Bigwave Robotics is a South Korean tech company founded in 2020 and based in Seoul that operates Marosol, a platform where businesses can rent robots for their needs and which the company calls “the nation’s most extensive robot database.” The platform uses AI to help companies find the right robots for their work by matching them with robot suppliers. Bigwave Robotics also built SOLlink, a tool that lets businesses control different brands of robots all in one industrial or work setting.
Listed on the footer of Japan’s Chinese-language Chubun (中文導報) as the copyright holder, Chubun Sangyo Co., Ltd. (中文产业株式会社) is the publisher of what China’s Baidu Baike describes as Japan’s “comprehensive Chinese-language weekly newspaper.” The company has published Chubun since its September 1992 founding, distributing 80,000 copies weekly across four sections. A 2005 speech by the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, published in CNHubei, describes Chubun Sangyo as “Japan’s largest comprehensive Chinese enterprise promoting Sino-Japanese exchange” and a “cross-media group” operating multiple outlets including Chubun, “Lele China” (乐乐中国) television station, Japanese magazine CHAi, and the “Kentoshi” (遣唐使) website. However, the company also describes itself as a logistics firm delivering “necessary goods to necessary places at necessary times” with “low prices, high quality, and short delivery times,” creating an unusual structure where a supply chain operation owns a prominent Chinese-language media outlet.
Founded in 2005, Yanolja is a global travel technology company that provides cloud-based software and operates a distribution platform connecting hotels, airlines, and car rentals with sales channels worldwide. The company says that it uses artificial intelligence and data-driven solutions to help travelers with their booking plans.
Formosa Plastics Group (台塑企業), also known as FPG, is a Taiwan-based industrial conglomerate founded in 1954 by brothers Wang Yung-ching (王永慶) and Wang Yung-tsai (王永在) in Kaohsiung. According to the group’s corporate introduction, it began as the world’s smallest polyvinyl chloride (PVC) factory, with a daily production capacity of four tons, and expanded over seven decades into a conglomerate of more than 100 companies. Core subsidiaries include Formosa Plastics Corp. (台灣塑膠公司), Nan Ya Plastics Corp. (南亞塑膠公司), Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp. (台灣化學纖維公司), Formosa Petrochemical Corp. (台塑石化公司), and Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp. (台塑河靜鋼鐵公司). The group maintains production operations in Taiwan, the United States, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. It also operates a network of healthcare and education institutions, including Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (長庚紀念醫院), founded in 1976, Ming Chi University of Technology (明志科技大學), founded in December 1963, and Chang Gung University (長庚大學). FPG is the parent company of Yung Tsai Investment Co., Ltd. (永在投資股份有限公司), which acquired Gala Television in 2014.
Eastern Group (東森集團) is a Taipei-based conglomerate founded in 1975 as Far Eastern Silo Co., Ltd., initially operating grain storage and port facilities at the ports of Kaohsiung and Taichung. The group entered the media industry in 1991 by establishing what became Eastern Broadcasting Co., Ltd., and has since expanded into e-commerce, digital media, beauty and wellness, insurance, and logistics. Its principal subsidiaries include Eastern Media International Corporation, the home shopping channel ETMall, and the digital news platform ETtoday. The group describes its operational approach as “vertically integrated, omni-channel, and diversified,” combining big data analytics, social networking, and precision marketing. As of 2026, Eastern Group is chaired by Wang Ling-lin (王令麟).
Longyi Group Australia (澳洲龍一集團), registered formally as Australia Longyi Group Pty Ltd with Australian company number ACN 168256666, is a Melbourne-based investment and media company focused on facilitating bilateral investment between Australia and China. The group owns Finance Vision Australia (財視澳洲), the Chinese-language media outlet, and maintains branch operations in Shanghai, China, through two subsidiaries: Shanghai Longyi Advertising Co. Ltd (上海龍一廣告有限公司) and Shanghai Longyi Immigration and Visa Services Co. Ltd (上海龍一出入境服務有限公司). The group’s website is longyigroup.cn, a Chinese domestic domain, and Finance Vision Australia’s website carries a Shanghai-based Chinese internet content provider registration number — both suggesting the group’s operational center of gravity lies in mainland China despite its Australian incorporation.
Trung Nguyen Legend Coffee Group (中原傳奇咖啡集團), formally registered as Trung Nguyen Legend Corporation, is a Vietnamese privately held coffee company headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. According to the company’s own milestones page, it was founded on June 16, 1996, by Dang Le Nguyen Vu in Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam’s main coffee-producing city. Multiple industry sources identify Le Hoang Diep Thao as co-founder and co-owner of the group, serving as its executive officer from 1998 to the end of 2014, though her role is largely absent from the company’s own official history. A protracted divorce and asset dispute between the two founders was resolved by Vietnam’s Supreme People’s Court in 2021, awarding Vu approximately 59 percent of combined assets and management rights over the group. The company operates coffee retail chains and a World Coffee Museum in Buon Ma Thuot, and opened its first overseas flagship in Shanghai in 2022. The company’s website presents an unusually messianic corporate philosophy — describing its mission as building “unified humanity” through an “enlightened lifestyle” — language that reflects the chairman’s well-documented turn toward spiritual and philosophical preoccupations following extended meditation retreats beginning in 2013, and which should be read with corresponding skepticism.
Negocios Publicitarios Internacionales S.A. (NEPISA) is a Nicaraguan joint-stock company that formally operates Canal 6 (第六頻道) on behalf of the Ortega government. Although Canal 6 is presented publicly as a state channel, a 2022 investigation by the independent outlet Confidencial found that NEPISA is controlled by two close associates of the presidential family: lawyer José María Enríquez Moncada and Eduardo Germán Morales Cuadra, both of whom appear across a broader network of companies linked to the Ortega-Murillo family. The Nicaraguan presidency has never publicly explained Canal 6’s relationship with NEPISA, though an executive decree has placed the channel under presidential responsibility since 2012. NEPISA is part of a wider pattern of ostensibly private companies used to manage state media assets within Nicaragua’s consolidated, family-controlled media system.
Xiamen Yijia Investment Co., Ltd. is a private limited liability company founded on November 21, 2019. According to Chinese corporate registry data, the firm operates in real estate leasing, property management, and cross-sector investment. Its portfolio spans digital content and data services, brand management, advertising, e-commerce, entertainment, and cultural media, held through subsidiaries including Yijia (Xiamen) Digital Culture Co., Ltd. (譯迦（廈門）數字文化有限公司) at 51 percent and Xiamen Xingtu Shidai Culture Media Co., Ltd. (廈門市星途時代文化傳媒有限公司), an entertainment-sector firm, at 50 percent.
