Hong Kong

Tennis
Media

The semi-finals and finals of the Ultimate Tennis Showdown, the innovative tennis event created by French tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou, will be shown by pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports across…
Football
Governance

Pressure is growing in the UK for an inquiry into the events that placed English Football League club Wigan Athletic into administration
Athletics
Esports

World Athletics has halted the process allowing Russian track and field athletes to compete internationally as neutral athletes after Russian Athletics missed a deadline to pay a $6
Football
Finance & Law

English football club Wigan Athletic has gone into administration less than four weeks after being taken over by a Hong Kong-based partnership
Rugby Union
Events

World Rugby, the global governing body for rugby union, has announced that the remainder of the 2019-20 World Sevens Series has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with New Zealand awarded the…
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster i-Cable has acquired rights in Hong Kong to football’s Russian Premier League.
Football
Events

Hong Kong Premier League football club R&F has called for the current league season to be voided, and for the teams to establish their own company to manage the competition
Esports
Business

Japan’s Nikko Asset Management has launched an exchange-traded fund in Hong Kong aiming to tap into the growth of the computer games and esports industry.
Boxing
Events

English Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has encouraged fans to stay away from stadiums, as the league prepares to resume play today
Football
Finance & Law

Au Yeung Wai Kay, a businessman from Hong Kong, has taken over English football club Wigan Athletic
Esports
Media

International subscription sports broadcaster beIN Media Group has commissioned a new esports series that will offer a simulation of the final six rounds from Spanish football’s 2019-20 season.
Football
Media

Korea's K League has agreed media rights deals in 10 overseas markets, with potentially more to come, as it prepares to become one of the few football leagues in the world to resume play next month
Sponsorship & Marketing

The Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, (SF&OC) has added Japanese instant noodle company Nissin Foods to its sponsorship portfolio
Other

Tributes have been paid to Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales, a sports official credited with putting Hong Kong on the global sporting map, who died last Friday aged 100
Cricket
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN has agreed a one-season deal to broadcast cricket’s Pakistan Super League in Australia and across various Asia countries and territories.
Beach Volleyball
Other

This year's Tokyo marathon is being confined to 200 elite runners due to the coronavirus outbreak, wiping out the mass participation element that would have involved 38,000 amateur runners
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster i-Cable has acquired the exclusive media rights in Hong Kong for Japanese football's J.League. i-Cable has purchased the rights in a three-season deal covering 2020 to 2022
Rugby Union
Events

SportAccord on Thursday confirmed that this year’s World Sport & Business Summit will not take place in Beijing due to the Novel Coronavirus outbreak in China, while Tokyo 2020 has reiterated that this s…