Global Sources Mobile Electronics attracts volume buyers from more than 140 countries and features 3,700 booths of devices, wearables, AR/VR and accessories from manufacturers and suppliers from China, Korea and across Asia.  The show highlights the rapidly accelerating innovation coming out of the region through conferences, Experience Zones and Startup Launchpad, the premier sourcing platform for hardware and retails solutions startups.

Eco Expo Asia – Waste Less Save More for a Low-carbon Future

Organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, and co-hosted by the Environment Bureau of the Government of HKSARG, Eco Expo Asia is Asia’s trusted trade fair for global industry players to showcase the cutting-edge environmental technology, solutions and products.

Fair highlights include:
• Key Product Categories - Green Buildings & Energy Efficiency, Green Transportation, Waste Management & Recycling, Water Treatment & Quality Management
• Startup Zone
• Eco Asia Conference (25-27 Oct)
• Public Day (28 Oct) – Green Mart, Workshops, Forum, Test Drive/Test Ride of Electric Vehicles

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council will stage the 3rd Hong Kong International Outdoor & Tech Light Expo from 26 to 29 Oct 2018 at the AsiaWorld-Expo. The Outdoor and Tech Light Expo is expected to host more than 420 specialist exhibitors from around the world, making it a rich source of lighting for commercial and industrial use.

Global Sources Fashion is the largest fashion sourcing show in Hong Kong, featuring the latest fashion accessories, fabrics and apparel from China and across Asia. It is co-located with the new Global Sources Lifestyle show on October 27–30 at AsiaWorld-Expo, giving buyers the opportunity to visit more than 2,500 booths of fashion items, gifts, premiums and home products, all under one roof.

The show hosts the largest collections in Hong Kong of bags & luggage, sports fashion & active lifestyle products and footwear, plus trendy designs in the Underwear & Swimwear pavilion including a new selection of sexy lingerie. Fashion Tech Zone showcases tech-enabled fashion products with demos from exhibitors. Rising & Young Designers Corner is a dedicated area for fashion startups and up-and-coming designers.

The new Global Sources Lifestyle show is dedicated to helping buyers find curated, creative, high-profit gifts, premiums and home products. It is co-located with Global Sources Fashion on October 27–30 at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo, giving buyers the opportunity to visit more than 2,500 booths of lifestyle products, fashion accessories, fabrics and apparel, all under one roof.  

The Cool Design Awards and Gallery recognize innovative, cool products picked out by big buyers and e-tailers. Meet the Millennials is a special curation of products that appeal to millennials. New Sourcing Markets Pavilion showcases sustainable products from emerging markets in Southeast Asia.

Over the past three years, Charlie Puth has proven himself commercially with the extraordinary success of four multi-platinum hits, “One Call Away,” “Marvin Gaye,” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore” from his platinum-selling, Top 10 debut album Nine Track Mind, as well as his breakout hit “See You Again” — the best-selling song of 2015 worldwide that spent 12 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, earned him three Grammy nominations (including Song of the Year), a Golden Globe nomination, and 9x-platinum certification in the U.S. But the New Jersey-born singer, songwriter, musician, and producer was also eager to prove himself artistically when it came time to make his second album, Voicenotes, named after the trusty iPhone app he uses to collect his musical ideas. Puth co-wrote every song and recorded and produced the album entirely himself (barring one song he co-produced with Max Martin) mainly at his home studio in Los Angeles.

On the lyrical front, Voicenotes is an album that is largely about Puth’s struggle to find a normal relationship when his own life has hardly been normal since finding multiplatinum success, and the anxiety that pursuit has induced. “I wanted it to be a story of my travels from the East Coast to the West Coast and how my growing fame has affected my mind in good and bad ways,” he says. The first three singles — “Attention,” “How Long,” and “Done For Me” featuring Kehlani — cover that territory.

Audiences have embraced Puth’s bold new direction. “Attention,” which the New York Times pop critic Jon Caramanica listed fourth on his year-end list of “Best Songs of 2017,” climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Puth’s highest-charting single as a solo artist), hit No. 1 on both the Top 40 and Hot AC radio charts, and his been certified double-platinum, while the funky, cheating-ex song “How Long“ hit No. 3 at Top 40 radio and has been certified platinum.

For all of his success, Puth still sees himself as the kid from Rumson who played organ in church and made mixtapes for the girls at school. “I still have the same deep infatuation with chord changes, girls, and food,” he says. “Nothing’s really changed. I still find myself to be a pretty humble guy. Every room I walk into I think I’m the worst songwriter and I have to prove myself. But it’s because of that that I get better.”