China

Ninety percent of the population of Beijing tuned into the broadcast of the Olympic vote on the host city for the 2008 Games which saw the Chinese capital emerge victorious.

Beijing seems to be cruising towards victory in the race to stage the 2008 Olympic Games, despite human rights demonstrations on the IOC’s doorstep and Chinese stadiums that currently exist only as computer graphics.

Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis's lawsuit to force champion Hasim Rahman to make his first title defense against the Briton has begun in the U.S. Federal court.

The 2002 Tennis Masters Cup, the season-ending tournament for men co-owned by the ATP, the Grand Slams and the International Tennis Federation, will be staged by Shanghai.

David D'Alessandro, chairman and CEO of John Hancock Financial Services, one of the ten TOP Olympic Games sponsors, has warned the Olympic movement that the next IOC president must deliver credible TV ratings in the US market or face “deeper economic problems” in the longer term.

China is in line for a billion-dollar pay day if Beijing wins the right to stage the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Boxing promoter Don King and TV network HBO have scrapped the planned heavyweight showdown between John Ruiz and Evander Holyfield.

Three days before Olympic officials vote on Beijing's bid, members of the U.S. Congress, flanked by world-class athletes, squared off on Tuesday over whether the 2008 Summer Olympics should be held in China.

As Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games enters the home strait, Big Business is drooling at the prospect of the largest marketing event ever in the world's most densely populated country.

Beijing officials defended China's human rights record on Wednesday but conceded it faced a challenge persuading world opinion that the Chinese capital should stage the 2008 Olympic Games.

Osaka Olympic bid organisers stressed the quality of the Japanese city's venues and a government pledge of unqualified financial backing in its final submission to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday.

China is to inaugurate a football pools gambling draw for the first time in its history, it was announced today.

Human rights groups, backed by China's best-known exiled dissident and Tibetan activists, have launched a campaign against awarding the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to China.

Neither South America nor Africa can afford to stage the Olympic Games says new Olympic chief Jacques Rogge.

Chinese Olympic officials are likely to appoint a home-grown insurance broker to cover the 2008 Olympics rather than an international intermediary experienced in big event, sports related insurance.

English soccer club Manchester United is on the brink of taking legal action against a Hong Kong restaurant that is using the club’s name without a licence.