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THR's complete coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games begins on opening day. Also read our lead-up "Road to Beijing" series covering all world media preparations.
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China has launched a crackdown on Web sites as the country enters a politically sensitive year, with officials accusing search engines including Baidu and Google of spreading pornography and vulgarity.
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China last week approved long-awaited licenses for next-generation mobile networks, whetting investor appetites with the promise of major new orders for equipment makers and revenue for network operators.
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Tsui Hark will direct Andy Lau in the period martial arts suspense thriller "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" in Hong Kong and China beginning in May, production company Huayi Brothers said.
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For the fourth time in five stanzas, "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" won the No. 1 overseas boxoffice spot during the first weekend of 2009 thanks to an estimated $32.2 million from 6,771 screens in 60 territories.
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China Mobile jumped more than 3% on Friday, helping extend gains in the broader market, after China approved the issuance of licenses for next-generation mobile networks.
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Beijing is building a complex of 32 theaters dedicated to putting on musicals, state media said Tuesday, calling it the country's answer to Broadway.
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A Korean remake, the latest from Chinese director Zhang Yuan and an animated tale from the Czech Republic are among the 36 selections for the next CineMart.
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In a bid to expand into non-Internet advertising, Sina Corp., operator of China's biggest Web portal, has agreed to buy Focus Media's digital outdoor ad networks in a deal valued at $1.37 billion in stock.
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Western and Hong Kong news Web sites, including that of the New York Times, experienced censorship at the hands of the Chinese government last week in an apparent reversal of the open-media policy widely touted in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics.
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NBC will relive some of its finest hours of 2008 with a primetime special about the Beijing Olympics on Dec. 27 with the two-hour "Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony: TV Event of the Year."
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Leading Asian independent label Rock Records has renewed and expanded its exclusive sales and distribution agreement with Universal Music in a deal which will see Taiwan-based Rock's catalog handled by Universal in mainland China.
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China's foreign ministry said Tuesday that the country was within its rights to block Web sites with content illegal under Chinese law, including sites that referred to China and Taiwan as two separate countries.
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Broadcaster STAR said Thursday that Cheah Chee Kong, known in the industry as CheeK, would start as its executive vp of Chinese-language programming in Hong Kong in January.
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MTV has promoted Indra Suharjono to executive vp and managing director of MTV Networks in Southeast Asia and Greater China with immediate effect, succeeding outgoing regional head Amit Jain, who will focus on special projects for MTVNI.
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GDC Technology has signed nonexclusive agreements with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures International and Universal Pictures International to deploy digital cinema across Asia.
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A new company founded by a team of executives from Warner Bros.' defunct China cinema unit and backed by U.S.-based Entertainment Properties Trust plans to invest $50 million with a joint venture partner to build multiplex cinemas in China.
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Embarrassed by a lip-synching child who sang at the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony, Chinese authorities are ordering performers not to fake it during the country's biggest television show of the year.
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Investment funds of Wall Street banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and private equity giant Bain Capital plan to invest at least a combined $30 million in a Chinese movie distributor soon, chairman of the distributor Poly Bona said.
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Youku.com, a leading Chinese video Web site, has gotten into the news business, syndicating video news content from 28 national and provincial television networks on its new Youku News Channel.
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BEIJING -- Kylie Minogue, who went from soap actress to become one of the world's most famous female recording artists, wowed fans Monday at her first performance here with an electric show.
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PARIS -- French advertising giant Publicis on Tuesday announced the latest in a series of acquisitions in China as it looks to boost its presence in fast-growing emerging markets.
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BEIJING -- No matter how long the unemployment lines got during the Great Depression, cinemas kept operating. That's what Jimmy Wu and theater owners throughout Asia are banking on as the exhibition industry enters an uncertain 2009.
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HONG KONG -- China has reversed its decision to import a hit Taiwanese film that highlights Japan's 50-year colonial rule over the island because it may be offensive to nationalist sentiment on the Chinese mainland, news reports said.
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Just ahead of World AIDS Day Monday, a Belgian TV journalist and his crew reporting on the spread of the disease in China were assaulted and robbed by county officials in Central China, highlighting the ongoing difficulty Beijing has enforcing official media openness begun around the Olympics.
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BEIJING -- A newspaper published by China's ruling Communist Party is blasting the latest Guns N' Roses album as an attack on the Chinese nation.
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