China

International sports media agency MP & Silva has launched an office in Beijing as a means to increase its presence in China and the Asia-Pacific region.

Soaring demand is powering an increase in the production of vuvuzela horns at Chinese factories.

Qingdao, China, has been added to the ISAF World Match Racing Tour series schedule in a five-year deal starting this year.

Sportswear maker Peak has become the first Chinese company to sign a major sponsor of the WTA Tour, agreeing a five-year deal to become official shoe and apparel partner in Asia-Pacific from this summer.

The Olympic Council of Asia has reacted angrily to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s decision not to send a team to this year's Asian Games in China. Olympic Council of Asia secretary general Randhir Singh said it is a "setback" for the future of cricket in the region.

A professional baseball league will launch in China this year which is intended by its founders to grow into an Asia-wide league taking in teams from Japan, Taiwan and Korea.

ATP international group chief executive Brad Drewett has said that “the sky is the limit” for the potential of tennis in China, as he launched the country's first Challenger Tour event in Beijing.

A spokesman for the Chinese businessman thought to be interested in buying Premier League club Liverpool gave a mysterious response to a Reuters request for information the matter, that seems to suggest a face-to-face meeting between the two parties could be about to happen.

A Chinese government ban has failed to stop construction of golf courses according to Li Jianqin, head of the law enforcement and supervision department at China’s Ministry of Land and Resources.

The Korean Golf Association has said tournaments at this year's OneAsia Tour will go ahead as planned despite a boycott by South Korean golfers.

The 2011 Formula One calendar will be the biggest ever, with 20 races, after Bernie Ecclestone confirmed the addition of an Indian Grand Prix, and the continuing participation of the Turkish and Chinese Grands Prix.

Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt will return to China for the first time since the 2008 Olympics for the Shanghai meeting on May 23 of the new Diamond League athletics series.

German sportswear company Puma will enter a team in the next Volvo Ocean Race, in 2011-12, after finishing second in the 2008-09 competition.

Some of the world’s top badminton players are backing a new charity aiming to raise funds within the sport’s community for small-scale projects for worthy causes around the globe.

Shanghai Fashion Plastic Products, the Chinese company ordered by world football’s governing body FIFA yesterday to stop making World Cup mascots because of poor factory working conditions, says it is a victim of ‘South African politicking’.

Only one golf course in Beijing has been developed legally, a member of the law committee in China's parliament said yesterday.