SportBusiness staff, Asia

Mixed martial arts promotion One Championship has agreed a deal with Chinese sportswear firm Li Ning to produce martial arts gear for fans and athletes

Sporjo, an India-based online service providing education and training aimed at budding and established sports industry professionals, has raised $2m (€1.7m) in a pre-Series A funding round.

Malaysian MotoGP team Petronas Sepang Racing Team (SRT) is shutting down at the end of the 2021 season

Jacques Rogge, the Belgian who was the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee, serving between 2001 and 2013, has died at age 79

Ehsan Mani has stepped down as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board and will be replaced by former national team captain and television commentator Ramiz Raja, according to multiple news reports

Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV has acquired rights for Vietnam's upcoming qualifying matches for the 2022 Fifa World Cup in a sublicensing deal with telco FPT

Indian fantasy sports company Dream11 has become naming sponsor of all International Cricket Council 'pathway' tournament qualifying events in a deal running until April 2023

Marketing firm PRO Company has acquired the media rights for Asian Football Confederation competitions in the 2021 to 2024 cycle

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics officially opened yesterday (Tuesday), with organisers hailing the biggest-ever athlete contingent for making it to the Games against a challenging pandemic backdrop

In a guest article for SportBusiness, Denis Green, global head of communications for the Mailman digital agency, speaks to Li Shen, head of sports content operations at Xiaohongshu. The growing social media 'lifestyle' app is popular among young and female Chinese audiences and has ambitions to be a bigger platform for sports content