Mansha Daswani

Content expenditure on TV, movies and online video in India, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam rose by 8 percent last year to top the $10 billion mark, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA).

About 24 percent of Hong Kong consumers use a pirated TV box, according to industry association CASBAA.

After failing to reach a new carriage deal, StarHub in Singapore says it is dropping the suite of Discovery channels from its platform in the coming weeks.

A new report from Media Partners Asia (MPA) projects that the value of sports media rights in the Asia Pacific excluding China will hit $5 billion this year, a 22-percent increase on last year, boosted in large part by OTT players entering the market.

Chinese online platform iQIYI has shored up the rights to the US Open golf tournament.

Rohana Rozhan is exiting her role as CEO of Astro at the end of January 2019 after more than two decades with the Southeast Asian media company.

Rewind Networks has clinched a new carriage deal that brings the HITS network into its ninth market: the Maldives.

Fox Networks Group Asia (FNGA) is hosting the first Taiwanese edition of the Fox Creative Lab, which aims to develop emerging talent in the region.

NBCUniversal International has sealed a carriage deal with CANAL+ in Myanmar that brings the DreamWorks channel to the territory for the first time and expands the reach of DIVA.

Strategies for winning the battle for screen time and wallet share dominated the sessions at APOS in Bali last week, as 700-plus executives from across the Asian and global media landscapes convened to talk about what businesses need to do to remain relevant, and profitable, amid seismic shifts in consumption habits and revenue models.