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Despite Dropping Sales And Demos, A Hope That The Worst Is Over HONG KONG--One thousand years ago, medieval Europe viewed the advent of the new millennium with terror, believing it […]

SYDNEY--Sanity Music, Australia's largest music retail chain, has defended itself against reports of a major glitch on its Web site--in the same week the company prepared to float its sanity.com […]

SYDNEY--The battle between Australia's labels and publishers over mechanical royalty rates (Billboard, Dec. 4) has sharply intensified after the Australian Recording Industry Assn. (ARIA) asked a judge to set an […]

SYDNEY--Both sides in the Australian mechanical royalty rates talks (Billboard, Nov. 20) say they are 'not that far apart' following 'amicable, friendly, helpful, and honest' discussions. However, it appears that […]

SEOUL, South Korea-Young-In Kim has been named managing director of EMI Music Korea, taking over from David Y. Shim, who joined Warner Music Korea as managing director April 1 (Billboard, […]

HONG KONG--Five years have passed since Channel V was born, after one of the shortest gestation periods for any TV channel, let alone one that sought to blaze a trail […]

THE BILLBOARD INTERVIEW HONG KONG-Today, the waters of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor are slate-gray/blue in color, a reflection of the dark clouds overhead spawned by an early-summer tropical storm. Directly […]

HONG KONG--China remains the key market for Channel V, where 21 million homes access the service on a 24-hour basis and 100 million more receive syndicated Channel V programming daily […]

Members of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the Motion Picture Assn. (MPA) on July 19 jointly filed writs in the High Court in Hong Kong seeking […]

Hong Kong Efforts Called Inadequate HONG KONG--Ahead of the Aug. 3 annual general meeting of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) Hong Kong affiliate, a member of the […]

MTV ASIA'S Chinese-language feed, MTV Mandarin, is claiming increases in advertising revenue and audience reach. Senior VP/managing director Harry Hui notes that the channel is now connected to 39.6 million […]

HONG KONG--The damage being done to Hong Kong's trading reputation by CD piracy may yet lead to jail sentences for the first people in the territory convicted of illegally manufacturing […]

Panel Examines The Questions Of Cost And Creativity Provocative and different, or normal but interesting? Big budget and extravagant, or low-cost but imaginative? Widely differing approaches to the music video […]

Web's Value In Breaking Acts Discussed How can the recording industry use the new technologies to find, sign, and develop tomorrow's hit-makers? These opportunities and challenges formed the basis of […]

4 Divisions Implemented; India Sees Major Changes HONG KONG--Pan-Asian music TV service Channel V has launched a major restructuring of its operations into four divisions: India, Greater China, International, and […]

China's nascent direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV service appears set to increase its channel lineup fivefold by autumn, to 40, as it continues to bring TV signals to tens of millions [...]

ASIAN MUSIC broadcaster Channel V has promoted Ruuben van den Heuvel to director of music and artist relations, replacing Pearl Chia, who left the Hong Kong-based station in March. Van […]

[BEIJING] The NATO bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade on May has exacerbated an ongoing problem by prompting yet another Beijing crackdown on cable and satellite systems picking up overseas [...]

HONG KONG -- Monopoly pay TV provider Cable TV is set to launch a broadband-Internet service here by midsummer. Wharf Holdings Inc., Cable TV's owners, wants to start a test [...]

China's crackdown on foreign satellite-TV providers is directly linked to a heightened political climate before two highly sensitive anniversaries, according to industry observers. The government's sentiment that prompted the directive [...]

ONLINE PROMOTION is going to be an increasingly vital marketing tool for labels, according to Jordan Rost, Warner Music Group's senior VP of new technology, speaking April 21 at Warner […]

HONG KONG--Bonding, fraternity, and building a worldwide family of labels marked the themes of this year's Warner Music International (WMI) worldwide managing directors' conference, held April 19-22 at the Grand […]

Taiwan, one of Asia's most receptive pay-TV markets for international programmers, may soon reach a saturation point, the head of the island republic's largest MSO warned. Foreign channels that have [...]

HONG KONG -- The head of Hong Kong's pioneering video-on-demand project is expected to leave and take over the local operations of an American bank, according to local news reports. [...]

HONG KONG - Troubled pay TV provider Cable TV's plans to launch a cable-telephony project here with a sister company in the Wharf Holdings stable have run into difficulties. Cable [...]

HONG KONG -- Chinese authorities green-lighted changes at the country's media regulators, but those changes are not likely to put an end to internal squabbling. Reports from China's state-run media [...]

HONG KONG - The economic downswing here has had a marked impact on monopoly pay television operator Cable TV, with subscription levels stagnating and parent company Wharf Holdings expecting the [...]

HONG KONG -As Hong Kong marked the first anniversary of the handover of sovereignty from the United Kingdom to China, a loose confederation of US.-based and local interests have unveiled [...]

At press time, Indonesian direct-to-home provider Indovision was still scheduled to relaunch its service this past weekend, despite the country's violent civil unrest and financial turmoil. Indovision was slated to [...]

Blacking out channels in the Pacific Rim as a means of negotiating better rates is certainly not a practice limited to Indian operators. Perhaps the most notorious operator that implements [...]