China

Basketball
Events

The coronavirus has begun to impact the sports industry with Olympic qualifying tournaments in football, boxing and basketball, as well as cycling and tennis events, among the competitions either rescheduled …
Skateboarding
Events

Street League Skateboarding (SLS), the sport’s leading professional series, has announced its schedule for the 2020 season ahead of skateboarding’s Olympic debut in Tokyo this summer.
Snooker
Marketing

The World Snooker Tour revealed a new corporate identity and name at the start of this year as it marked ten years of ownership by Barry Hearn's Matchroom Sport. The rebrand is intended to see it towards another decade of international growth, with China, India and the Middle East on snooker's radar.
Events

China's General Administration of Sport has instructed the country's sports associations to consider cancelling upcoming events as far as April in response to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the country,…
Winter Sports
Events

A report on Chinese winter sport consumption habits by the China Tourism Academy and online Chinese tour operator Ctrip has said the number of winter sports tourists during the 2018-19 season hit 224 million
Basketball
Media

Brooklyn Nets owner Joseph Tsai has expressed his desire for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV to resume its coverage of the NBA basketball league amid the continued fallout caused by a tweet sent last year…
Golf
Media

Korean internet services firm Kakao has launched a new golf media section, including live streaming coverage of major tours, on its online portal Daum
Sponsorship & Marketing

Regulation has limited the extent to which China’s sporting stars can capitalise on their sporting prowess via commercial deals. But recent rule changes by the General Administration of Sports offers new possibilities. Chen Yaolin investigates.
Boxing
Events

Tokyo 2020 qualifying events in boxing and women's football scheduled for next month in Wuhan, China will be moved due to the coronavirus outbreak

The recently-rebranded 160over90, the marketing services arm of sports and entertainment group Endeavor, has recruited John Steere as senior vice-president and managing director of its operations in China
Sponsorship & Marketing

FC Barcelona has collaborated with the China Academy of Art to produce a series of posters to mark the upcoming Chinese New Year that combine the club's stars with traditional Chinese patterns and graphics
Football
Events

The Chinese Football Association has said it is not yet planning on moving the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games women's football qualifying tournament from Wuhan despite growing concerns about the coronavirus…
Esports
Business

Esports entertainment company Modern Times Group (MTG) has seen its share price take a near 14-per-cent hit after announcing the termination of a proposed strategic joint venture with Chinese live-streaming…
Finance & Law

China's National Bureau of Statistics and General Administration of Sport have announced that total sports sector output grew 15.3 per cent year-on-year in 2018 to hit ¥2.6tn ($376.4bn).
Esports
Media

Chinese live-streaming platform Huya has acquired rights for the League of Legends esports organisation’s North American Championship Series and European Championship.
Media

China's General Administration of Sport and its State Administration of Radio and Television signed an agreement in Beijing yesterday to jointly create a platform for events, programmes and content covering…
Sponsorship & Marketing

Technology firm Alibaba Cloud has formed a partnership with Narita Airport to showcase digital artworks by young Japanese artists related to the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

LaLiga has made Chinese mineral water brand NongFu Spring its official drinking water partner in China. SportBusiness understands the contract will run until the end of the 2021-22 LaLiga season