By Andy Fry December was a good month for streaming platforms bearing blockbuster movies. Among top performers over the holiday season was Top Gun: Maverick, which broke viewing records on Paramount+. Also popular was Netflix’s Glass Onion, A Knives Out Mystery, which was released in the few days before Christmas....

By Ron Chen, Bureau Chief, Asia Moscow kicks off the signature festive season event Journey to Christmas, which incorporates festive magical places, must-see dynamic destinations, decorations, lighting, traditional winter sports activities, and meeting Father Frost and Snegurochka, or the Snow Maiden. The festival will last until January 8. The large-scale...

By Tyler Smith Today marks 50 years since the United Nations designated 5 June as World Environment Day, which advocates sustainability and environmental moderation within every facet of life. Under this year’s theme ‘Only One Earth’, the same title used in the original 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment...

By Stuart Thomson UK digital-terrestrial free-to-view platform Freeview has passed the milestone of 60,000 hours of on-demand free content. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Freeview said it had increased its on-demand offering by 20,000 hours since April. Most Freeview viewers will have full access to the enhanced ITV on-demand offering, ITVX...

By Colin Wood After a long tenure of 12-and-a-half years as state chief information security officer, Pennsylvania’s Erik Avakian signed off Friday to take an undisclosed job in the private sector. In an interview with StateScoop, Avakian looked back at his time as the state’s top cybersecurity official, a period...

By Ghalia Taman In a mere four hours, Saudi swimmer, Mariam Binladen, not only had to face the long journey of swimming an entire 9km in the open sea, but she also had to do it while knowing that there are sharks looming beneath the water. In spite of this,...

By Andy Fry Fox Entertainment’s AVOD/FAST streaming platform Tubi has broken through the 200 FAST channel milestone this week. Acquired by Fox in 2020 for US$440m, the platform has emerged as a major player in ad-funded stremaing alongside rival studio-backed services such as Peacock and Pluto, as well as challenger...

The first-ever fully electric commuter plane “Alice” from Eviation Aircraft has successfully completed its maiden flight at Moses Lake, Washington, USA. Alice lifted off yesterday at 4:10 pm CEST from Grant County International Airport (MWH), flying for a total of eight minutes and reaching an altitude of 3,500 feet. CEO...

By Godson Umejiego, USA and Ron Chen, ASEAN Region Entos Pharmaceuticals (Entos), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing genetic medicines with its Fusogenix proteolipid vehicle (PLV) nucleic acid delivery platform, and Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme (CNRFP), the Burkina Faso site team lead by Dr. GansaneAdama,...

By Anton Usov This year the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of its operations in Kazakhstan. What began as a small representative office in Almaty, the country’s largest city, has become the biggest continuous banking operation for the EBRD in Central...