Asia

Lega Serie A, the governing body of the top division of Italian football, has announced that its 2015 Supercoppa Italiana competition will be staged in Shanghai, China on August 8.

JSW Steel chairman Saijan Jindal has said his group is set to acquire an Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise amid growing speculation that Royal Challengers Bangalore will become the first team from the Twenty20 cricket competition to change hands.

Chinese Super League champion Evergrande Taobao has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in a move that is set to see it become the first listed football club in Asia.

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) has announced badminton is to have a compulsory spot in the summer Universiade from 2021, while also stating its confidence that this year’s edition of the multi-sport event in Gwangju, South Korea will be unaffected by the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) situation in the country.

Marketing communications and advertising group The Mission Marketing has launched a new standalone sports and entertainment agency in the form of Mongoose.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has hailed Tokyo’s preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games as “outstanding” but has said a careful eye will need to be maintained on the cost of venues for the event.

Beijing’s bid committee for the 2022 winter Olympic Games has denied that an investigation into a deputy Chinese sports minister over alleged corruption could have an impact on its effort to secure hosting rights to the multi-sport event.

Broadcasters, event organisers and sponsors have tried and failed to crack the sporting code in India, in an attempt to reach the country’s billion-plus cricket-mad population. We hear from the insiders who have succeeded.

The International Cricket Council has suspended the USA Cricket Association’s (USACA) membership of the sport’s global governing body amid “significant concerns” over the organisation’s governance, finance, reputation and cricketing activities.

Ahead of its second edition, organisers of tennis’ Wuhan Open is tripling the size of its host venue to 15,000 seats – more than all four grand slam showpiece courts. Elisha Chauhan asks if it is too much, too soon.

Veteran politician Toshiaki Endo has been appointed as Japan’s first Olympics Minister ahead of Tokyo’s hosting of the 2020 summer Games.

The Japanese government has elected to retain the ambitious design plans for Tokyo’s new National Stadium, but its cost is now expected to rise by around Y80bn (€576m/$648m) to Y252bn, according to multiple media reports in Japan.

South Korea’s sovereign wealth fund has dropped its plan to acquire a stake in Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to Korean news agency Yonhap.

The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics has unveiled a shortlist of eight international federations to be considered for inclusion at the Games.

Euroleague Basketball and Chinese media and entertainment group HBN have formed a new company to manage the rights of the pan-European club competition in China.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that the 2016 edition of its World Team Cup showpiece wheelchair tennis event will take place in the Japanese capital of Tokyo.