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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
General Electric ( GE - news - people )'s cable channels, Spanish-language Telemundo network and NBC's TV distribution units in addition NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios.
And Roberto Irineu dangles the possibility of TV coproductions with another Spanish-language media group.
Turkey's privately owned Su TV recently launched an Armenian-language news programme.
And Roberto Irineu ponders TV coproductions with another Spanish-language media group.
Nonetheless, as a TV viewer, you could read the body language all night.
Credit satellite TV and the Internet for spreading the English language.
Mr Brown, who is married with two children, said that he always loved the original TV series and first became interested in the language after discovering there was a Klingon dictionary.
GlobalTV, a new product for international cable and satellite TV operators, allows near-instantaneous translation of English-language programming, said Larry Silverman, the company's chief executive officer, in an interview with IDG News Service Wednesday.
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