SingHaiyi and Japan's Nakano Singapore to raise the bar for design and quality in Jurong Lake District at upcoming launch

SINGAPORE, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SingHaiyi is poised to deliver yet another quality lifestyle residential concept at the Jurong Lake District as it partners Nakano Singapore (Nakano), a contractor renowned for delivering quality projects in Singapore for nearly 50 years, for Sora. Nestled within the Jurong Lake District, the largest mixed-use business district outside the city centre, Sora promises to be a luxurious development offering tranquillity, convenience and comfort at a high quality.

"Aligned with the Jurong Lake District's transformation to become an integrated hub for live-work-play-learn, our aim is for Sora to offer its owners a premium lifestyle with a fine balance between nature and recreation. SingHaiyi's commitment to homeowners transcends design and lifestyle to quality and peace of mind. Hence, it was a natural fit with Nakano, known for its consistency in delivering exceptional quality in their works. We look forward to leveraging their expertise to bring out the best in Sora," said Mr Raymond Chia, Group Chief Executive Officer of SingHaiyi.

Emphasis on outstanding work despite challenges

During the COVID19 pandemic, the construction market was adversely affected by steeply rising costs and unpredictable supply chain disruptions, making it challenging for contractors to make new time and cost commitments for project delivery. During this period, Nakano had adopted a cautious approach and focused on completing projects that were committed to their clients before the pandemic hit.

Despite these unfavourable circumstances, Nakano remained deeply committed to delivering impeccable quality, and successfully delivered prestigious projects such as the Artyzen Singapore Hotel along Cuscaden Road and the One North Eden condominium at one-north gateway, which remain the talk of the town. 

"Once we saw some normalcy returning and the market turbulence easing in 2023, we re-engaged the built environment market boldly and explored various opportunities, including placing more emphasis on residential projects, which is our forte. We take pride in being one of the few Japanese contractors in Singapore who have delivered residential projects consistently over the decades, among our diverse range of project types, and are therefore thrilled to collaborate with SingHaiyi for the Sora project as we find great synergy with them in our ethos to create high quality developments for our clients and consumers. We look forward to a fruitful journey as we deliver 440 beautiful homes for the Sora residents," said Mr Kutsuzawa Yoichi, Managing Director of Nakano Singapore.

Located along Yuan Ching Road, Sora will be developed at the former Park View Mansions site. The ground-breaking ceremony was held on 29 April 2024. Sora Gallery is located at Prinsep Street and will officially be open to the public from 22 June 2024. 

Photos of Nakano's earlier projects:

SINGAPORE, May 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SingHaiyi is poised to deliver yet another quality lifestyle residential concept at the Jurong Lake District as it partners Nakano Singapore (Nakano), a contractor renowned for delivering quality projects in Singapore for nearly 50 years, for Sora. Nestled within the Jurong Lake District, the largest mixed-use business district outside the city centre, Sora promises to be a luxurious development offering tranquillity, convenience and comfort at a high quality.

"Aligned with the Jurong Lake District's transformation to become an integrated hub for live-work-play-learn, our aim is for Sora to offer its owners a premium lifestyle with a fine balance between nature and recreation. SingHaiyi's commitment to homeowners transcends design and lifestyle to quality and peace of mind. Hence, it was a natural fit with Nakano, known for its consistency in delivering exceptional quality in their works. We look forward to leveraging their expertise to bring out the best in Sora," said Mr Raymond Chia, Group Chief Executive Officer of SingHaiyi.

Emphasis on outstanding work despite challenges

During the COVID19 pandemic, the construction market was adversely affected by steeply rising costs and unpredictable supply chain disruptions, making it challenging for contractors to make new time and cost commitments for project delivery. During this period, Nakano had adopted a cautious approach and focused on completing projects that were committed to their clients before the pandemic hit.

Despite these unfavourable circumstances, Nakano remained deeply committed to delivering impeccable quality, and successfully delivered prestigious projects such as the Artyzen Singapore Hotel along Cuscaden Road and the One North Eden condominium at one-north gateway, which remain the talk of the town. 

"Once we saw some normalcy returning and the market turbulence easing in 2023, we re-engaged the built environment market boldly and explored various opportunities, including placing more emphasis on residential projects, which is our forte. We take pride in being one of the few Japanese contractors in Singapore who have delivered residential projects consistently over the decades, among our diverse range of project types, and are therefore thrilled to collaborate with SingHaiyi for the Sora project as we find great synergy with them in our ethos to create high quality developments for our clients and consumers. We look forward to a fruitful journey as we deliver 440 beautiful homes for the Sora residents," said Mr Kutsuzawa Yoichi, Managing Director of Nakano Singapore.

Located along Yuan Ching Road, Sora will be developed at the former Park View Mansions site. The ground-breaking ceremony was held on 29 April 2024. Sora Gallery is located at Prinsep Street and will officially be open to the public from 22 June 2024. 

Photos of Nakano's earlier projects:

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SingHaiyi and Japan's Nakano Singapore to raise the bar for design and quality in Jurong Lake District at upcoming launch

SingHaiyi and Japan's Nakano Singapore to raise the bar for design and quality in Jurong Lake District at upcoming launch

SingHaiyi and Japan's Nakano Singapore to raise the bar for design and quality in Jurong Lake District at upcoming launch

SingHaiyi and Japan's Nakano Singapore to raise the bar for design and quality in Jurong Lake District at upcoming launch

SingHaiyi and Japan's Nakano Singapore to raise the bar for design and quality in Jurong Lake District at upcoming launch

SingHaiyi and Japan's Nakano Singapore to raise the bar for design and quality in Jurong Lake District at upcoming launch

SHANGHAI, May 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- FinVolution Group has officially launched the 2026 FinVolution Global Data Science Competition today. This year's challenge focused on turn-taking modeling in conversations, with the aim of giving voice AI a sense of when to speak.

Voice interaction has reached the native-audio era, with AI now responding in real time. What it still lacks is something humans do by instinct: knowing when to take a turn, when to stay silent, and when a brief "mm-hm" is the right reply. Without it, even the fastest model talks over users or lets dialogue stall.

This year's participants will be given thirty seconds of dual-channel dialogue as context,  to predict the speech events likely to occur in the next 800 milliseconds, equipping AI with the social intuition to read user intent and respond at the right moment.

The dataset behind the challenge is built from real dual-channel telephone conversations recorded across 35 regions of China, spanning a wide range of dialects and speaking styles. Audio comes paired with ASR transcripts and word-level timestamps, allowing participants to build pure-audio or multimodal systems.

"For more than a decade, this competition has been our way of connecting academic research with real-world application," said Tiezheng Li, CEO of FinVolution Group. "Turn-taking is one of the open problems in voice interaction today. We hope what's built here reaches far beyond research, letting millions of users experience more natural, more human conversation in everyday life."

The 2026 challenge is supported by the China Computer Federation(CCF)  Technical Committee on Natural Language Processing as academic advisor, in collaboration with Fudan University's Natural Language Processing Lab. It is also an official partner competition of the 15th CCF International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing(NLPCC 2026). Top-performing teams will earn a direct path to present at NLPCC 2026 alongside the global NLP research community.

Competition Timeline

The 2026 challenge offers a prize pool of RMB 308,000 (approximately USD 42,900) and will unfold in three stages:

Preliminary Round (May 13 – June 19): Participants train locally and submit their prediction results for real-time scoring by the end of June 16. The list of teams advancing to the semifinals will be announced on June 19.

Semifinals (June 20 – July 16): Semifinalists are required to submit Docker images for evaluation by the end of July 7. Finalists will be announced on July 16.

Final Round (July 16 – late July): Finalists will compete in person before a panel of judges, with the exact date to be announced separately.

Registration is now open through the official competition platform.

Over its eleven editions, the FinVolution Global Data Science Competition has drawn close to 10,000 participants from universities, research labs, and technology companies around the world. Past challenges have spanned deepfake detection, credit scoring, fraud detection, user behavior modeling, and dialect recognition. Partnerships with top AI conferences such as IJCAI (2024), CIKM (2025), and now NLPCC (2026) reflect its rising stature in the global AI ecosystem.

About FinVolution Group

FinVolution Group (NYSE: FINV) is a leading fintech company connecting millions of consumers and small businesses with financial institutions through advanced credit technology. Founded in 2007 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2017, the Company operates across China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Australia, with longstanding work in AI, big data, fraud detection, and credit risk modeling. FinVolution actively supports academic research through long-running sponsorships of premier AI conferences including WWW, IJCAI, CIKM, and NLPCC.

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FinVolution Launches 11th Global AI Competition: Teaching Voice AI When to Speak