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Shanghai – – October 18, 2026 -- The second edition of The Magic of Tomorrowland in China sold out two nights at Hero Dome, with Axwell headlining day one and Tiësto closing day two.

The festival ran in INS SEA, a newly developed waterfront destination in Shanghai's western Huangpu district. Tomorrowland staged it with Hero Esports, INS LAND and Budweiser, turning the purpose-built indoor venue into a two-day electronic music event for thousands of visitors.

An 88-metre stage and 72 moving ceiling screens surrounded the crowd

The scenography was built entirely locally. Organisers say the production followed local safety requirements and included sustainability in its planning.

According to the organisers, the mainstage numbers included:

Hong Kong – October 16, 2026 -- Coffee drinkers in Hong Kong can now order a Buffalo Milk Latte, hot or iced, at all five local Lavazza stores, and a Liquid Tiramisu drink is on the way. Lavazza says it is the first chain coffee brand in the city to serve buffalo milk drinks.

Five stores in under a year, around 10 planned

Lavazza opened its first Hong Kong store in Central last November. It has since grown to five locations, mostly in premium office towers and shopping destinations in Central and Causeway Bay. The company plans to double that to around 10 stores in the coming months.

The newest store, at Cheung Kong Center II, features an installation of the Lavazza Carmencita moka pot. Italian designer Marco Zanuso created the pot for Lavazza in 1979, and it is known for its conical shape and heat-resistant handle.

Shanghai – October 15, 2026 -- Twenty gaming monitors from Lenovo's Legion line and HKC's ANTGAMER brand are among the first to earn TÜV Rheinland's new Native Gaming Performance Certification, which rates displays from three to five stars.

The standard was officially launched at the 23rd China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (ChinaJoy) in July 2026. It targets a familiar problem: higher refresh rates and shorter advertised response times do not necessarily mean clearer, more stable visuals, especially when those specs rely on overclocking, undisclosed reductions in display quality or compromises in stability.

Overclocked refresh rates are excluded from certification

The framework defines three refresh-rate operating modes: native, overclocked and dual-mode. It applies a "same mode, full-system testing" principle, and refresh-rate overclocking is excluded from certification.

Harare – October 15, 2026 -- Visitors in Zimbabwe's capital can now see evidence of some of the world's earliest rice cultivation, along with hands-on tea, pottery and puzzle activities, at an exhibition on China's Shangshan culture that opened on October 12.

Titled "DAWN-LIT RICE SOURCE GLOWING MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS," the show is part of Jinhua's 2026 "Into Africa" cultural tourism initiative. It uses rice and pottery as central themes to foster cultural dialogue between China and Africa. The Jinhua Municipal People's Government hosts the event, and the Jinhua Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism organized it.

Zimbabwe's Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Tsitsi Gezi, and Tang Xiaoping, Minister-Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe, attended the opening ceremony.

Los Angeles – – October 14, 2026 -- Chinese author Xuemo's novel Eternal Love, available in English on Amazon, has won a 2026 NYC Big Book Award and reached No. 1 on an Amazon psychological literary fiction bestseller chart, according to its publisher, Ruxue International Media Inc.

The novel follows love, loss and self-discovery

Eternal Love is literary fiction about love, loss and personal transformation. It invites readers to look for love within themselves rather than from others, and to change not necessarily their circumstances but how they respond to them. Ted Olczak, president of the NYC Big Book Award, called it "a work of raw emotion and profound insight."

Beijing – October 13, 2026 -- A new documentary, From Barren Land to Prosperity: Fujian-Ningxia Partnership, premiered on China Media Group's CCTV-4 channel on October 5. It looks at how one of China's poorest regions changed over three decades.

Xihaigu went from "unsuitable for habitation" to a development model

The United Nations once labelled Xihaigu, at the southern tip of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, one of the least suitable places on the planet for human habitation. Chronic drought and barren soil kept residents in severe poverty. Today the area is described as a model of socio-economic progress and environmental rejuvenation.

Hangzhou – October 11, 2026 -- Rihanna's golden embroidered dragon robe from the 2015 Met Gala is on public display in China until August 31, 2027, as part of a Guo Pei retrospective at the China National Silk Museum.

"Garden of Ethereal Realms: Guo Pei Costume Art Exhibition" opened on September 27, 2026, in the museum's Fashion Gallery. It covers four decades of work by Guo Pei, a leading figure in Chinese contemporary haute couture, and shows how her career has developed.

About 200 couture pieces fill four sections

The show presents approximately 200 haute couture works, organized into four sections and nine representative series. The sections are titled "Time, Fable, Rebirth," "Building Dreams, Legend," "Dream Isle Garden," and "Eastern Palace Echoes."

Chengdu – October 10, 2026 -- Climbing brand KAILAS has launched "Stay Warm, Stay Together," a campaign built around its GT Glacier Traverse Series, a line of snow-mountain gear that uses goose down with a fill power of up to 1,000.

Selected GT Glacier Traverse styles pair 1,000-fill down with ultralight fabric

The series is designed for snow-mountain climbing and balances warmth, protection and lightweight performance. Selected styles combine goose down rated up to 1,000 fill power with ZERO-Gravity Ultralight Fabric. KAILAS says the pairing delivers an exceptional warmth-to-weight ratio, keeping climbers warm while cutting unnecessary weight.

KAILAS describes itself as one of the world's three full-category climbing brands. It makes high-altitude down jackets, technical shells and climbing hardware, all tested and refined in real mountain environments.

Shanghai – October 03, 2026 -- Assembly character toy brand Blokees showcased nearly 500 products at Wonder Festival Shanghai 2026, held October 3 to 4, with more than 90 new items making their debut across its two main product lines, Blokees Model Kits and BLOKEES WHEELS.

Model kits span more than 10 global IPs, including Transformers and DC

The Blokees Model Kits lineup covers hero figures, model kits, animal-themed pieces and fashion-style products, drawing on franchises such as ULTRAMAN, TRANSFORMERS, Saint Seiya, Evangelion and DC. Aimed at collectors aged 16 and up, nearly 40 products were displayed across the Champion, Champion Lite, Fantastic and Legend series, with more than 20 of those being new releases. DC appeared commercially in the Legend series for the first time.

Shenzhen – – October 01, 2026 -- Huawei has launched its HUAWEI Mate 90 Series, with prices starting at CNY5,999 (roughly $840) for the base model and climbing to CNY12,999 (about $1,820) for the RS ULTIMATE DESIGN variant.

The flagship Tau chip powers the entire lineup for the first time.

The Mate 90 Pro Max runs on the new LogicFolding Tau Chip, which Huawei says enables 5 million signal transmission bonds and 125 TB/s of inter-die bandwidth. The Pro Max Premium Edition and RS ULTIMATE DESIGN use the Kirin 9050 Pro, delivering a 31% performance jump over prior chips, while the Pro model's Kirin 9035 adds a 20% boost and the standard edition's Kirin 9030 gains 27%.

Richard Yu, Chairman of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, said the series marks "a comprehensive evolution in design, performance, imaging, reliability, and smart user experience" through tight integration of hardware, software, chips, and cloud.