Miral Fahmy wrote an article “Asian youths can’t live without TV, Web: poll” based on a recent Synovate Young Asians annual survey that polled 13,000 people aged between 8 and 24 from 12 countries across Asia*.
Notable quotes
Most spend on average 10 hours a day watching TV, on the Internet, reading magazines or listening to the radio.
Nearly a third of young Asians said they plan their day around their favorite TV programs, hoping to catch every episode, the survey revealed. Up to a quarter said they could not live without the Internet, and two-thirds said they must listen to music daily.
35 percent of youths had increased their Internet usage in the past year. Close to a quarter had spent more time watching TV while 34 percent said that they had devoted more time to listening to music.
https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/asian-youths-cant-live-without-tv-web-poll-idUSTRE52N1IB
*Countries included in survey – China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, S. Korea, Taiwan, Thailand & Vietnam.
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