Archive: February 28, 2026

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Carlsberg and its long standing partner, Liverpool FC (LFC), is taking a significant step to ensure the electric atmosphere of Anfield Stadium is accessible to every supporter. 

Recognising too many fans have been left on the sidelines of the match day experience, Carlsberg worked with LFC and the British Deaf Association (BDA) to teach fans at Anfield to perform a rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in British Sign Language (BSL). This initiative turns the iconic anthem into a truly inclusive experience during the West Ham game on 28^th February, recognised as the Club’s official ‘Red Together’ match, celebrating the Club’s commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Research from Carlsberg highlights a significant inclusion gap in football, as 81% of Deaf and hard of hearing fans wish to participate in matchday chants but feel unable to do so. This lack of accessibility leads to a sense of isolation, with 74% of those affected feeling disconnected from the stadium atmosphere.

By missing out on the roar of the crowd and collective singing, these individuals are frequently deprived of the camaraderie and emotional highs defining the live sporting experience.

95% of Deaf and hard of hearing fans admit feeling excluded in pubs and fan zones, deterring them from attending live sports, so the need for change is clear. Carlsberg is committed to bringing more access to more of the best in football long after the final whistle on 28^th February.

Carlsberg and LFC are guaranteeing BSL interpreters at every men’s and women’s home match after the West Ham game. Dubbed ‘Fan Interpreters’ they will sign pre-match commentary and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” with hopes to expand their role further next season, ensuring Deaf and hard of hearing fans don’t miss out on these key elements of the game. 

To combat the exclusion Deaf and hard of hearing fans face during game day, Carlsberg is also training LFC bar staff in basic sign language and providing sign language training to staff in LFC fan bars and pubs across the world, including select pub team members at 16 Greene King Sport pubs across Merseyside.

This work champions Carlsberg’s core principle that football’s power lies in its collective passion. “One of the best parts of football is the shared roar and raw emotion, the spontaneous explosion of joy. It creates a feeling of belonging that unites millions,” said Lynsey Woods, Global Brand Director at Carlsberg.

“However, this is only truly collective when everyone has access to it. As a proud partner of Liverpool FC for over 30 years, we’ve been working together to make sure fans have the best experiences-  helping to remove the barriers for those who miss out. By introducing sign language into the heart of Anfield, we are not just teaching signs; we are signing our commitment to a more inclusive, accessible game for everyone who bleeds Red.” 

Rishi Jain, Director of Impact at Liverpool FC, added: “Together with Carlsberg, we’re proud to deliver an initiative that truly lives up to everything that ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ means.

“By teaching fans at Anfield to sign the anthem in British Sign Language, we’re giving something back to our Deaf and hard of hearing supporters, ensuring they feel more included in the matchday experience.

“This long-term commitment to BSL interpreters and wider supporter inclusion sits at the heart of our ongoing ‘Red Together’ strategy to make both our club accessible and inclusive to all, and its launch during our dedicated 2025/26 Red Together match makes it especially meaningful.”

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March. 1 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Carlsberg and its long standing partner, Liverpool FC (LFC), is taking a significant step to ensure the electric atmosphere of Anfield Stadium is accessible to every supporter. 

Recognising too many fans have been left on the sidelines of the match day experience, Carlsberg worked with Liverpool FC and the British Deaf Association (BDA) to teach fans at Anfield to perform a rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in British Sign Language (BSL). This initiative will turn the iconic anthem into a truly inclusive experience during the West Ham game on 28^th February, which is also recognised as the Club’s official ‘Red Together’ match, celebrating the Club’s commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Research from Carlsberg highlights a significant inclusion gap in football, as 93% of Deaf and hard of hearing fans in India wish to participate in matchday chants but feel unable to do so. This lack of accessibility leads to a sense of isolation, with 85% of those affected feeling disconnected from the stadium atmosphere.

By missing out on the roar of the crowd and collective singing, these individuals are frequently deprived of the camaraderie and emotional highs that define the live sporting experience.

With 98% of Deaf and hard of hearing fans in India admitting that feeling excluded in pubs and fan zones has deterred them from attending live sports, the need for change is clear. Carlsberg is committed to bring more access to more of the best in football long after the final whistle on February 28th, 2026.

Carlsberg and LFC are establishing a new normal by guaranteeing BSL translators for fans at every men’s and women’s home match after the West Ham game. Dubbed “Fan Interpreters” they will sign pre-match commentary and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” with hopes to expand their role further next season, ensuring Deaf and hard of hearing fans don’t miss out on these key elements of the game. 

To combat the exclusion that 97% of Deaf and hard of hearing fans in India face during the whole of game day – not just during the match itself – Carlsberg is also committing to train LFC bar staff in basic sign-language and providing sign language training to staff in LFC fan bars and pubs, including a number of Greene King pubs in the UK.

This work champions Carlsberg’s core principle that football’s power lies in its collective passion. “One of the best parts of football is the shared roar and raw emotion, the spontaneous explosion of joy. It creates a feeling of belonging that unites millions,” said Lynsey Woods, Global Brand Director at Carlsberg.

“However, the roar is only truly collective when everyone has access to it. As a proud partner of Liverpool FC for over 30 years, we’ve been working together to make sure fans have the best experiences. That means helping to remove the barriers for those who miss out. By introducing sign language into the heart of Anfield, we are not just teaching signs; we are signing our commitment to a more inclusive, accessible game for everyone who bleeds Red.” 

This sentiment was echoed by Rishi Jain, Director of Impact at Liverpool FC, who added: “Together with Carlsberg, we’re proud to deliver an initiative that truly lives up to everything that ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ means.

“By teaching fans at Anfield how to sign the anthem in British Sign Language, we wanted to give something back to our Deaf and hard of hearing supporters and with the campaigns aim of ensuring that they feel more included in the matchday experience.

“This long-term commitment to BSL translators and wider supporter inclusion sits at the heart of our ongoing ‘Red Together’ strategy to make both our club accessible and inclusive to all, and its launch during our dedicated 2025/26 Red Together match makes it especially meaningful.”

This groundbreaking initiative is Carlsberg’s powerful commitment to giving all fans more access to more of the best of football, moving beyond the pitch to build a genuinely inclusive global fan culture.

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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At MWC Barcelona 2026, Huawei debuts its latest SuperPoD product Atlas 950 SuperPoD,TaiShan 950 SuperPoD and a series of computing solutions to the global market. This embodies the company’s latest endeavor to open source and open collaboration with the aim of building a resilient computing foundation and creating a new option worldwide.

Tech innovation builds a resilient computing foundation

With AI technologies evolving rapidly and models now using trillions of parameters, agentic AI is beginning to penetrate into core production processes in many industries. This is driving up demand for larger computing scale and lower latency. However, these massive models are beyond the reach of conventional horizontal scaling; larger clusters often suffer from lower utilization and frequent training interruptions.

Huawei has tacked these challenges with its innovative UnifiedBus interconnect for SuperPoDs. The groundbreaking “cluster + SuperPoD” system architecture is tailormade for growing computing demands and driving AI progress. At MWC, Huawei debuted its latest SuperPoD offerings on a global arena, including the Atlas 950 SuperPoD and Atlas 850E. Built on UnifiedBus, these products are fit for a diverse range of AI training and inference scenarios. The Atlas 950 SuperPoD, for instance, connects up to 8,192 NPUs via UnifiedBus, delivering ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and unified memory addressing. It operates as a single, logical computer for learning, reasoning, and processing.

Huawei also exhibits TaiShan 950 SuperPoD—the industry’s very first general-purpose computing SuperPoD—alongside next-generation servers like the TaiShan 500 and TaiShan 200. These provide flexible computing options for computing workloads on a scale of high to low intensity.

Open source and open collaboration foster a symbiotic ecosystem

Huawei continues to champion open source and open systems in vision of accelerating developer innovation and ecosystem prosperity. The company plays a pivotal role in advancing openEuler, which has rapidly risen as one of the world’s leading open source operating system communities. Huawei has fully open-sourced its CANN heterogeneous compute architecture. Through layered decoupling, all software components—from operator libraries, acceleration libraries, and graph computing to programming languages—are openly available for developers. CANN also supports open source communities and projects typified by Triton, TileLang, PyTorch, vLLM, and verl, which tangibly facilitates developers in terms of accessibility and efficiency.

As intelligence transforms industries, Huawei remains dedicated to building a resilient computing foundation and a symbiotic ecosystem to create a new option for the AI era.

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BEIJING, Feb. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — More than 30 fine Dehua white porcelain pieces debuted at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Feb. 24, highlighting the contemporary vitality of traditional Chinese craftsmanship.

The exhibits blending traditional aesthetics with contemporary design drew UN officials, diplomats in Geneva and representatives from China and Switzerland, showcasing the unique charm of Chinese ceramic culture.

During a symposium on global governance and high-quality enterprise development, Dehua County in southeast China’s Fujian Province held a promotion event for “Blanc de Chine • Porcelain from Dehua”, marking its efforts to align cultural heritage with global development and advance high-quality industrial growth.

Meanwhile, a promotion center for “Blanc de Chine • Porcelain from Dehua” was also inaugurated. Fang Junqin, Party Chief of Dehua County, said the launch of the center marks a key step for Dehua ceramics to further expand into the European market.

With a ceramic industry cluster exceeding 76 billion yuan and products exported to more than 190 countries and regions, Dehua has grown into a key production and innovation hub. The county has established a full industrial chain spanning design, manufacturing and marketing, supported by advanced technologies such as AI-assisted design and 3D printing.

Dehua has also strengthened global brand building and intellectual property protection, with its experience recognized by the World Intellectual Property Organization as a model case in copyright protection.

At the promotion event, Fang outlined three visions for international cooperation: building a global creative workshop for designers, fostering long-term exchanges with museums and cultural institutions, and expanding mutually beneficial trade partnerships.

As Dehua advances toward the goal of building a 100-billion-yuan industrial cluster, it will continue to take culture as its soul, industry as its foundation and cooperation as its bridge, making the gentle hue of “Blanc de Chine” a bond connecting the world and bringing its exquisite ceramics to more international consumers, according to Fang.

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Ahead of China’s annual key political meetings – the Two Sessions, CGTN published an article elaborating how China’s whole-process people’s democracy works at the grassroots level and how it safeguards the rights and interests of the people. Through a comprehensive introduction of China’s democratic practice, the article stresses that this approach fosters broad and continuous participation, ensuring that governance decisions reflect the collective will and evolving needs of society.

BEIJING, Feb. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A legislative outreach office in Shanghai’s Changning District, established in 2015 in the Hongqiao Subdistrict by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), has become a landmark in China’s democratic progress.

Residents can offer suggestions and feedback on legislative work close to home. Through this office, the opinions of local residents gathered by legislators were relayed to higher levels and taken into consideration during the legislation process.

The Shanghai neighborhood has come to epitomize the country’s whole-process people’s democracy following a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping in November 2019, when he coined the term for the first time.

As of 2025, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee had established 54 such outreach offices across the country, and there were more than 7,800 such offices established by provincial or municipal legislatures. These platforms have served as vital bridges between residents and lawmakers, ensuring that democratic participation is embedded in the legislative process.

While Western democracies often equate democracy with elections, China’s whole-process people’s democracy ensures public participation throughout the entire process of governance, covering all aspects of the democratic process and all sectors of society. This approach fosters broad and continuous participation, ensuring that governance decisions reflect the collective will and evolving needs of society.

Extensive participation

China’s whole-process people’s democracy integrates democratic practices across all government levels and at every stage of policymaking – from election and consultation to decision-making, implementation and oversight.

It is embodied in the Two Sessions – the annual meetings of China’s top legislature, the NPC and the top political advisory body, the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Thousands of NPC deputies and CPPCC National Committee members convene in Beijing to deliberate on and discuss major policies and governance matters, representing a broad cross-section of society.

Over the years, innovation and creativity in grassroots democracy across urban and rural areas nationwide have become more dynamic than ever, unleashing great vitality at the grassroots level. From “courtyard meeting halls” and “bench meetings” to offline “roundtable meetings” and online “deliberation groups,” these pragmatic democratic practices based on local characteristics have provided sustained momentum for the development of China’s democracy.

In 2025, various departments of the State Council handled a total of 8,754 suggestions from NPC deputies and 4,868 proposals from CPPCC National Committee members, accounting for 95.6 percent and 97.3 percent of the total number of suggestions and proposals, respectively, according to a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on Friday. In particular, these departments adopted more than 4,900 suggestions and proposals from deputies and members, and issued more than 2,200 related policies and measures.

Pooling wisdom for 15th Five-Year Plan

The drafting of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) for economic and social development provides another vivid example. Deliberations on the draft outline are among the most closely watched items on the agenda of this year’s Two Sessions.

On Friday, a key leadership meeting was held to discuss a draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan and a draft government work report to be submitted by the State Council to the upcoming annual session of the national legislature for review.

Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan has been a process of practicing whole-process people’s democracy. From May 20 to June 20 last year, China launched an online public consultation to gather opinions for its next five-year plan. The initiative drew over 3.11 million valid submissions, yielding more than 1,500 constructive suggestions across 27 topics.

A summary of these findings was reviewed by Xi and submitted to the Party leadership, ensuring that citizens’ voices were heard at the highest level. By September, a total of 2,112 suggestions had been collected from various regions, departments and sectors, resulting in 218 revisions to the document.

This broad-based participation demonstrates that national development strategies are rooted in public will, gathering strong momentum for Chinese modernization.

“This whole-process people’s democracy China is carrying out aligns with the goal of putting the people at the center. It enables them to decide and feel that they are the protagonists of the historical process that is taking place in China and the beneficiaries of the transformations that are happening,” said Argentine sociologist Marcelo Rodriguez, director of the Hector P. Agosti Center for Marxist Studies and Training.

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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, Feb. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — KuCoin has been ranked among the top three cryptocurrency exchanges by total token listings in the Animoca Brands Research’s 2025 Listing Report, reflecting continued activity in primary-market listings.

According to the report, KuCoin recorded a 31% year-over-year increase in token listings in 2025. The report highlights the exchange’s strong participation in primary token listings, indicating sustained engagement in early-stage project onboarding.

The data also shows that KuCoin maintains a measurable presence across the $30M–$500M+ fully diluted valuation (FDV) range. The report notes that top-tier exchanges account for approximately 25% of listings within the $500M+ FDV category, suggesting increasing selectivity in higher-capitalization segments.

Liquidity trends in the report point to a broader market shift. Projects with FDV above $100M recorded first-day trading volumes between 1.44x and 1.78x the 2024 average. On a 30-day basis, the $100M–$500M FDV segment posted the fastest growth, reaching 2.12x the prior-year average.

In addition, KuCoin ranked fifth in tokenized gold trading volume, reflecting participation in the growing real-world asset (RWA) sector, particularly in on-chain representations of traditional defensive assets.

The report suggests that exchange competition in 2025 is increasingly shaped by listing composition, liquidity distribution, and asset structure diversification rather than listing volume alone. Learn more in the full report.

About KuCoin

Founded in 2017, KuCoin is a leading global crypto platform trusted by over 40 million users across 200+ countries and regions. The platform delivers innovative and compliant digital asset services, offering access to 1,000+ listed tokens, spot and futures trading, institutional wealth management, and a Web3 wallet.

Recognized by Forbes and Hurun, KuCoin holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 certifications, underscoring its commitment to top-tier security. With AUSTRAC registration in Australia and a MiCA license in Austria, KuCoin continues expanding its regulated footprint under CEO BC Wong, building a reliable and trusted digital-asset ecosystem.

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