HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Dec. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vietnam's newest cultural superclub launches with two global headliners, marking a defining moment for Saigon's rising electronic music movement. APLUS SAIGON officially opens its doors with a landmark Soft Opening Weekends event series, positioning the venue as Southeast Asia's next essential nightlife destination. The two-week celebration features headline performances by genre-defining artists Dombresky (January 17, 2026) and Argy (January 23, 2026), setting the tone for APLUS SAIGON's world-standard programming.
DOMBRESKY @ APLUS SAIGON: An 80s Glamour Celebration – January 17, 2026
Dombresky, a globally recognized house music tastemaker celebrated for radiant, euphoric production and his cultural influence within contemporary nightlife, brings his signature uplifting energy to APLUS SAIGON's debut night.
Known for crafting emotionally resonant sets that balance underground credibility with infectious joy, Dombresky has become synonymous with modern house music's most vibrant expressions.
Dombresky's journey into house music has led to milestones that few artists can achieve, including performances at Lollapalooza, Coachella, and EDC Mexico, headlining major festivals such as Snowglobe and Countdown NYC, and selling out iconic venues like the Hollywood Palladium.
Experience Design:
The night channels an 80s glamour fever dream - mirrored surfaces, crystalline lighting, and a shimmering visual world that feels like stepping into a glittering music-video atmosphere.
Show Moment:
At the climax of Dombresky's set:
- Dancers descend from six aerial points
- Bubble-rain drifts through the crowd
- Crystal-sharp lighting and visuals converge into a dreamlike house crescendo
ARGY @ APLUS SAIGON: Indoor Festival – January 23, 2026
Argy, a powerhouse in melodic techno and a fixture of the world's most prestigious festival stages, brings his signature dramatic intensity to the second headline night.
Known for cinematic production and hypnotic technical mastery, Argy's sets unfold as immersive journeys into the darker, surreal landscapes of electronic music.
He has appeared at many of the world's most influential club venues and festivals, including Exit, Tomorrowland, and EDC Vegas, among them, as well as his latest iconic performance at Ultra: closing the festival in a torrential downpour, making it a highly talked-about experience for 2024 attendees.
A High-Production Indoor Festival
APLUS SAIGON transforms into a full-scale indoor festival, with expansive, surreal visuals and high-definition sound enveloping over 1,000 guests in a world far beyond traditional clubbing.
Show Moment — "Voices In My Head"
During Argy's defining track, the venue architecture becomes part of the performance:
- LED ceiling panels cascade downward in a coordinated descent
- Thousands of animated eyes open and close in synchronized waves. This haunting, cinematic sequence is engineered as a viral cultural moment for the night.
ABOUT APLUS SAIGON
APLUS SAIGON is the newest cultural superclub under the APLUS brand, an ecosystem dedicated to elevating Vietnam's nightlife to a world-standard level. Designed as an indoor festival environment, the club fuses advanced sound innovation, immersive visual technology, and culturally driven storytelling to create a uniquely Vietnamese clubbing identity with global ambition. Powered by L-ACOUSTICS L2, the same next-generation sound technology used in global festivals and arena tours, APLUS SAIGON transforms music into a fully immersive physical experience. With capacity for over thousands of guests and a venue-wide LED system that envelops the entire space, the club feels less like a nightclub and more like a purpose-built indoor festival.
Its vision is to become Asia's benchmark superclub — a place where Vietnamese nightlife earns international recognition for creativity, scale, and sound innovation. Positioned at the intersection of local culture, cutting-edge electronic music, and global club standards, APLUS SAIGON aims to reshape how audiences experience nightlife and how the world sees Vietnam. The venue builds upon the success of APLUS HANOI, ranked #67 worldwide in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs 2025 and crowned #1 in Vietnam - a recognized destination for leading global EDM acts including Maddix, DubVision, Plastik Funk, Le Twins, and Agents of Time. At the same time, APLUS is committed to nurturing Vietnamese talent and elevating them onto the international stage through signature event series like ACONIC+, cementing its reputation as one of Asia's fastest-rising club brands.
"We built APLUS on two core values: Connection and Innovation. Our aim is to place Vietnamese nightlife on the global stage by delivering a standard that is not only 'A' — Excellent — but 'Plus,' meaning exceptional, elevated, and always one step further. APLUS is more than a name; it is a formula — a belief that everything can be pushed to the next level: in sound, in light, in service, and in experience."
EVENT DETAILS
DOMBRESKY: AN 80S GLAMOUR CELEBRATION
- Date: Saturday - January 17, 2026
- Theme: Glamour | House Music
ARGY: INDOOR FESTIVAL
- Date: Friday - January 23, 2026
- Theme: Indoor Festival | Melodic Techno
EVENT ASSETS
KEY ASSETS
CONTACT
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aplus.saigon/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aplussaigon/
Email: partnership@aplussaigon.com
Hotline/Booking table: +84 97 792 22 22 (WhatsApp)
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Vietnam's Newest EDM Destination, APLUS SAIGON, Debuts With Star-Studded Soft Opening Weekends Featuring Dombresky and Argy
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The dual "thermal + membrane" technology leads green water treatment solutions, sets global benchmark for project implementation
SHANGHAI, Dec. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Electric (SEHK: 2727, SSE: 601727) now ranks 5th globally for the capacity of newly built seawater desalination projects from 2024 to 2025, a jump of four places from the previous ranking, according to the recently released statistics by the International Desalination and Reuse Association (IDRA) and Global Water Intelligence (GWI).
In terms of cumulative project capacity over the past 10 years (2016-2025), Shanghai Electric ranks 8th globally, up three places from the previous ranking. IDRA is a global non-profit organization that has connected the desalination and water reuse community since 1973, and GWI is the leading market intelligence provider for the global water sector over the last 20 years.
A Shanghai Electric spokesperson attributed the improved ranking to strong international endorsement of Shanghai Electric's desalination expertise and project execution, highlighting that this achievement is built on more than 10 years of dedicated development in both thermal and membrane-based technologies. In the future, Shanghai Electric remains committed to delivering environmentally friendly, high-performance, and cost-effective desalination solutions to address global water scarcity challenges.
Shanghai Electric stands as one of the few global enterprises to have mastered the two major core desalination technologies: thermal-based multi-effect distillation (MED) and membrane-based reverse osmosis (RO), providing complete dual-technology solutions. Its seawater desalination expertise now extends beyond standalone water supply and enables diversified industrial applications.
By innovatively integrating waste heat recovery and resource utilization, the company delivers comprehensive, energy-efficient, and high-yield desalination solutions. The tailored systems ensure a stable supply of high-quality freshwater for critical coastal industries such as power generation, steel, and chemical manufacturing.
Over the years, Shanghai Electric has been recognized globally for technical reliability, project execution capability, and international brand presence. The significant rise in ranking is supported by the group's comprehensive technological solutions across the entire desalination spectrum and its proven track record in successfully delivering major projects both domestically and overseas:
- The Hengyi PMB petrochemical project in Brunei is a benchmark project with a capacity of 3×12,500 tons per day, and it adopts the world's first combined low-temperature multi-effect distillation (LT-MED) and hot water flash evaporation technology and possesses fully independent intellectual property rights.
- The Waste-Heat Desalination Project of Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co., Ltd. as the largest thermal desalination EPC project undertaken by Shanghai Electric in China has a combined capacity of 305,000 tons per day across its first and second phases, utilizing forward multi-effect distillation (F-MED) technology powered by industrial waste heat.
- The Yulong Petrochemical Thermal-Membrane Hybrid Desalination Project in Yantai, with a capacity of 160,000 tons per day, employs a novel F-MED-RO hybrid technology that integrates thermal and membrane processes. By leveraging a "cascaded use" approach to recover and utilize low-temperature industrial waste heat, it achieves green, low-carbon, and resource-efficient water production. It stands as the world's largest thermal-membrane hybrid seawater desalination project.
Looking ahead, Shanghai Electric will continue to leverage its comprehensive technological portfolio and extensive global project experience to provide greener, more economical, and more reliable sustainable water solutions for clients worldwide. The group remains dedicated to addressing the global challenge of water scarcity, consistently contributing the "Chinese wisdom" and the "Shanghai Electric solution."
For more information, please visit https://www.shanghai-electric.com/group_en/.
The dual "thermal + membrane" technology leads green water treatment solutions, sets global benchmark for project implementation
SHANGHAI, Dec. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Electric (SEHK: 2727, SSE: 601727) now ranks 5th globally for the capacity of newly built seawater desalination projects from 2024 to 2025, a jump of four places from the previous ranking, according to the recently released statistics by the International Desalination and Reuse Association (IDRA) and Global Water Intelligence (GWI).
In terms of cumulative project capacity over the past 10 years (2016-2025), Shanghai Electric ranks 8th globally, up three places from the previous ranking. IDRA is a global non-profit organization that has connected the desalination and water reuse community since 1973, and GWI is the leading market intelligence provider for the global water sector over the last 20 years.
A Shanghai Electric spokesperson attributed the improved ranking to strong international endorsement of Shanghai Electric's desalination expertise and project execution, highlighting that this achievement is built on more than 10 years of dedicated development in both thermal and membrane-based technologies. In the future, Shanghai Electric remains committed to delivering environmentally friendly, high-performance, and cost-effective desalination solutions to address global water scarcity challenges.
Shanghai Electric stands as one of the few global enterprises to have mastered the two major core desalination technologies: thermal-based multi-effect distillation (MED) and membrane-based reverse osmosis (RO), providing complete dual-technology solutions. Its seawater desalination expertise now extends beyond standalone water supply and enables diversified industrial applications.
By innovatively integrating waste heat recovery and resource utilization, the company delivers comprehensive, energy-efficient, and high-yield desalination solutions. The tailored systems ensure a stable supply of high-quality freshwater for critical coastal industries such as power generation, steel, and chemical manufacturing.
Over the years, Shanghai Electric has been recognized globally for technical reliability, project execution capability, and international brand presence. The significant rise in ranking is supported by the group's comprehensive technological solutions across the entire desalination spectrum and its proven track record in successfully delivering major projects both domestically and overseas:
- The Hengyi PMB petrochemical project in Brunei is a benchmark project with a capacity of 3×12,500 tons per day, and it adopts the world's first combined low-temperature multi-effect distillation (LT-MED) and hot water flash evaporation technology and possesses fully independent intellectual property rights.
- The Waste-Heat Desalination Project of Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co., Ltd. as the largest thermal desalination EPC project undertaken by Shanghai Electric in China has a combined capacity of 305,000 tons per day across its first and second phases, utilizing forward multi-effect distillation (F-MED) technology powered by industrial waste heat.
- The Yulong Petrochemical Thermal-Membrane Hybrid Desalination Project in Yantai, with a capacity of 160,000 tons per day, employs a novel F-MED-RO hybrid technology that integrates thermal and membrane processes. By leveraging a "cascaded use" approach to recover and utilize low-temperature industrial waste heat, it achieves green, low-carbon, and resource-efficient water production. It stands as the world's largest thermal-membrane hybrid seawater desalination project.
Looking ahead, Shanghai Electric will continue to leverage its comprehensive technological portfolio and extensive global project experience to provide greener, more economical, and more reliable sustainable water solutions for clients worldwide. The group remains dedicated to addressing the global challenge of water scarcity, consistently contributing the "Chinese wisdom" and the "Shanghai Electric solution."
For more information, please visit https://www.shanghai-electric.com/group_en/.
** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **
Shanghai Electric Rises to Top 5 in Global Desalination Rankings
