Havas Media Asia-Pacific is appointed as the global media AOR for Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, following a competitive pitch that included Starcom and OMD in its final stages. The account is worth $30 million per year, according to R3.

HTC appoints OMG to its $160 million global media planning and buying business. It is likely HTC will work with more than one of OMG’s media networks in order to avoid conflict with the group’s other clients, including Sony Mobile and Apple.

Bates Asia and CHI & Partners have joined forces to establish a new network that doubles the size of both agencies and spans 16 offices.

Wieden + Kennedy is appointed to handle creative duties for Shanghai Disneyland which is slated to open at the end of 2015.

Dentsu opens McgarryBowen’s first Asian office in Shanghai. The move follows the Japanese giant’s acquisition of the US agency in 2008.

Havas rebrands its MPG Media Contacts network as Havas Media, scrapping the 35-year-old media planning brand and aping the rebrand of its creative network to Havas Worldwide.

Getty Images launches The Feed, an application to showcase its images through social media by curating real-time collections of pictures connected to topics that are trending on Twitter.

Chris O’Donnell joins Posterscope Worldwide as its global commercial director based in Hong Kong, which marks the first global role outside of London for Posterscope.