Country Profile

China

Good for some, frustrating for others, but forever one of Asia’s potential pots of gold, China will remain a mixed bag of opportunity and disappointment through 2010. Read more »

Hong Kong

Dominant free-TV broadcaster TVB said it best, calling the first half of 2009 a lesson in “providing creative solutions and looking for opportunistic selling prospects”. Read more »

India

For the most part, India is Asia’s hottest – if not the easiest – media market. Read more »

Indonesia

Indonesia’s television industry is back... big time. Read more »

Japan

Japan’s major broadcasters may have had a terrible time in 2009, but there’s still nothing like the hint of another quirky format idea to bring the international developers running. Read more »

Korea

Korea’s media mission is to up its involvement in – and profile on – the international stage. Read more »

Malaysia moves into 2010 with a newly energised government media sector, a powerful pay-TV player on track to deliver an additional 250,000-300,000 paying subs a year, the promise of unprecedented Read more »

Pakistan

In numbers... Read more »

Philippines

Perhaps the biggest triumph for local and regional pay-TV programmers at least was against pirate operator Turtle Cable in the middle of 2009 after a protracted and painful legal battle. Read more »

Singapore

A single issue hangs magnificently over Singapore as the tiny island nation moves into a forever-changed multichannel environment – SingTel vs StarHub. Read more »

Taiwan

While Taiwanese and mainland Chinese content creators cosy up to make co-pro magic amid thawing political relations, programmers are celebrating the kind of digital progress that lets them get beyo Read more »

Thailand

Red and Yellow may have dominated most things in Thailand in 2009 as political factions continued their face-off. Read more »

Vietnam

Vietnam in 2010 is expected to remain big on potential but low on $$. Read more »