Mansha Daswani

Online video consumption in Southeast Asia topped 1.25 trillion minutes across AVOD, SVOD, freemium and game streaming platforms in the third quarter, with the number of SVOD subs in the region hitting 33 million, according to new analysis from Media Partners Asia (MPA).

Nick John has been named VP and head of sports at Malaysia's Astro, succeeding CK Lee.

South Korea’s LGU+ IPTV platform is set to add HITS to its lineup next week.

An Indian adaptation of the Archie comics is in the works for Netflix, with Zoya Akhtar tapped to direct the live-action musical film set in the 1960s from Tiger Baby and Graphic India.

In nine AsiaPac markets, U.S. and Korean content accounted for 70 percent of Netflix's streamed minutes in the third quarter, according to new data from Media Partners Asia (MPA).

Hirokazu Koreeda, who won the Palme d'Or for the 2018 movie Shoplifters, is developing a film and drama series for Netflix.

Netflix has unveiled a raft of new Japanese content commissions across both anime and live action.

In conjunction with the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), World Screen is hosting the inaugural Taiwan TV Festival, showcasing some of the island nation’s leading production companies, distributors and broadcasters and highlighting the wealth of diverse content coming out of the country.

With first-time pavilions at MIPCOM and MIA, and a planned delegation at this December’s ATF Online+, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) continues to actively promote Taiwan’s cultural industries abroad.

The eighth edition of the Singapore Media Festival is set to take place from November 25 to December 5, hosted by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA).