South-East Asia

Satellite providers NTL and Williams Vyvx Services have announced an alliance to deliver comprehensive occasional video services to the global broadcasting community.

Asian soccer's governing body has said it would crack down on corruption and match-fixing.

Singapore's professional football league, just in its third year, may be in financial trouble.

Organizers of Singapore's professional football league, the S-League, have asked clubs for proof of a contract with a confirmed club sponsor or a banker's guarantee for $300,000 by Jan 1 1999.

The Singapore Turf Club and Singapore Airlines Ltd have said they will jointly sponsor a S$3 million horse race next March to commemorate the opening of a new racecourse.

The Jaguars of Tanjong Pagar United soccer club are set to become the Arsenal of Singapore.

Singapore?s City TV will be the only free-to-air channel to bring viewers live television coverage of the UEFA Champions League this season.

Millions of soccer crazy Vietnamese missed the start of the English Premier League season at the weekend after Vietnam Television (VTV) failed to reach an agreement with the company holding distribution rights for Asia.

Tighter security is needed at "non-regular cricket venues", according to the chief investigator of the sport's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU).

The Thailand Football Association has written to FIFA to request a change of venue for their Asian World Cup qualifying match scheduled for Baghdad on Friday, a Thai official said on Tuesday.

ESPN Star Sports has made three new appointments to its team.

Asian sports broadcasting network ESPN Star Sports has renewed a deal for carriage of its channels on pay-TV operator Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) for a further five years.

Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) allegedly stopped its only competitor from full coverage of a Manchester United soccer event it had sponsored.

Only 10 per cent of an expected 400,000 visitors to Japan from South Korea will be able to get a flight to the soccer World Cup next year, according to Chung Mong Joon, the co-chairman of the tournament?s organising committee.

India's cricket board has withdrawn its threat to boycott major events such as the World Cup and is ready to host next year's International Cricket Council (ICC) knockout tournament, the board's president has said.

The Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) has condemned the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as promoting `negative values? and ordered national network MediaCorp TV to reschedule its screening of the sport to a post-10pm time slot.