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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.