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Tencent Bid To Expand Gaming Outside China And Gain Foothold In Cryptocurrency Industry

Tencent Mulling Bid for Owner of Bitstamp & Korbit Reuters reports that Tencent is actively pursuing co-investors to purchase the South Korea-based NXC Corp, the company behind gaming firm Nexon. Kim Jung-ju reportedly wants to sell a 98.64 percent share in the company that he co-founded in 1994. That stake, which is held by Kim and his wife, is worth an estimated $7.1 billion to $8.9 billion. Though best known for its gaming empire, NXC owns multiple cryptocurrency exchanges. In late 2017, the firm acquired a majority stake in Korbit — then South Korea’s…

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Music Press Asia interviews Bernie Cho, President of DFSB Kollective, Korea at Music Matters, Singapore

Korea Insights: Inconsistency In Korea’s Music Chart Systems

Music Press Asia interviews Bernie Cho, Presideent of DFSB Kollective at Music Matters [Part 2: Korea Insights, Interview With Bernie Cho, President – DFSB Kollective, Korea] What happens when there’s 3 separate music charts nationwide? Korea has seen some of Asia’s largest musical export in 2018 and it doesn’t seem to be showing and signs of…

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Southeast Asia LIVE Promoter UnUsUaL Entertainment And Star Planet Partner To Host Wang Leehom’s World Tour

MIA has partnered with Southeast Asia’s top music promoter UnUsUaL Entertainment – a mm2 entertainment company [Singapore] and StarPlanet [Malaysia] for the Singapore- and Malaysia-leg of Leehom’s ‘Descendants of the Dragon 2060’ World Tour. Leehom’s World Tour began in Beijing last year, makes its way to Singapore [Jan,5 2019] before heading to Malaysia come March 16, 2019. Both UnUsUaL Entertainment…

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Star Planet and UnUsUaL Entertainment partners to tour Wang Leehom in Malaysia.
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Wang Leehom ‘Descendants of the Dragon 2060’ World Tour Returns to Malaysia

With 62 mil fans on Weibo and 3.7 mil Facebook followers, Wang Leehom one of Taiwan’s most successful musical export in the region, is now back on tour. The show backed by production team who has worked on the Grammy Awards featuring spaceship, LED lighting, holograms, animated movies and choreography. Set to take place at Stadium Merdeka, Leehom is collaborating…

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MITEC will be hosting KL Jamm's very first music festival in Kuala Lumpur.

KRU Group Announce Festival Partners & Line-Up

The festival curators at KL Jamm make bold move bringing back Sheila Majid, Zainal Abidin, OAG and new generations of music makers to host new festival to attract 15,000. How would you imagine Malaysia’s music scene start in 2019? As Malaysia propel towards a new administration and government, there’s more good news taking place in the music scene. Malaysia is…

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VR and AR companies have coasted 2018 with largely mediocre products. Any more hype and profitability may come from gaming for now.

Asia’s Tech Trends For The Music Industry in 2019

With Asia’s growing demand for a more organised music economy, companies and artists are pushing the boundaries of fan engagement, live performances, creation, and music management. Asia is definitely embracing 2019 by adopting tech trends across the music industry. Music Recognition Technology [MRT] or Audio Fingerprinting While this is no longer a new technology, MRT is becoming more efficient when…

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MTV Asia’s Yo! MTV Raps Special Win ‘Best Music Or Dance Programme’ Award

MTV Asia’s successful roll out of Yo! MTV Raps Special released June last year has been gaining momentum over the last few months which soon culminated to a frenzy when the programme won ‘Best Music Or Dance Programme’ award at Asian Academy Creative Awards. MTV Asia was among seven nominees from the region in the same category, at the awards…

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Korean music is just about to see the fruit of a government funded entertainment initiative to launch the Korean music pop culture out of Korea.

How Is Korea’s Music Export Going To Look Like in 2019

Part 1. Perhaps, one of the latest news surrounding the K-pop world is YG Entertainment’s deal with Interscope Records. The deal is some of the most telling of what’s happening to the demand for Asian artists, K-pop artists in particular – YG has signed a deal with Interscope to cover promotion and distribution outside of Asia. This marked a significant…

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Hong Kong’s Prominence As Entertainment & Food Hub

Hong Kong has been a cultural tourist hot spot as long as we can remember. Food and entertainment live side by side – a culmination that sums up the DNA of Hong Kong lifestyle. Bowie Tsang (daughter of famous Hong Kong actor Eric Tsang) and Alan Ko (son of legendary stuntman/actor Blackie Ko) have recently revisited places in Hong Kong…

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Wired Music Week Unveils Phase 1 Line-Up 2019

Beh founded Wired Music Week – one of Malaysia’s very first music conference focused on establishing a more vibrant electronic music landscape in Malaysia. Last May, apart from the panel discussions and workshops, WMW also hosted a no-frill exclusive meet-up session between labels and unsigned artists and music producers. “Beh’s approach is the culmination of a rapidly growing demand for…

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