Asia News Network editors and executives at a roadshow in Singapore last Friday.—ANN/VNS Photo Singapore (ANN/VNS)- Asia News Network has set up an advertising office in Singapore to represent the 22 members from 19 Asian countries. Members also unveiled new media initiatives in a roadshow to leading regional advertising agencies last week. Up to 20 regional advertising executives based in Singapore were joined by 30 from Thailand to attend the one-day roadshow by ANN which were co-hosted with ETPL (Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd), Singapore-based technology transfer arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Knorex Pte Ltd, the developer of iSnap print-to-mobile technology. The theme of the event was “Advancing the Next Frontier of Asian Media”. At the event, ANN also signed a memorandum of understanding with ETPL to collaborate on projects and solutions aimed at the media and advertising industries. This will cover among other human language processing, mobile imaging, video processing and analytics. The participating ANN members were Thailand’s The Nation, Malaysia’s The Star, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Indonesia’s Jakarta Post , China Daily Asia-Pacific, The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun and Kantipur Group’s Kathmandu Post. The event was inaugurated by Felix Soh, Chairman of ANN and Editor of Singapore Press Holdings’ New Media; ANN Executive Director Pana Janviroj; ETPL Executive Vice President Woo Kwai Merng and Knorex CEO Justin Choo. Nation Group’s advertising director, Nutvara Seangwarin, said the roadshow opened up knowledge and interest about Nation’s regional reach through ANN among both regional…
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