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  • Internet sensation ‘Chaiwala’ Arshad Khan confirmed as Pakistani citizen, court told

    Internet sensation ‘Chaiwala’ Arshad Khan confirmed as Pakistani citizen, court told


    RAWALPINDI: Pakistan punished poor catching from South Africa to accumulate 259-5 on the opening day of the second and final Test in Rawalpindi on Monday.


    Had the tourists not dropped five catches on a turning pitch…

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  • Japan's Ishin party joins political establishment it vowed to fight – Reuters

    1. Japan’s Ishin party joins political establishment it vowed to fight  Reuters
    2. Japan to vote for new PM amid political uncertainty: All you need to know  Al Jazeera
    3. Japan’s Ruling Party Forms New Coalition in Win for Takaichi  The Wall Street…

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  • LUMIX Firmware Updates for S5 II, S5 II X, S9, GH7, and G9 II Add DJI RS4 Compatibility, Faster Startup, and New Focus Controls

    LUMIX Firmware Updates for S5 II, S5 II X, S9, GH7, and G9 II Add DJI RS4 Compatibility, Faster Startup, and New Focus Controls

    Panasonic has rolled out new LUMIX firmware updates for several cameras and S Series lenses, improving startup times, adding customizable focus-ring functions, and expanding Bluetooth support for DJI RS 4 gimbals. The updates, available October…

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  • Brain Functions Like Subway Station While Word Processing

    Brain Functions Like Subway Station While Word Processing

    Trains move through the world’s subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and repeated by other trains throughout the day. A new study by a team of New York University psychology and…

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  •  Early MRI Detection in Frontotemporal Dementia

     Early MRI Detection in Frontotemporal Dementia

    A MAJOR international study has shown that new brain imaging techniques can detect early signs of frontotemporal dementia before brain shrinkage or symptoms arise. Researchers found that changes in cortical microstructure, rather than cortical…

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  • Freightos Reports KPIs for Third Quarter of 2025 Exceeding Management Expectations

    Freightos Reports KPIs for Third Quarter of 2025 Exceeding Management Expectations

    The Company Plans To Report Earnings on November 17, 2025

    BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ – Freightos Limited (NASDAQ: CRGO), the leading digital freight booking and payment platform for the international freight industry, today reported preliminary key performance indicators for the third quarter of 2025, highlighting the continued industry adoption of digital solutions to enhance efficiency and resilience in global supply chains.

     


    Actuals*

    Management’s Expectations


    Q3 2025

    Q3 2025




    # Transactions (‘000)

    429

    419 – 425

    Year over Year Growth

    27 %

    24% – 25%

    GBV ($m)

    336

    329 – 333

    Year over Year Growth

    54 %

    51% – 53%

    *Numbers are preliminary and subject to change with the full earnings release

    Platform Expansion and Network Growth

    Freightos continued its robust expansion in Q3 2025, achieving the 23rd consecutive quarter of record transactions and reinforcing the platform’s value as the industry’s digital transformation platform connecting global trade participants.

    • Transactions: 429k Transactions in Q3 2025 representing a 27% year-over-year growth, exceeding management’s expectations. The WebCargo platform, connecting carriers and freight forwarders, continued to lead transactions growth, with the carrier portal component delivering high growth rate.
    • Carrier and Buyer Growth: In Q3 2025, 77 carriers were active on Freightos’ platforms with more than five bookings. Newly active carriers this quarter included both flag-carrier belly-cargo operators and niche cargo specialists, with some added through regional GSAs, reflecting the platform’s expanding reach across global and local networks. With most major airlines already connected to the platform, new airline additions are increasingly regional or niche airlines, with further expansion expected as smaller carriers advance their digital readiness. Meanwhile, unique buyer users reached 20,600. This reflected growth in WebCargo users partially offset by some reduction in SMB North American custom clearance users due to market uncertainty.
    • Gross Booking Value (GBV): Carriers and freight forwarders selling on Freightos’ platform derived $336 million of revenue from the platform in Q3 2025, representing a 54% year-over-year increase. The major contributors to GBV growth were WebCargo and the portal, mirroring growth in transactions highlighted by the relatively high GBV per transaction in the portal component.

    “The powerful network effects of our platform are clearly visible in this quarter’s KPIs,” said Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos. “As the leading digital freight booking platform, Freightos creates a virtuous cycle where each new participant – whether carrier, forwarder, or shipper – enhances the value for all others. Our expanding ecosystem enables unprecedented connectivity and efficiency across the global freight landscape, transforming what was once a fragmented, manual process into a streamlined digital experience. This growing adoption confirms our vision that digitization is becoming the new standard in international freight, supporting more efficient world trade.”

    Q3 2025 Earnings Call

    Financial results for the second quarter 2025 will be reported before markets open on November 17, 2025. Freightos’ management will host a webcast and conference call to discuss the results that morning at 8:30 a.m. EDT.

    Information about Freightos’ financial results, including a link to the live webcast, will be available on Freightos’ investor relations website at https://www.freightos.com/investor-news/.

    To participate in the call, please register at the following link: https://freightos.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A2xWbYIrRz6lnetBZP8_7Q#/registration

    Following registration, you will be sent the link to the conference call which is accessible either via the Zoom app, or alternatively from a dial-in telephone number.

    Questions may be submitted in advance to [email protected] or via Zoom during the call.

    A replay of the webcast, as well as the call’s transcript, will be available on Freightos’ Investor Relations website following the call.

    Glossary

    We have provided below a glossary of certain terms used in this press release:

    • Carriers: Number of unique air and ocean carriers, mostly airlines, that have been sellers of transactions. For airlines, we count booking carriers, which include separate airlines within the same carrier group. We do not count dozens of other airlines that operate individual segments of air cargo transactions, as we do not have a direct booking relationship with them. Carriers include ocean less-than-container load (LCL) consolidators. In addition, we only count carriers when more than five bookings were placed with them over the course of a calendar quarter.
    • Unique buyer users: Number of individual users placing bookings, typically counted based on unique email logins. The number of buyers, which counts unique customer businesses, does not reflect the fact that some buyers are large multinational organizations while others are small or midsize businesses. Therefore, we find it more useful to monitor the number of unique buyer users than the number of buyer businesses.
    • GBV: Total value of transactions on the Freightos platform, which is the monetary value of freight and related services contracted between buyers and sellers on the Freightos platform, plus related fees charged to buyers and sellers, and pass-through payments such as duties. GBV is converted to U.S. dollars at the time of each transaction on the Freightos platform. This metric may be similar to what others call gross merchandise value (GMV) or gross services volume (GSV). We believe that this metric reflects the scale of the Freightos platform and our opportunities to generate platform revenue.
    • Transactions: Number of bookings for freight services, and related services, placed by Buyers across the Freightos platform with third-party sellers and with Clearit. Sellers of Transactions include Carriers (that is, airlines, ocean liners and LCL consolidators) and also other providers of freight services such as trucking companies, freight forwarders, general sales agents, and air master loaders. The number of transactions booked on the Freightos platform in any given time period is net of transactions that were canceled prior to the end of the period. Transactions booked on white label portals hosted by Freightos are included if there is a transactional fee associated with them.

    About Freightos

    Freightos® (Nasdaq: CRGO) is the leading vendor-neutral global freight booking platform. Airlines, ocean carriers, thousands of freight forwarders, and well over ten thousand importers and exporters connect on Freightos, making world trade efficient,  agile, and resilient.

    The Freightos platform digitizes the trillion dollar international freight industry, supported by a suite of software solutions that span pricing, quoting, booking, shipment management, and payments for businesses of all shapes and sizes around the globe. Products include Freightos Enterprise for multinational importers and exporters, Freightos Marketplace for small importers and exporters, WebCargo and 7LFreight by WebCargo for freight forwarders, WebCargo for Airlines, and Clearit, a digital customs broker.

    Freightos is a leading provider of real-time industry data via Freightos Terminal, which includes the world’s leading spot pricing indexes, Freightos Air Index (FAX) for air cargo and Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) for container shipping. Futures of FBX are traded on CME and SGX.

    More information is available at freightos.com/investors.

    Contacts

    Media:
    Tali Aronsky
    [email protected]

    Investors:
    Anat Earon-Heilborn
    [email protected]

    Logo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2319256/4496202/Freightos_Logo.jpg 

    SOURCE Freightos

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  • Oasis, Benedict Cumberbatch Films Interview With Dylan Southern: LFF

    Oasis, Benedict Cumberbatch Films Interview With Dylan Southern: LFF

    Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers, writer-director Dylan Southern’s big-screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which just screened at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film…

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  • How often are stars flung out of the center of the Galaxy? – Sciworthy

    How often are stars flung out of the center of the Galaxy? – Sciworthy

    The Earth, Moon, and Sun form a stable 3-body system, but there is no simple equation one can apply to 3-body systems to predict their orbits. This 3-body problem becomes increasingly complicated as more objects are added to the system…

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  • Asus Targets Creators With First-Ever 8K HDR Mini-LED Display – extremetech.com

    1. Asus Targets Creators With First-Ever 8K HDR Mini-LED Display  extremetech.com
    2. ASUS Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX  ASUS Pressroom
    3. ASUS Introduces ProArt PA32KCX; World’s First 8K HDR Mini LED Monitor For…

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  • Viet Nam’s labour statistics: From modernization to global alignment

    Viet Nam’s labour statistics: From modernization to global alignment

    Over the past decade and a half, Viet Nam has transformed the way it measures and understands work. From simple employment counts to a comprehensive, internationally comparable system, labour statistics in Viet Nam have become a cornerstone for evidence-based and gender responsive policymaking and sustainable development.

    A decade of transformation and international alignment

    The early 2010s marked a turning point for Viet Nam’s statistical system. Recognizing the growing complexity of the labour market in a rapidly developing economy, the National Statistics Office (NSO) embarked on a far-reaching modernization process.

    The introduction of the Labour Force Survey on a quarterly basis in 2011 was a major milestone. For the first time, Viet Nam could monitor employment trends, unemployment, and labour underutilization in near real time. This shift from annual to quarterly data collection not only improved accuracy but also enhanced the government’s ability to respond to economic shifts and social challenges.

    Viet Nam’s commitment to aligning its data with global standards quickly positioned it as a country with advanced labour statistics. The NSO worked closely with ASEAN partners, the ILO, and international experts to harmonize definitions, methodologies, and indicators. 2025 also marks the fifth year applying 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians standards advancing Viet Nam’s labour statistics – a move that redefined how employment, work, and labour underutilization were measured worldwide. The adoption of internationally comparable labour market indicators allowed Viet Nam to contribute actively to global databases and to monitor progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 8 on decent work and economic growth.

    This progress has made Viet Nam one of the few developing countries in Asia capable of producing timely, high-quality and gender responsive labour statistics that meet global comparability standards – an achievement widely recognized by international partners.

    Data responding to quick changes in the labour market

    The true value of a robust statistical system often becomes clear in times of uncertainty. When the pandemic struck in 2020, Viet Nam’s quarterly LFS and well-trained statistical network proved essential. Within months, the NSO was able to produce special reports capturing the pandemic’s impact on jobs, income, and informal employment – data that guided targeted government interventions and social support measures.

    Among the most important advances – and clear examples of how labour statistics in Viet Nam have kept pace with a rapidly changing labour market – are the explicit measurement and reporting of informal employment and the pilot measurement of digital platform work. Recognizing that more people are doing work mediated by digital platforms – whether ride-hailing, delivery, freelancing, or online provision of services – Viet Nam has begun exploring how to capture this in its labour statistics. This pilot work positions Viet Nam as one of the first countries in Asia to take early steps in capturing the platform economy in official labour data.

    This proactive approach shows that Viet Nam’s statistical system is not only robust, but also responsive and forward-looking, ensuring that data remain relevant and timely in reflecting the evolving world of work.

    Digital transformation and innovation

    In recent years, Viet Nam has continued to push forward with digital transformation in data collection and analysis. The NSO has introduced computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), expanded the use of administrative data, connecting with other databases. The NSO also starts to introduce artificial intelligence to some stages of data management. Noticeably, artificial intelligence has been applied to data cleaning and automatic classification of data. These innovations improve not only the quality of data but also the efficiency of the whole statistical system responding timely to the rise of the digital age. 

    Felix Weidenkaff, Officer-In-Charge of the ILO Viet Nam participates in the Commemorative Ceremony and High-Level Forum in Viet Nam for World Statistics Day

    Looking ahead

    As Viet Nam moves toward a digital and knowledge-driven economy, the demand for high-quality, timely, and disaggregated labour data will continue to grow. The NSO’s ongoing efforts to modernize surveys, apply artificial intelligence in data processing, and enhance data integration are laying the groundwork for the next generation of labour statistics.

    The success of Viet Nam’s labour statistics rests on strong partnerships with national and international organizations. Together, these partners have worked to strengthen the technical capacity of national statisticians, improve data dissemination, and promote the use of statistics for informed decision-making. Viet Nam has also become an active contributor to regional and global discussions on labour measurement, sharing experiences that inspire neighbouring countries.

    On this World Statistics Day, Viet Nam’s achievements remind us that statistics are not just numbers – they are a foundation for understanding people’s lives, shaping fairer policies, and building a more inclusive future. As the world marks this day under the global theme of Driving Change with Quality Statistics and Data for Everyone, Viet Nam’s progress in labour statistics stands as a vivid example of that vision in action – ensuring that every number tells a story, and every story helps build a stronger nation.

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