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Singapore Media Festival 2021, including the Asia TV Forum and Market (ATF), Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore Comic Con (SGCC) and VidCon Asia Summit, wrapped on December 5 after a strong showing.

India took home a total of seven wins at this year's Asian Academy Creative Awards, while Korea's five wins included Move to Heaven being named best drama.

BBC Studios has clinched a deal with Singtel in Singapore for a bouquet of linear channels, the on-demand service BBC First and the BBC Player SVOD platform.

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) unveiled several new initiatives to boost the Singapore content industry at ATF, where the national virtual pavilion is presenting more than 600 hours of locally produced shows.

Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) has several initiatives in the pipeline that aim to develop the capabilities of and provide support for Singapore’s media talents to go global.

NHK Executive VP Satoru Masagaki has been elected as the new president of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU).

Helen Sou, chief business officer for digital media and Viu Asia at parent company PCCW, shares with World Screen Newsflash the strategies driving the Viu platform’s subscriber and usage gains.

In association with the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), World Screen is highlighting the dynamic South Korean market in our second Korean TV Festival.

World Screen is putting the spotlight on hot properties for ATF Online+ in our inaugural TV Asia Screenings Festival.

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).