Hong Kong
Events

DIRECTV, the leading US digital pay-TV entertainment service, has reached an affiliate agreement with FOX Sports World to offer the network on the DIRECTV programming line-up beginning September 1, 1999.
Business

Asian Internet firm chinadotcom is to cut more than 400 staff by June and sell non-core operations.
Media

Premier League soccer club Leeds United is to translate its website into seven languages across Asia and webcast the site via CrazyEsoccer.com, an established Asian football site.
Business

The NBA, constrained by the ?mature? domestic market are seeking new markets in Asia, according to a report in the Asian Wall Street Journal.
Stadia

A four-man inspection team from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has seen what Malaysia has to offer as potential hosts of the 2006 Asian Games.
Business

With Hong Kong's economy contracting, the territory's popular horseracing industry has found that fewer bettors are willing to try their luck.
Media

News Corp's latest financial results for the second quarter 2001 have shown that Asian joint venture ESPN Star Sports (ESS) is still $21million (?23.4m) in debt.
Business

The London-based Quintus Group has concluded the acquisition of Bailey Carr Ltd, adding to the company?s recent acquisition of RHB Ventures USA .

Australian test batsman Mark Waugh will be dropped unless he agrees to take part in a worldwide investigation into corruption in cricket.
Business

Sportshows Television has secured the television rights for the Asian Yachting Circuit.
Media

Goal Media Group, the digital media company that produces.goalnetwork.com and todogol.com, has signed an exclusive internet partnership with a Hong Kong and Chinese market online soccer publisher.
Business

The International Rugby Board (IRB) has recommended adding Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa to the four-nation Pacific Rim championship.
Events

Australian and South African rugby union will benefit from extra broadcasting revenue if a plan for the two countries? teams to clash offshore in Asia goes ahead.

Australia's horse racing industry was in mourning on Wednesday after leading trainer Peter Hayes was killed in a light plane crash.
Business

Hong Kong pay television operator i-Cable Communications Ltd is in talks to carry the ESPN sports channel and Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Ltd channels on its network.
Media

SINA.com, an online media and services company for Chinese communities worldwide, has launched China's official Olympics web site, http://aoyun.sina.com.cn.
Business

The World Cup short-course swimming series has been cut from 12 meetings to 10 and will offer more prize money.
Sponsorship & Marketing

Adidas, one of the World Cup's sponsors is cancelling all orders of footballs made in China after a report linked production with prison labour.