Asia

Cricket
Business

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.

Tennis
Stadia

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.
Events

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

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.

Baseball
Business

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.
Events

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.

Basketball

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.

Tennis
Events

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.
Events

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) and the South Korean government remain committed to staging the Gwangju 2015 summer Universiade multi-sport event next month despite the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in the country.

Football
Business

Asian Football Confederation (AFC) general secretary Alex Soosay has quit his position amid allegations he tried to interfere with a corruption investigation at the governing body, while Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou has denied that he sold his vote in the election for the host of the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
Events

Singapore sports officials have stated the city-state’s successful hosting of the 2015 SEA Games is unlikely to lead to efforts to secure a future edition of the Asian Games, with the continent’s multi-sport showpiece not fitting in with the strategy for attracting sports events.
Events

Senior South East Asian Games Federation (SEAGF) executive Chris Chan has said that the Philippines is currently the only realistic candidate to replace Brunei as host of the 2019 edition of the multi-sport event.
Business

The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has received a total of 26 applications from international sports federations proposing events to be included in the summer Olympic Games in five years' time.
Business

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has become the latest body to submit a proposal to feature at the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic Games.
Events

Almaty in Kazakhstan and Beijing in China have integrated their bids for the 2022 winter Olympic Games into long-term development strategies for their cities, according to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach.
Events

Japan’s Sports Minister Hakubun Shimomura has given assurances that Tokyo’s new National Stadium will be completed in time to serve as the centrepiece of the 2020 summer Olympic Games.

Bowling
Events

World Bowling, the unified international body for ninepin and tenpin bowling, has submitted an application for the sport to be considered for inclusion in the programme for the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympic Games.
Events

Brunei has given up its hosting rights for the 30th South East Asian (SEA) Games multi-sport event in 2019.