Chelsea Regan

HOOQ has signed a three-year first-look and co-production deal with Anthony Chen, the award-winning filmmaker who collaborated with the VOD service on Wet Season, its first original movie for Singapore.

Mediacorp and *SCAPE, a Singapore-based nonprofit youth development organization, have signed a three-year agreement to explore avenues for the promotion and talent development of young people aged 15 to 35.

iQIYI Sports, a joint venture between iQIYI and Super Sports Media, has picked up the exclusive live-streaming rights for the 2019-20 season of LaLiga for the China market.

Sony Pictures Sports Network (SPSN) in India has launched Olympic Channel programming on its linear and digital platforms ahead of Tokyo 2020.

Blue Ant Media Asia Pacific has appointed Asian Cable Communications, Inc. (ACCION) as the network’s exclusive channel distributor in the Philippines.

DRG has closed deals with the pan-Asian streaming service iflix and iwonder, a new Singapore-based factual SVOD platform.

Genie Gurnani, who starred on the most recent season of Drag Race Thailand, has been tapped to be the head of creative for VICE in the Asia-Pacific region.

VidCon is headed to Singapore for its first-ever VidCon Asia Summit, a two-day event that will be held at the Raffles City Convention Centre from December 3 to 4.

ATF Chinese Pitch has begun its search for new content for Chinese-speaking markets and is currently accepting scripts from around the world in both Chinese and English.

Japan's Nippon TV has promoted Yoshio Okubo to chairman and CEO and Yoshinobu Kosugi to president.