July 2026 – Keeper Security (“Keeper” or “we”), the identity security platform for humans, machines and AI agents, today announced a major milestone in its journey to become the market standard for AI-native identity security, having reached $225 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Since 2021, Keeper’s ARR has grown over 3x.
Keeper protects over 95,000 organizations, which includes many Fortune 500 enterprises and public sector agencies. The company is quickly emerging as the market standard for AI-native identity security for enterprises globally with its leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security platform. In 2025, leading analyst firm Gartner recognized Keeper as the second-fastest-growing security software competitor globally, second only to Google.* This recognition underscores Keeper’s rapid market expansion in addressing identity security challenges created by cloud transformation and artificial intelligence adoption across enterprise infrastructure and endpoints.
Keeper is now growing at over 4x the industry average.
This market-leading growth is driven by the explosion of identities in the agentic AI age and relentless focus on innovation to protect customers, as evidenced by the release of its unified privileged access management and identity security platform, KeeperPAM®, which protects both human and Non-Human Identities (NHIs), including service accounts, machine identities, databases, AI agents and agentic workloads. Since the launch of KeeperPAM in February 2025, KeeperPAM revenue has exhibited 10x year-over-year growth and Keeper has seen industry-leading new customer growth, adding an average of 850 new organizations every month. In the last fifteen months, Keeper added over 400 innovative features and products to KeeperPAM.
“Identity is the new security perimeter,” said Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-founder of Keeper Security. “As enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents and autonomous systems, the number of privileged identities and machine credentials is growing exponentially. Organizations need a modern, unified platform that secures every identity – human and non-human – and governs every privileged interaction. Our growth reflects the market’s demand for a platform purpose-built to address these challenges.”
Keeper’s cloud-native cybersecurity platform delivers a comprehensive approach to identity security and privileged access management by unifying enterprise password management, secrets management, privileged session management, database management and endpoint privilege management in a single platform. Keeper’s AI-native identity security strategy seamlessly extends these capabilities to non-human identities and agentic AI environments, enabling organizations to discover, manage and secure machine credentials and autonomous workloads with the same rigor applied to human users.
As enterprises adopt AI technologies at scale, the proliferation of non-human identities is rapidly outpacing that of human identities by 150:1, according to reports, thereby creating new attack surfaces and operational complexity. Keeper’s platform helps organizations establish identity-first security strategies that provide security, visibility, governance and least-privilege controls across their entire identity ecosystem.
“Autonomous agents, frontier LLMs and machine-to-machine workflows are operating inside enterprise environments right now – without adequate governance, secrets management or access controls,” said Craig Lurey, CTO and Co-founder of Keeper Security. “Keeper is purpose-built to solve this problem at scale.”
The company’s continued growth and market recognition reinforce its position as one of the cybersecurity industry’s most innovative and fastest-growing providers of AI-native identity security and privileged access management solutions. Keeper’s financial profile combines best-in-class growth, profitability and a debt-free capital structure and is an asset positioned to efficiently lead identity security in the agentic AI age.
“Surpassing $225 million in ARR confirms what we’ve heard in every enterprise conversation – that securing non-human identities is the defining security challenge of the AI era,” said Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security. “We have established an accelerated path to $1 billion in ARR which, coupled with our technology roadmap, will provide optionality for a public offering.”
Source Citation:
Gartner, Market Share Analysis: Security Software, Worldwide, 2025, Rahul Yadav, Deepali, 11 May 2026
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About Keeper Security
Keeper Security is the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security solution, trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations globally. KeeperPAM® is Keeper’s privileged access management platform that unifies password and passkey management, secrets management, privileged session management and endpoint privilege management in a single cloud-native platform, protected with quantum-resistant encryption. KeeperAI delivers real-time, AI-native threat detection across every privileged session. As AI agents proliferate and identity becomes the defining attack surface, Keeper governs access for humans, machines, non-human identities and AI agents, serving as the unified control plane for access, compliance and visibility across the enterprise. For more information, visit
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