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Catch up with the latest news from our Press Room.
CNN International today announces the launch of CNNMobile.com, its most comprehensive mobile news site to-date across 49 countries and territories in Asia Pacific. It rounds out CNN's 360 degree mobile solution offering, integrating live streaming mobile TV, video on demand content, and SMS breaking news alert services. Available direct to consumers free of charge*, it is custom designed to guarantee user-friendly navigation and interaction ensuring that the network's award-winning content can be assessed in a matter of seconds.
Dubbed "Asia's Bjork", Sa Dingding sings in Mandarin, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and her own self-created language. Already hugely popular in China, she is now poised to crack world music: her first album sold more than two million copies and scooped a prestigious award in Britain, which saw her performing at Royal Albert Hall in London. This weekend's TALK ASIA follows Sa backstage on her tour of European music festivals and visits her recording and design studios in Beijing - while host Anjali Rao listens to an exclusive sneak preview of her soon-to-be-released new album.
Born in Taiwan, singer-songwriter turned actor-director Jay Chou's big break came when he entered a local talent show. Today his unique musical style has fans all over the world with his last album selling more than three million copies a month in Asia alone. TALK ASIA visits the award-winning 29-year-old Chou at his Mr. J restaurant in Taipei.
Nick Wrenn, CNN's managing editor for Europe, Middle East & Africa, has been appointed to the new position of vice president, CNN International Digital Services. Based in Atlanta, Wrenn will report to Tony Maddox, executive vice president and managing director of CNN International.
Half Egyptian, half Chinese, born in New Zealand, educated in the U.S. and the U.K. celebrity chef and food/travel show host Bobby Chinn often refers to himself as an ‘ethnic mutt'. On this weekend's ‘TALK ASIA', the Hanoi restaurateur and TV chef takes Anjali Rao into his kitchen, discusses his multicultural background, his transition from Wall Street trader to restaurant owner and TV personality and talks about other food show hosts Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and Anthony Bourdain.
Guy Ritchie's new film RocknRolla paints an interesting portrait of modern London, in a story that pits the city's old school gangsters and geezers against a new school of Russian billionaires. This month's ‘MY CITY_MY LIFE' visits some of the movie's key locations - including one of London's most impressive buildings - Battersea Power station. The program sees how Ritchie's movie explores the wave of construction that has transformed London's skyline to a vista of cranes, and the potential dirty dealings that lie beneath.
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