Eurovision Asia Live: Inaugural competition underway as world’s biggest song contest heads to Bangkok

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The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Asia will see entries from 11 nations compete for first place.

These are Bhutan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.

Each of them hosted their own national selection television show to choose their song for the inaugural competition.

Notable shows in this year’s competition include Asia’s three richest countries, China, India and Japan.

For China and Japan at least, negotiations for both to compete have passed the production deadline for this year’s competition, the series’ executive producer, Assaf Blecher, told the Guardian last week.

However, Blecher added that he was “very, very optimistic” about their participation in next year’s competition.