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SCMP Reporter

The numbers have spoken.
In a year that saw Apple releasing three new iPhones, Huawei launching its triple-lens P20 Pro, and digital entertainment/streaming becoming more prevalent, statistics suggests that online readers are more interested in stories about Netflix, Chinese smartphone brand Vivo and … whether kaki is a Singaporean or Malay word.

1. Marvel’s Iron Fist
Will Colleen Wing, played by British actress Jessica Henwick, be the first Asian leading lady in Iron Fist, one of the Marvel comic book adaptations showing on Netflix? More than 24,000 clicked onto this story to find out.
Read the full story here.
2. Viral video
The video of Ben Sin’s first impressions of the Vivo V9 is the most viewed in 2018.


3. Bragging rights
This is not exactly a consumer tech story … but it did start the heated debate on whether kaki (friend) – a word that our gadget writer Paul Mah used to test Google Home – was Singaporean English or Malay?
Read the full story here .
4. Netflix in Asia
Crime thriller Sacred Games, the first original Netflix series from India, also garnered much interest.
Read the full story here.
Why cheating in online games is so widespread in China
5. So bad it’s good
Do people want to read about the world’s worst video game – one that is set in Hong Kong to boot? Yes, they do.
Read the full story here.


Made in Sabah: Malaysia’s indigenous language film Sinakagon to make Netflix debut

All of Us Are Dead creator on South Korea’s webtoon boom and his Netflix success

In K-drama casting news, Lee Jung-jae and Lim Ji-yeon eyed to lead Petty Love, and more

Watch K-dramas to improve your mental health, therapist says, and some viewers agree

Netflix

Netflix, Chinese smartphone brand Vivo, and world’s worst video game, among top digital hits of 2018

A word that SCMP gadget writer Paul Mah used to test Google Home set off a heated debate as to whether its origins was Singaporean English or Malay.

***PLEASE CLEAR THE COPYRIGHTS BEFORE REUSE*** Marvel's Iron Fist

Marvel resurrects Iron Fist on the back of martial arts boom

Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand in Iron Fist. Photo: Netflix

This handout image shows a stills of Iron Fist. Credit: Netflix [16JANUARY2017 FEATURES DIGITAL]

This handout image shows Finn Jones in Iron Fist. Credit: Netflix [16JANUARY2017 FEATURES DIGITAL]

This handout image shows Tom Pelphrey, Jessica Stroup, and Finn Jones in Iron Fist. Credit: Netflix [16JANUARY2017 FEATURES DIGITAL]

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2018 in review

Netflix, Chinese smartphone brand Vivo, and world’s worst video game, among top digital hits of 2018

This year saw Apple release three new iPhones, Huawei launch its triple-lens P20 Pro and streaming services reach new heights We round-up the best articles of the last 12 months in the digital world

This year saw Apple release three new iPhones, Huawei launch its triple-lens P20 Pro and streaming services reach new heights

We round-up the best articles of the last 12 months in the digital world