acquisition by a 21st Century Fox predecessor of PCCW. The Walt Disney Company has announced to officially shutting down 18 of their pay TV channels on Friday, 1 October 2021 as Disney prioritized the rollout for Disney+ across Asian territories (or Disney+ Hotstar for Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand). Mentioned pay TV channels include Fox Sports network, in which at the time, they broadcast Formula 1 and MotoGP along with all four major Grand Slams and most of UFC fights and Fox Movies network, which also include Fox Action Movies and Fox Family Movies, when Disney, Marvel Studios, and 20th Century films were absent following the acquisition. National Geographic, National Geographic Wild, Star Chinese Channel and Star Chinese Movies will remain on-air as most of Fox Sports Asia programming heading elsewhere after the closure, such as SPOTV which replaced the main Fox Sports channel on launch while also aired the remainder of 2021 MotoGP World Championship, awhile latest Walt Disney, Marvel and 20th Century films were released through Disney+ (or Disney+ Hotstar). General entertainment contents which has been aired on Fox and Fox Life are either moved to Disney+ or, following the shutdown, through Fox's rival channels such as Lifetime (which Disney partly-owned the channel via A&E Networks), AXN, Rock Entertainment, TrueVisions (True Series), Now TV (Now Studio), among others. This caused some of their employees, including Singapore-based marketing leads Daniel Tan and Shoba Martin to leave the company following the pay TV operation shutdown, awhile at the same time, this decision has been criticized due to poor Internet connectivity in some areas and also got no plans to rollout Disney+ for other smaller regions. Meanwhile in Taiwan, Disney Channel has officially closed on New Year's Day 2022 as Disney contents relocated to Disney+ permanently. Meanwhile at the same time, both Fox Movies and Fox rebrand themselves as Star Movies Gold (which, unlike Star Movies HD, has different movie lineups and using branding from the first incarnation) and Star World respectively. This marked the only country with Disney channels operating under the Star brand alongside currently existed Star Chinese Movies and Star Chinese Channel. List of channels provided Current The Walt Disney Company (Taiwan) Ltd. Star Chinese Channel Taiwan – a 24-hour Taiwanese Mandarin entertainment channel available only in Taiwan. It is one of the five original Star TV channels when it launched on 21 October 1991. It currently broadcasts on