SportBusiness staff, Asia

The Malaysian Football League has agreed a ball supply deal with sporting goods brand Puma, starting this year and running until 2024

Indian digital sports media group Dream Sports has agreed a title sponsorship and media rights deal covering this month's European Cricket Championship, a new T10 tournament

Vietnam's Ministry of Finance is looking at a significant relaxation of restrictions on football betting in the country, according to government-run media outlet Voice of Vietnam

Australian streaming platform Sports Flick is now offline and its founder Dylan Azzopardi is being investigated by police over allegations of fraud, according to The Sydney Morning Herald

Uefa and Europe's top football clubs are set to oppose a plan by Fifa to run the World Cup every two years, according to news reports

Hong Kong's betting monopoly, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, reported record turnover of HK$279.7bn ($36bn/€30bn) in 2020-21, up 27.9 per cent on the previous, pandemic-disrupted year.

The Taliban, the new rulers of Afghanistan, have given the go-ahead for an upcoming visit to Australia by the Afghan men's national cricket team

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has launched a tender process to appoint two new franchise teams to the Indian Premier League from 2022

Vietnam's VBA basketball league has cancelled its 2021 season at the playoff stage due to the worsening Covid situation in the country

A new format of the Southern Hemisphere's Super Rugby club competition will launch in 2022, with two new Pacific Islands teams joining the existing five teams each from Australia and New Zealand