Participating hotels will be hiring more Chinese-speaking front desk staff and adding Chinese language TV channels.
He was in London to discuss an English-language TV mini-series based on his detective hero, Erast Fandorin.
In a recent breakthrough, the debut show of a Chinese-language TV drama serial had a gay storyline.
The U.S. opened to her in 1986, when she appeared in an interview on Chinese-language TV in Houston.
It comes just weeks after communications regulator Ofcom said the future of English language TV broadcasting in Wales looked bleak.
Mr. Assange recently began hosting a television show on the Moscow-based English-language TV channel Russia Today, which is funded by the Kremlin.
"The Israelis, justifiably, have to guard against the transfer of advanced weaponry to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah, " Obama told the Spanish-language TV station Telemundo.
Meanwhile, the Arabic-language TV network Al Arabiya aired an audiotape Wednesday, purportedly from deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein urging Iraqis to resist U.S. forces.
In Westminster Hall there are two general debates - one on the 30th anniversary of the Welsh-language TV broadcaster S4C, and one on the military justice system.
Because she, and nearly all her relatives, had not fought for the right to run a Kurdish language TV station, or have a school teach in Kurdish.
In the tape, aired Sunday in part on Arabic-language TV network Al-Jazeera, the speaker repeatedly blasts a "crusader-Zionist war" against Islam, citing other activities in Chechnya and Somalia.
On Urdu-language TV news channels Dawn News and Geo News, it was very low in the running order this morning, and it is absent altogether from Urdu-language newspapers.
With potentially more lightly regulated non-EU markets like China and India crying out for American-style English-language TV, the UK's Anglo-American press barons see only problems in a more integrated Europe.
As part of what was described as the "democratic opening, " the Turkish state established a Kurdish-language TV channel for the first time and eased bans on Kurdish language education in schools.
His Justice and Development Party, or AKP, also made a number of overtures toward the Kurds, relaxing bans on Kurdish language education, appearing to apologize for past discriminatory policies and launching a state Kurdish-language TV station.
There's an unusual joint session of the Welsh Affairs and Culture, Media and Sport Committees for a joint pre-appointment hearing with Huw Jones, the preferred candidate for new Chair of S4C, the Welsh language TV channel which was brought under the BBC's organisational umbrella after running into financial difficulties.
When it comes to mediums, Spanish language network TV and cable television registered the biggest gains, up 24% and 13%, respectively, for the first half of the year.
With the arrival of a CNN producer to run Al Hurra, the US-funded Arabic-language satellite TV channel has become "more like Al Jazeera, " Joel Mowbray writes in the Wall Street Journal.
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People in the Middle East will still have access to most of the channels operated by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (Irib) - including English-language news service, Press TV, and Arabic-language al-Alam - but they will no longer be available in Europe except via the internet.
An international English-language satellite news TV, RT, is state-funded and aims to present "global news from a Russian perspective".
And it does so in a dumbed-down Esperanto that its audience can't fail to understand -- the universal language of commercial TV sitcoms, with their constrained cultural vocabulary and their subtext of harmlessness: Don't be offended, none of this really means anything, it's just a goof about a lot of dumb stuff going down around us.
Another worry: the government's decision in November to allow Cantonese-language broadcasts by STAR TV.
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The Chinese are creating TV networks, pouring millions into English-language newspapers, leasing radio stations on all continents and broadcasting TV news to a worldwide audience in six languages.
Viewers may be curious just to hear Al Jazeera America, which will have access to millions of U.S. homes now that the traditional Arabic-language network this week acquired Current TV, once owned by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and others.
On his most recent trip, he stopped in Shenzhen to confirm that he had lined up nearly every major Chinese computer manufacturer behind his company's "Venus project, " a combination of software and hardware that lets VCD players and other, similar devices display Chinese-language Internet content on an ordinary TV set.
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But Alkarim Jivani, Time Out's TV editor said their second language could make the other contestants "pick on" them.
Observers say the company has struggled to establish its mostly English-language content in the region's TV and Internet markets.
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