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Summary Until now, only Australia, New Zealand and Japan had their own iTunes stores.
Apple is rolling out its iTunes online store to Hong Kong, Taiwan and 10 other Asian countries in a broad push to sell music and video to more users in the companys fastest growing region.The company said Wednesday that Singapore, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia and Laos will also get their own iTunes stores. But China, which accounts for a big part of Apples revenues, was not included.Previously, Apple fans in these territories could access the companys App Store to download applications for their iPods, iPhones and iPads. Now they can use locally issued credit cards to download music from the stores 20-million-song library as well as buy or rent movies.
