With Asian countries powering a large part of the global economic growth, video streaming services like Netflix are hoping to strike gold in these nations. And as per a report by Media Partners Asia, video content production spending in countries like India, South Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand grew by an impressive 8 ...
It’s been over a month since culinary TV show host Anthony Bourdain died, yet his CNN series Parts Unknown has just received six nominations for the 2018 Emmy awards. The Emmy nominations The show had received nominations in the following six categories: outstanding cinematography, outstanding informational series or special, outstanding picture editing, outstanding sound mixing, ...
Do you believe in a predestined relationship? In the East, a predestined relationship is called “yuan fen.” It is the idea that all the events people encounter during their lives were prearranged. In the West, there is a similar concept known as “fate.” Some believe that all the good things we have today were systematically arranged ...
Recently, on a street in Vienna, Austria, the city of music, a Taiwan children’s choir sang with voices as beautiful as that of a golden songbird. Their flash mob performance mesmerized the crowd. What was the story behind their performance? The children were members of a choir from the Yihsing branch of Jiahsing Elementary School in ...
Many studies have shown that musical training can enhance language skills. However, it was unknown whether music lessons improve general cognitive ability, leading to better language proficiency, or if the effect of music is more specific to language processing. A new study from MIT has found that piano lessons have a very specific effect on ...
From its inception in 2002 until today, the annual Passport to Taiwan Festival has grown to become the largest outdoor Taiwanese American event in the U.S. This year, the New York City event was considered to be the largest Asian American festival held anywhere in the country. In 1999, Congress designated the second week in ...
It is no secret that K-pop is the hottest thing in the global music industry. K-pop band BTS even cracked into the top position of the U.S. Billboard 200 just recently. But what has been a cause of concern for governments worldwide is that pop fans of the bands tend to get a bit out of ...
Peppa Pig, popular in over 170 nations, has conquered the market of children’s entertainment, becoming a billion-dollar business. Most won’t think there’s anything wrong with the cartoon and, certainly, not one to get banned. But in China, the short cartoons about the pig and her family have been banned from Douyin, a Chinese video platform. In ...
Peppa Pig, a British cartoon favorite, has been banned by China’s top video platfors Douyin. It appears that the website became wary of the growing popularity of the cartoon, especially, among young Chinese adults, which resulted in this ban. Nevertheless, many were surprised with the ban, as Peppa Pig has become quite famous in China, ...
There was a time when Hollywood films alone topped the box office in China and garnered a growth in revenue from US$455 million to around US$8.6 billion in the last decade. However, it seems that Hollywood films are losing their popularity among the Chinese audience. Earlier this year, popular Hollywood hits like Black Panther did very well at ...
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