Media

Malaysia - Prashun Dutt, media planner and independent advisor to The Sun and Utusan group, said the best minds in media planning used to come from Malaysia but standards have dropped.

Hong Kong - Media Chinese International, formerly known as Ming Pao media, is in the process of building one of China's largest media corporations, following two major acquisitions.

Hong Kong - The South China Morning Post has launched an Olympic micro-site aimed at increasing online eyeballs from overseas readers as well as provide a platform for marketers to advertise on the site.

Malaysia - OMD has maintained top ranking in The Gunn Report for media agencies, outscoring its nearest competitor by more than twice as many points in the latest round of competition.

Beijing - MTV is making its way to the Beijing Olympic's, after being named the only approved international music TV channel for the Olympic Village.

Beijing - Xinhua Finance Media has launched a weekly Chinese financial newspaper called The Investor Journal, aimed at the retail investor market in Mainland China.

Hong Kong - 3cm Media, publishers of Prestige magazine, will expand into the business sector from October, launching a business and lifestyle magazine called Power.

Global - Intel Corporation has handed its US$300 million global media account to Omnicom Group's OMD, beating off Starcom and incumbent Universal McCann in the process.

Singapore - Singapore scores 41 shortlisted entries at this year's Clio Awards, with Saatchi & Saatchi scoring top rank with 21 entries, and Ogilvy with 10.

Malaysia - Malaysian Airlines System (MAS) tops Air Asia and Singapore Airlines in Reader's Digest's survey of most trusted brands in Malaysia.

Malaysia - Online news website The Malaysian Insider will be getting a new look within the next three months to cater for advertisements, CEO Sreedhar Subramaniam said. Since its launch in February, the website has received over 500,000 unique visitors and 1.5 million page hits per month.

Hong Kong - Turner Entertainment Network Asia has named Jeremy Carr as vice president of regional entertainment advertising sales, after Soumitra Saha was promoted to head Turner last December.

Hong Kong - The final episode of D.I.E has taken the top spot in this week's highest rating programs in Hong Kong, according to research from CSM Media.

Hong Kong - Asia Television has tasked MindShare to promote its newly launched digital channels as the free-to-air network reports strong advertising revenue on both its Home and World channels.

Hong Kong - i-Cable has struck a two-year deal with World Sports Group to broadcast the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong - Just months after acquiring The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch has initiated some major changes and flagged the possibility of launching a business channel via News Corp's Star TV network.

Malaysia - A new English language business radio channel will be launched in July this year.

Singapore - CH 8’s new drama about the discovery of a treasure map and the insuing betrayal it causes has slotted in straight at number one in this week’s TV Top 20 leaving Buzzing Cashier to fight for second place again, according to Taylor Nelson Sofres.

Hong Kong - Publishing group Rubicon Communications will launch a series of viral marketing campaigns to support tomorrows launch of Time Out Hong Kong.

Hong Kong - The decline of print readership has been widely circulated, but the reading habits of Asia's business elite remains strong.

Malaysia - Asia Media Monitors opened its SEA headquarters in Kuala Lumpur and the operations will act as a digital news hub for all media sources the company monitors in the region.

Global - BBC has changed the name of its BBC World channel to BBC World News in a bid to better convey the channel's content which over the years, it says, has moved towards its current focus of news and programming.

Malaysia - English and Malay dailies have dropped their print readership in absolute numbers from 2006 to 2007, a report by Synovate shows.

Global - Mindshare has embarked on a global restructuring of its business by fully integrating its services such as ROI modelling, communications strategy, sports sponsorship and content creation.

Hong Kong - Television Broadcast Limited (TVB) has joined hands with seven companies to launch a series of Olympics-themed events, programming and TVCs in an effort to promote the Beijing Olympics.

Regional - The Thomson Corporation has completed its acquisition of Reuters Group today forming Thomson Reuters and has appointed Michael Peace as MD for Asia, to be based in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong - PCCW has extended free wireless broadband service to indoor and outdoor areas of the public rental housing estates while granting Wi-Fi internet access to all Hong Kong government service websites and will be launching marketing campaigns to promote the initiative.

Singapore - The AdMax Network, an advertising network for specialty content websites, has inked an exclusive partnership with MochiAds - which is part of Mochi Media - and is an ad network for casual games.

Malaysia - The Home Ministry has not renewed the publication permit of Makkal Osai (The People's Voice), the Tamil daily which has a circulation of 52,000 copies.

Hong Kong - Pixel Media has seen its 2007 operating profits soar over 76%, as online ad spend nears maturity in the Asian markets.