Asian Media

The 5th Asia Media Summit in 2008, which has been scheduled on 27-28 May in Kuala Lumpur, will promote a varied and dynamic mix of content and format to enhance knowledge sharing and participation. Participation for the Summit, one of the premier communication events in Asia-Pacific, is expected from more than 500 high-ranking government officials, policymakers, [...]

2007 is a pleasant year for internet industry in Thailand. Internet securities trading more than doubled in 2007, thanks to lower transaction fees and the convenience of electronic trading channels. Online trades are charged a commission of just 0.15%, well below the 0.25% minimum set for normal trading. I don’t know. I seldom hear about this kind of [...]

HOW do Singapore keep broadband subscription prices low for consumers? Find the answer from this article.

I’ve just read this article from The Economist that talks about how journalism training is booming in the developing countries. What attracts me is the first paragraph of the article that says: “traditional media may be declining in much of the rich world, but in poor countries it is booming. The growth in private media [...]

BAD news for every press freedom enthusiasts: The telecom regularity body of the government yesterday pulled the plugs on the transmission of CSB News, a satellite TV channel of Focus Multimedia Company, for ‘forgery’. A group of officials of the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regularity Commission (BTRC) including three deputy directors and an assistant director accompanied by a number [...]

I have just read an article written by Arman Ahmad from Penang Watch, that tells about how YouTube became popular in Malaysia (YouTube is the fifth most popular website there, according to alexa.com). Ahmad said, YouTube first began to gain prominence during the nude squat incident in which a woman was forced to do nude squats while [...]

On August 24th 2006, a London-based weekly news magazine The Economics wrote a provocative-titled article “Who Killed The Newspaper?”. By the rise of Internet, many people by then believed that the end of “traditional” media is approaching. But is it, really? In India, according to a report by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) recently, the [...]

Leading broadcasters in Asia-Pacific are meeting at the Asia Media Summit 2007, held on 29-31 May 2007 in Kuala Lumpur. They are to examine business models and strategies in addressing the industry’s many challenges - the explosion of new channels, new technologies, audience fragmentation, media globalization and changing consumer patterns. It is said that the Summit [...]