So this is what is really fueling the cycle, is that ... "They're just being able to reach fewer people, and the 18-to-49 demographic is (declining) even faster than the decline in pay TV. collapse of linear TV as an advertising vehicle."

Although Smit accepts concerns that shares in many technology companies are overpriced, he believes his approach means the fund steers clear of those businesses where share prices have got ahead of themselves.

Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.

But rights groups are still pressuring FIFA and Qatar to dig into their pockets to compensate South Asian workers who died or were injured during the building frenzy since the tournament was awarde

Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.

"While the strategic shift may cannibalize its existing market - particularly at the $9.99 tier - it's a great move in this inflationary environment, where households continue to rationalize their streaming choices," said Fred Boxa, associate director of consulting firm Arthur D.

Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.

Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.

Oct 19 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc upended the global entertainment industry about a dozen years ago with a streaming video service that rendered network television programming schedules and movie screening times all but irrelevant.

While fans await director James Gunn's return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special and Guardians of the Galaxy 3, it seems he's not quite done with the DC Extended Universe yet.

Netflix Co-Chief Executive Reed Hastings said that insight dawned on him after listening recently to former Disney CEO Bob Iger describe traditional TV as marching toward a precipice. As TV's audience shrinks, it becomes less attractive for advertisers - and a plum target for Netflix to disrupt.

The proceeds were invested in Dutch company ASML, a provider of equipment to the semiconductor industry. Smit's response was to offload the fund's holding in Tencent. 'The risk premium was too high,' he says.

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If Netflix can pull it off, revenue from the ad-supported version of the service and from a coming charge to subscribers for sharing their accounts, may well make up for any shortfall from a lower-priced streaming tier, said Haris Anwar, a senior analyst with Investing.com.

The palm tree-styled street lamps and neon office blocks that line the highway from the expanded international airport to central Doha will be an instant sign to the million-plus incoming fans that the first World Cup in an Arab nation is going to be a glit

But with Qatar's organisers desperate to convince the world of the event's lasting legacy -- clouded by a corruption investigation, and criticism of Qatar's rights record and even of the use of stadium air-conditioning -- more cost

Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the data in 1949.

SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.

China would need to spend at least 5% of its annual GDP to create incentives for couples to have more children, including education subsidies, preferential mortgage rates, tax breaks, equal paternity and maternity leave, as well as the construction of more childcare centres, it added.

"There are families that have been left in debt because of the workers who moved to Qatar to build this infrastructure and died. We can at least put it right before the World Cup starts," said Rothna Begum of the Human Rights Watch campa