PHILIPPINES: The Resorts World Manila’s (RWM) Newport Performing Arts Theater has been equipped with a Clear-Com FreeSpeak wireless system and Encore partyline intercoms to facilitate communications between its production staff. 

CHINA: Hong Kong-based Rightway Audio Consultants recently supplied a DiGiCo SD8 and SD8-24 console for the seventh Jazz Music Festival Shanghai.

ASIA: DPA Microphones’ 4088 cardioid headset microphones were recently used for Katy Perry’s California Dreams tour, which last week went to Jakarta, Indonesia and Pasay, Philippines.

JAPAN: Global electronics manufacturer TEAC Corporation and Onkyo Corporation have announced they have formed a strategic alliance which will see both companies acquire shares of the other’s stock.

WORLD: Executive director and CEO of InfoComm International Randal A. Lemke has announced his planned retirement at the end of 2012, capping off 16 years of service to the commercial audiovisual association. ‘It has been an honour to serve the needs of such an exciting and innovative industry these past years, and it’s with mixed feelings that I leave the wonderful team of professionals and close friends I have made here at InfoComm,’ stated Dr Lemke.

INDONESIA: Sumber Ria Sound recently provided the audio equipment for the Old and New Gala dinner at Mulia Hotel, Jakarta. The New Year celebration event was simultaneously held at three different locations within the five star hotel, which saw singers Brian McKnight and Keith Martin perform in the establishment’s Grand Ballroom and Cascade Lounge.