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The U.S.-based private equity firm Silver Lake has invested Rs 5,656 crore ($746.74 million) in Jio Platforms, the digital-services arm of India’s Reliance Industries, which also recently received a sizable investment from Facebook.

Starz has rolled out its international premium streaming service StarzPlay in Japan through Apple TV channels.

POPS Worldwide has appointed Marissa Hanafi as head of OTT and content in Thailand.

Mediacorp has launched #Stories4SG, an initiative through which the company is commissioning short-form content to support production companies in Singapore impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

BBC Studios and ByteDance’s Xigua Video have inked a multi-genre content partnership that includes the exclusive licensing of two brand-new BBC Studios documentaries in mainland China.

Weekly consumption of online video rose by 60 percent in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore amid COVID-19-related stay-at-home measures this month, according to Media Partners Asia (MPA).

Joining a host of other global broadcasters and platforms, Hulu Japan will stream the One World: Together at Home special in support of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Singapore's IMDA has launched several new measures to assist the local media sector amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

PCCW Media has started offering the Now E streaming service free to all Hong Kong viewers in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Sony Corporation of America has made a $400 million equity investment in the Chinese entertainment platform Bilibili.