PARIS and NEW YORK and SINGAPORE, June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AMTD Group Inc. ("AMTD" or the "Group"), alongside The Generation Essentials Group (NYSE: TGE), a subsidiary of the Group under AMTD Digital (NYSE: HKD), jointly announced that TGE is making significant strides this year in the entertainment sector with multiple upcoming movie releases, including She's Got No Name and My First of May, scheduled to debut in June and August, respectively.
Over the past few years, TGE has established a strong track record in the film industry, with notable productions such as Shock Wave 2, The White Storm 3, Moscow Mission, The Goldfinger, A Gilded Game etc. One of the most recent TGE films, The Last Dance, received over 20 awards at various international film festivals and achieved over USD50 million at the box office, making it the highest-grossing Chinese film and the third highest-grossing film in Hong Kong's history.
In TGE's upcoming movie projects: the first, She's Got No Name, was selected for screening at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in 2024 and has been recognized as one of the most highly anticipated suspense thriller movies in 2025. This movie features a top-tier cast, including Ziyi Zhang, Eric Wang, Jackson Yee, Ting Mei, Zanilia Zhao, Ray Lei, Mi Yang, Yuchang Peng, Chengpeng Dong, and Xian Li. It explores one of China's four notorious criminal cases in 1945. The movie will be released in two parts, with the first part expected across China on June 21st.
The second upcoming film, My First of May, stars acclaimed actors Aaron Kwok, Paw Hee-ching, and Gigi Leung. It is a heartfelt story about a father and daughter rediscovering love and connection while navigating their painful past. This film further explores the theme of family bonding, a topic that was featured in the movie The Last Dance.
Looking ahead, TGE aims to further strengthen its presence in the movie and entertainment sectors. TGE has established a strategic partnership with Alibaba Pictures Culture across areas including film, entertainment, content, and fashion media. With a robust pipeline of upcoming projects, TGE anticipates greater synergies between the entertainment sector and its Global Media and Global Space businesses, generating significant economic value, strengthening its IP value, and enhancing its overall reputation.
About The Generation Essentials Group (formerly known as World Media and Entertainment Universal Inc.)
The Generation Essentials Group, jointly established by AMTD Group, AMTD IDEA Group (NYSE: AMTD; SGX: HKB) and AMTD Digital Inc. (NYSE: HKD), is headquartered in France and focuses on global strategies and developments in multi-media, entertainment, and cultural affairs worldwide as well as hospitality and VIP services. TGE comprises L'Officiel, The Art Newspaper, movie and entertainment projects. Collectively, TGE is a diversified portfolio of media and entertainment businesses, and a global portfolio of premium properties.
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AMTD Group is a conglomerate with a core business portfolio spanning across media and entertainment, education and training, and premium assets and hospitality sectors.
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AMTD IDEA Group (NYSE: AMTD; SGX: HKB) represents a diversified institution and digital solutions group connecting companies and investors with global markets. Its comprehensive one-stop business services plus digital solutions platform addresses different clients' diverse and inter-connected business needs and digital requirements across all phases of their life cycles. AMTD IDEA Group is uniquely positioned as an active super connector between clients, business partners, investee companies, and investors, connecting the East and the West. For more information, please visit www.amtdinc.com or follow us on X (formerly known as "Twitter") at @AMTDGroup.
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AMTD Digital Inc. (NYSE: HKD) is a comprehensive digital solutions platform headquartered in France. Its one-stop digital solutions platform operates key business lines including digital media, content and marketing services, investments as well as hospitality and VIP services. For AMTD Digital's announcements, please visit https://ir.amtdigital.net/investor-news.
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TGE Successfully Advances Multiple Movie Releases This Year, Including "She's Got No Name" and "My First of May," Coming Out in June and August Respectively
TGE Successfully Advances Multiple Movie Releases This Year, Including "She's Got No Name" and "My First of May," Coming Out in June and August Respectively
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An Education Cannot Wait-funded, Norwegian Refugee Council and Save the Children-supported holistic education programme is bringing internally-displaced children to school for the very first time in Ethiopia.
BABILE WOREDA, Ethiopia, Dec. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- When Kansa was eleven years old, her quiet life was turned upside down. Born in Belbelītī Village in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, the young girl's days were spent helping her family tend to their livestock. But when the border conflict between the Somali and Oromia regions arrived at their doorstep, Kansa and her family were forced to flee their home – leaving everything but the clothes on their backs behind.
The family of nine – Kansa, her parents and six siblings – eventually found safety and settled in the Kologi IDP Camp in Babile Woreda, Somali Region. Despite the upheaval and loss that young Kansa experienced during this unimaginable time, she notes one shining silver lining to her new life: school.
Before coming to the IDP camp, Kansa had never stepped foot inside of a classroom.
After arriving at Kologi Camp, a back-to-school campaign created awareness in the community about the benefits of education and encouraged parents, including Kansa's, to enroll their daughters and sons in the camp primary school. Now 15, Kansa is a star student at Horsade Primary School and looks forward to class every day.
Supported by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) with funding from Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises within the United Nations, the camp school is providing a holistic education response in the crisis-affected community.
Growing up in Belbelītī Village, Kansa didn't think she would ever have the opportunity to attend school, or dream of a life outside of tending livestock and doing household chores. "Most girls like me despaired of ever getting an education," she says.
Today, Kansa is in the fourth grade. A student at Horsade Primary School in the Kologi IDP Camp, she has been regularly attending school for four years. Her favorite subjects are English, mathematics and environmental science.
The fifteen-year-old has big dreams for her future, too. She says, "I want to be educated and become a university lecturer."
Ethiopia is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises it has seen in decades due to internal violence, insecurity, poverty, displacement, hunger and malnutrition compounded by the impacts of climate change. The worst drought in four decades, exacerbated by climate change, is triggering conflicts and has made survival a daily struggle for many in the country. These challenges are compromising the education of hundreds of thousands of children.
Since 2017, ECW has been supporting refugee, internally-displaced and host community children to access safe and inclusive educational opportunities – with the aim of increasing enrolment and continuity of education; providing training for teachers; strengthening school infrastructure; and building community support for safe, inclusive, holistic learning environments, with a focus on girls and children with disabilities.
ECW's investments in Ethiopia are ensuring that in-country partners like NRC are able to provide critical 'whole-of-child' interventions. For Kansa and the children in Kologi IDP Camp, this translates to quality education, the provision of school materials and menstrual hygiene products, school feeding programmes, access to clean water, mental health and psychosocial support, support from peer and girls' clubs, and more.
ECW-supported partners Save the Children and NRC work in close collaboration to ensure school feeding for crisis-affected children like Kansa. "My family and I eat once or twice a day. But unlike us, most of my classmates are not able to eat even once daily," she says. "Getting this service in school has tremendously increased our enrollment. School feeding is crucial for all of us."
Joining an NRC-facilitated girls' club at school, Kansa has continued to flourish under the encouragement and support of peers and coaches. The club has provided girls in the camp with a safe place to discuss things such as school and menstrual hygiene management.
Four years into her education, Kansa has gained more than the ability to read, write and do math. She has become a happier child and learned to dream. "We, as displaced people, used to feel that we were not equal to others and that we couldn't get an education. As a girl, going to school was unthinkable. However, attending this school and receiving support from the girls' club has boosted my confidence and shown me that we have the same right to learn as boys do – and that I can do anything," says Kansa.
An Education Cannot Wait-funded, Norwegian Refugee Council and Save the Children-supported holistic education programme is bringing internally-displaced children to school for the very first time in Ethiopia.
BABILE WOREDA, Ethiopia, Dec. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- When Kansa was eleven years old, her quiet life was turned upside down. Born in Belbelītī Village in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, the young girl's days were spent helping her family tend to their livestock. But when the border conflict between the Somali and Oromia regions arrived at their doorstep, Kansa and her family were forced to flee their home – leaving everything but the clothes on their backs behind.
The family of nine – Kansa, her parents and six siblings – eventually found safety and settled in the Kologi IDP Camp in Babile Woreda, Somali Region. Despite the upheaval and loss that young Kansa experienced during this unimaginable time, she notes one shining silver lining to her new life: school.
Before coming to the IDP camp, Kansa had never stepped foot inside of a classroom.
After arriving at Kologi Camp, a back-to-school campaign created awareness in the community about the benefits of education and encouraged parents, including Kansa's, to enroll their daughters and sons in the camp primary school. Now 15, Kansa is a star student at Horsade Primary School and looks forward to class every day.
Supported by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) with funding from Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises within the United Nations, the camp school is providing a holistic education response in the crisis-affected community.
Growing up in Belbelītī Village, Kansa didn't think she would ever have the opportunity to attend school, or dream of a life outside of tending livestock and doing household chores. "Most girls like me despaired of ever getting an education," she says.
Today, Kansa is in the fourth grade. A student at Horsade Primary School in the Kologi IDP Camp, she has been regularly attending school for four years. Her favorite subjects are English, mathematics and environmental science.
The fifteen-year-old has big dreams for her future, too. She says, "I want to be educated and become a university lecturer."
Ethiopia is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises it has seen in decades due to internal violence, insecurity, poverty, displacement, hunger and malnutrition compounded by the impacts of climate change. The worst drought in four decades, exacerbated by climate change, is triggering conflicts and has made survival a daily struggle for many in the country. These challenges are compromising the education of hundreds of thousands of children.
Since 2017, ECW has been supporting refugee, internally-displaced and host community children to access safe and inclusive educational opportunities – with the aim of increasing enrolment and continuity of education; providing training for teachers; strengthening school infrastructure; and building community support for safe, inclusive, holistic learning environments, with a focus on girls and children with disabilities.
ECW's investments in Ethiopia are ensuring that in-country partners like NRC are able to provide critical 'whole-of-child' interventions. For Kansa and the children in Kologi IDP Camp, this translates to quality education, the provision of school materials and menstrual hygiene products, school feeding programmes, access to clean water, mental health and psychosocial support, support from peer and girls' clubs, and more.
ECW-supported partners Save the Children and NRC work in close collaboration to ensure school feeding for crisis-affected children like Kansa. "My family and I eat once or twice a day. But unlike us, most of my classmates are not able to eat even once daily," she says. "Getting this service in school has tremendously increased our enrollment. School feeding is crucial for all of us."
Joining an NRC-facilitated girls' club at school, Kansa has continued to flourish under the encouragement and support of peers and coaches. The club has provided girls in the camp with a safe place to discuss things such as school and menstrual hygiene management.
Four years into her education, Kansa has gained more than the ability to read, write and do math. She has become a happier child and learned to dream. "We, as displaced people, used to feel that we were not equal to others and that we couldn't get an education. As a girl, going to school was unthinkable. However, attending this school and receiving support from the girls' club has boosted my confidence and shown me that we have the same right to learn as boys do – and that I can do anything," says Kansa.
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From Livestock to Learning: Kansa's Story
