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AsiaOne
AsiaOne is Singapore's first pure play digital content platform, serving readers primarily in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. AsiaOne was first launched in 1995 by Singapore Press Holdings and is currently a joint venture between mm2 Asia and SPH Media Trust. On 5 June 2000, SPH AsiaOne Ltd was listed on the Singapore Exchange. It was delisted on 24 January 2002. AsiaOne was revamped in July 2021, focusing on being "Off Centre, On Trend", that is, offering the reader a fresh perspective of what's happening packaged in a relatable way that matters. The website is one of the top news and information websites in Singapore by readership. AsiaOne's won the Silver award for the Best News Website Or Mobile Service for its NewsLite service in 2021 at the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Asia 2021. Content AsiaOne initially started as a news aggregator covering news from across the Southeast Asian region. Today, over 90% of its content is organically created by a team of in-hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SPH Media Trust
SPH Media Trust (SMT), commonly known as SPH Media, is a media organisation with businesses in print, digital, radio, and outdoor media in Singapore. Legally a company limited by guarantee, it was incorporated on 19 July 2021, and begin establishment operation on 1 December 2021 after Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore Press Holdings Limited completed the transfer of its media business. It forms part of a duopoly on the mass media in Singapore, mass media of Singapore, with the other player being Mediacorp. SPH Media Trust has over 2,500 employees, including a team of approximately 1,000 journalists, including correspondents operating around the world. History Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPHL) was formed on 4 August 1984 through a merger of three organisations, The Straits Times Press Group, Singapore News and Publications Limited and Times Publishing Berhad. SPHL readership has stagnated since the early-2000s, as Singaporeans increasingly turned to online media for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mm2 Entertainment
mm2 Entertainment (a wholly owned subsidiary omm2 Asia Ltd is a Singaporean film production and distribution company. It has produced notable films include ''Ah Boys to Men'', ''The Lion Men'' and ''Long Long Time Ago'' series. Also, it has a presence in Hong Kong ( mm2 Hong Kong), Taiwan and China. The company also owned cinemas in Malaysia and Singapore. History mm2 was founded in Malaysia in 2008. In 2014, mm2 Asia became the first Singaporean film production company to be listed in the Singapore Exchange. In November 2017, mm2 Asia bought Cathay Organisation's eight cinemas for S$230 million. In August 2021, investment firm Kingsmead Properties entered into an agreement with mm2 Asia to purchase its Cathay cinema business for S$84.8 million which was to be completed by 31 December 2021. In January 2022, the deal was cancelled, Kingsmead Properties' deposit for the purchase was converted into newly issued mm2 shares. Productions Film *2010 ''Old Cow vs Tender Grass'' *201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mm2 Entertainment
mm2 Entertainment (a wholly owned subsidiary omm2 Asia Ltd is a Singaporean film production and distribution company. It has produced notable films include ''Ah Boys to Men'', ''The Lion Men'' and ''Long Long Time Ago'' series. Also, it has a presence in Hong Kong ( mm2 Hong Kong), Taiwan and China. The company also owned cinemas in Malaysia and Singapore. History mm2 was founded in Malaysia in 2008. In 2014, mm2 Asia became the first Singaporean film production company to be listed in the Singapore Exchange. In November 2017, mm2 Asia bought Cathay Organisation's eight cinemas for S$230 million. In August 2021, investment firm Kingsmead Properties entered into an agreement with mm2 Asia to purchase its Cathay cinema business for S$84.8 million which was to be completed by 31 December 2021. In January 2022, the deal was cancelled, Kingsmead Properties' deposit for the purchase was converted into newly issued mm2 shares. Productions Film *2010 ''Old Cow vs Tender Grass'' *201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, border with Thailand and Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, the country's largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government. The nearby Planned community#Planned capitals, planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital, which represents the seat of both the Government of Malaysia#Executive, executive branch (the Cabine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TikTok
TikTok, known in China as Douyin (), is a short-form video hosting service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 15 seconds to 10 minutes. TikTok is an international version of Douyin, which was released in the Chinese market in September 2016. It launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it became available worldwide only after merging with another Chinese social media service, Musical.ly, on 2 August 2018. TikTok and Douyin have almost the same user interface but no access to each other's content. Their servers are each based in the market where the respective app is available. The two products are similar, but their features are not identical. Douyin includes an in-video search feature that can search by people's faces for more videos of them and other features such as buying, booking hotels and making geo-tagged reviews. Since their launches, TikTok and Dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the List of most visited websites, second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's Google AdSens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dailymotion
Dailymotion is a French video-sharing technology platform owned by Vivendi. North American launch partners included Vice Media, Bloomberg and Hearst Digital Media. It is among the earliest known platforms to support HD (720p) resolution video. Dailymotion is available worldwide in 183 languages and 43 localised versions featuring local home pages and local content. History In March 2005, Benjamin Bejbaum and Olivier Poitrey founded the website, pooling €6,000 (US$9,271) from six individuals to start it. In September 2006, Dailymotion raised funds in collaboration with Atlas Ventures and Partech International. They raised €7 million, which was considered to be the most funds raised in 2006 from the French Web 2.0. In 2007 Dailymotion created ASIC, together with other companies in the sector. Dailymotion supports a high-definition video resolution of 720p since February 2008, making it one of the earliest known HD video platforms. October 2009, the French government inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Establishments In Singapore
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghanistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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