Eurovision Song Contest launches first-ever Asia edition
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“Eurovision Song Contest launches first-ever Asia edition”
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— The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (E…
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— Eurovision Song Contest Asia is set to be an international song competition modeled after the Eurovision Song Contest, in which countries of the Asia-Pacific region are set to compete in. The inaugura…
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— Broadcasters from fifty-two countries have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest since it started in 1956, with winning songs coming from twenty-seven of those countries. The contest, organised …
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“Broadcasters from 10 countries in the region, including South Korea, Bhutan, Thailand and the Philippines have confirmed that they will be taking part”
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— The Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) (abbr. CPB (MLM)) is an underground communist party in Bhutan. It aims to start a New Democratic Revolution and overthrow the Bhutanese monarchy…
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— Eastern South Asia is a subregion of South Asia. It includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India (specifically East India and Northeast India), and Nepal. Geographically, it lies between the Ea…
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— Eurovision Song Contest Asia is set to be an international song competition modeled after the Eurovision Song Contest, in which countries of the Asia-Pacific region are set to compete in. The inaugura…
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“According to the contest's website, which lists the participating countries, there are 'more to follow'”
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— Druk Dra (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྒྲ།, romanized: 'Brug Sgra, [ʈuk̚˩ ʈ͡ʂa˩˨]), also known as Road to Eurovision Asia, is a Bhutanese contest organised to decide the country's representatives at the Eurovisio…
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— Eurovision is a pan-European television telecommunications network owned and operated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It was officially founded in 1954 in Geneva, Switzerland, and its first …
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— Eurovision Song Contest Asia is set to be an international song competition modeled after the Eurovision Song Contest, in which countries of the Asia-Pacific region are set to compete in. The inaugura…
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“First held in 1956, Eurovision has grown into the world's longest running international music competition”
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“The competition has supercharged the careers of some of the world's most famous acts, such as Swedish pop group Abba and Canadian singer Celine Dion, who represented Switzerland in 1988”
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“Around 163 million people tuned in to last year's contest”
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“A number of countries are boycotting the contest this year, set to take place in Vienna in May, over Israel's participation”
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“Russia has been banned from entering the contest since 2022, following its invasion of Ukraine. As a result, Moscow relaunched its own international song contest, known as Intervision”
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“Since the 2000s, there have been multiple attempts to create an Asian version of the iconic contest, but none of those previous efforts bore fruit”
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“In a statement published by EBU, Chuwit Sirivajjakul, a senior official at the Thailand Tourism Authority, said he thought the host city of Eurovision Asia should 'of course' be Bangkok”
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“The Asia edition of the contest is organised by the European Broadcasting Union alongside Los Angeles-based entertainment company Voxovation and the Thailand-based S2O Productions”
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