China

G14 continue the debate on European salary caps, the National Football League (NFL)hold their Spring meeting in Houston, the deadline for bids to host the 2007 IAAF World Championships looms and the China Football Conference opens in Beijing ahead of the FIFA World Cup.

The International Gymnastics Federation Council meets in Tokyo to announce the venue for the 2003 Rythmic Gymnastics World Championships, the International Ice Hockey Federation hold their annual congress announcing the host city of the 2007 World Championships, the 47th General Assembly of FIBA Europe takes place in Ostende and the International Badminton Federation holds its AGM in Guangzhou in China.
Media

The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing is offering the commercial world 'a window into China' - according to a panel of expert speaking on day one of the SportBusiness 2002 conference in London.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Management company the World Famous Group has brokered the deal to take English Premier League soccer club Chelsea to China and Malaysia this summer, for a ten-day pre-season tour.
Events

The South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has expressed his concern that yesterday's tragic plane crash in the country could significantly affect the preparations for the soccer World Cup.
Business

United Airlines has agreed to sponsor the official website of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea, FIFAworldcup.com.
Stadia

In the build-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, the Chinese government is embarking on one of its biggest sporting projects to date.

Soccer officials in Japan, South Korea and China have agreed to a new East Asian club competition which will feature the league champions of each of the three countries.
Stadia

HOK Sport, the architect of the new Wembley Stadium, has won the contract to build a ground-breaking $250million (EUR283m) sports centre in the Jiangsu Province in China.
Media

The protracted World Cup rights negotiations between Kirch Sport and China Central Television (CCTV) have reached a historic conclusion.
Media

China's latest efforts to rid its domestic soccer competition of corruption have taken a new twist.

China made history when it won a place in this summer's FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea but most people just won't be able to afford to go.
Stadia

Beijing has reintroduced an old Communist Party practice of forcing officials to declare personal information as a part of a drive to hold a corruption-free Olympic Games in 2008.

Beijing has unveiled the latest plan to ensure the 2008 Olympic Games are not tarnished by tales of corruption.
Events

Chinese media firm Sina.com has launched the official website of the Chinese national soccer team.
Stadia

Consulting firm Sinclair Knight Merz, has secured a role as engineer on the HOK Sport-led team to design the main stadium and other venues for the 2005 China Games.

A suspected North Korean spy ship, sunk by the Japanese coastguard at the end of last year, may have been carrying weapons aimed at disrupting this summer's World Cup in Japan and South Korea, according to Agence France-Presse.

East Asian football associations are poised to form a regional governing body in the next week in a bid to increase their influence within the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Asian sources have said.