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East meets West, television meets 'video'
Richard Marks reports from the first ever asi Asia-Pacific Television Symposium and is left wondering: what's in a name? A lot actually.
Travelling to Asia can feel like flying into the future - quite literally, given the need to put the clocks forward, but also in terms of global demographic trends. According to some projections, fully two-thirds of the world's affluent middle class will be based in the region by 2030. Major cities are being redeveloped at a quite dizzying rate as skyscrapers shoot up as quickly as blades of grass in the Spring. Certainly the Singapore skyline was almost unrecognisable from the last time I visited six years ago