Asia-Pacific
Round-Up: AFC to launch women’s Champions League, Vivo signs Kohli, LG Uplus to show KLPGA coverage, and more
The Asian Football Confederation will launch a women's Champions League competition in 2023 - AFP
Round-Up: Beijing 2022 test event, Football Australia to launch media rights tender, Sun Yang hearing date set, and more
A Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics test event trialled having media conduct interviews with athletes in a 'mixed zone' in which they were in separate rooms and connected via video link - China News
Round-Up: Women’s World Cup host cities revealed, KBO allows fans in stadiums, WTA encourages vaccinations, and more
Fifa announced the nine host cities for the 2023 Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Eden Park in Auckland will host the opening game and Sydney's Stadium Australia will host the final
Round-Up: Fiji rugby seeks investors and sponsors, Brown: at least 20 F1 races this year, IPL sponsorship deals, and more
McLaren Formula One chief Zak Brown expects the motor racing series to pull off at least 20 of its planned 23 races this year
Round-Up: Asian Qualifiers restart, Tokyo torch relay starts, Thai govt plans World Cup bid, Tencent reports $19.5bn profit, and more
Asian qualifiers for the 2022 Fifa World Cup and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup resume today after a delay of more than a year due to the pandemic
Round-Up: Sina goes private, Lions to tour in South Africa, Vietnam marathon to go ahead, and more
Chinese media company Sina, majority owner of the Weibo social media platform and owner of the Sina Sports media platform, among other assets, has went private and ceased to be a publicly-traded company…
Webinar replay | Creating value for media-rights partners in APAC club football
Replay of a live SportBusiness webinar held March 18 discussing the challenges faced by football leagues in the Asia-Pacific region as they seek to develop their media-rights businesses
Round-Up: Endeavor ‘revives IPO plans’, Johor crown prince weighs Man Utd stake, CBA agrees Weibo deal, and more
Entertainment and sports marketing group Endeavor is reported to be reviving its IPO plans
Round-Up: Wenger suggests World Cup every two years, Tony Fernandes interested in MFL president role, and more
Arsene Wenger, Fifa's chief of global football development, suggested hosting the World Cup and European Championships every two years and compressing qualifiers into a smaller number of windows - Reuters
Round-Up: China ‘asks Alibaba to divest media assets’, Tokyo torch relay to start without fans, and more
The Chinese government has asked internet giant Alibaba to divest its assets in the media sector due to concern about the company's public influence
Round-Up: ‘No decision yet’ on Tokyo visitors, China offers vaccines to IOC, FanCode gets Malaysian cricket rights, and more
No decision has yet been made on whether to admit foreign visitors for the Tokyo Olympics, organising committee president Seiko Hashimoto said, pouring cold water on media reports in recent days that the…
Round-Up: “Difficult” for family to join Tokyo athletes, IPL’s Royals target 40-per-cent increase in sponsorship, and more
It will be "difficult" to have athletes' families come to Japan to watch them at the Tokyo Olympics, organising committee president Seiko Hashimoto said - AFP
Round-Up: CCTV fails to show NBA All-Star game, more teams for women’s Cricket World Cups, women join pro snooker tour, and more
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV did not show live coverage of this year's NBA All-Star Game, as it had been previously expected to do as part of a thaw in Chinese relations with the American basketball le…
Round-Up: Lions ‘turn down’ Rugby Australia offer, Arsenal lose £48m, Decathlon China partners with Alibaba Cloud, and more
The British and Irish Lions turned down an offer by Rugby Australia to host this summer's tour against South Africa, according to the BBC
Sebastian Page | Son’s success underlines enduring value of Asian players for European football
Sebastian Page, account director at CSM Hong Kong, says Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung Min's on-and-off-pitch success underlines the special value of Asian stars in European football
Round-Up: Man Utd financials show Covid hit, KBO salaries drop, HK presses ahead with cycling Nations’ Cup, and more
The impact of the pandemic on football club finances was underlined again as Manchester United reported its second quarter results. United's matchday revenue was down 96 per cent year-on-year
Round-Up: Afreeca renews K League streaming, Beijing 2022 boycott calls “doomed to failure”, burst of Korean sponsorship deals, and more
South Korean streaming platform Afreeca TV has extended its rights to show live coverage of K League football, to cover the 2021 season