Disney poised to take on Netflix as SE Asian roll out heralds brutal streaming wars
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US entertainment giant Disney is poised for a showdown with rival Netflix in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as the content provider rolls out its streaming platform in the region backed by a hiring drive to support the service.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A growing global push to safeguard nature by pledging to protect about a third of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 will fall short unless biodiversity-rich Southeast Asian nations get behind the ambitious proposal, environmentalists have warned.
Leaders of the G7 wealthy nations this month backed a coalition of about 60 countries that have already promised to conserve at least 30% of their land and oceans by 2030 (30x30) to curb climate change and the loss of plant and animal species.
Cambodia is the only Southeast Asian nation to have signed up to the goal so far, although it has been endorsed by countries in other parts of Asia-Pacific, including Japan, Pakistan and the Maldives.
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