Malaysia

Three Australian TV stations have promised to airing programmes for the Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games soon in efforts to help Malaysia intensify promotion of the event.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has hit out on at

The Organising Committee for the Olympic Football Tournaments, Sydney 2000, has reaffirmed their ruling on age limits, and announced that the Men's Olympic final will be played in Sydney's new Olympic Stadium.

Malaysia's ruling soccer body will not support Asia's tentative boycott of the 2002 World Cup over an extra berth, according to local newspaper reports.

British Grand Prix organisers plan a $60m (#42m) revamp of Silverstone to make it one of the world's best Formula One venues.

Asian sports broadcaster ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has acquired the exclusive terrestrial, cable and satellite television broadcast rights of the English Premier League for the next three seasons beginning August 2001.

The season-ending championships of the WTA Tour, a fixture in New York for 29 years, will be moved to Munich, Germany, beginning next year.

Brazil has told Asian nations that its bid for the 2006 World Cup combined passion and organisation and it deserved to host the tournament.

Predominantly Moslem Malaysia, bowing to pressures from Moslem-led groups, has dropped Danish brewery Carlsberg as a major sponsor of the Commonwealth Games starting in Kuala Lumpur in September.

Drivers have got lost and some buses have simply not turned up, but team officials have said the biggest teething problem of the 16th Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur - transport - is getting better.

Malysian Youth and Sports Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has welcomed theFootball Association of Malaysia (FAM) decision to stop foreign imports in the Malysian League and Cup tournaments from next season.

The 20th Southeast Asian games begin on Saturday with attention focused as much on the tiny sultanate of Brunei as the actual competition itself.

Perry Crosswhite, general manager of Australia's team for next year's Commonwealth Games in Manchester, believes England will surpass them in the medal tally, citing the National Lottery for the host nation's sporting revolution.

The opening leg of the UIM Formula 1 Powerboat World Championship in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, will be used as a benchmark for other venues of the 14-round UIM world championship

Beijing is eyeing the 2008 Olympics as a cure for problems ranging from choking smog to taxi-clogged streets, and as an image boost for the Communist capital.

A new Asia-specific sports web site - TotalSportsAsia.com - has gone live, following its official launch in Kuala Lumpur.

Official licencees of merchandise for the Commonwealth Games have just overtwo months left to recover the millions of ringgit that they have invested,the New Straits Times reported.

World athletic supremo Primo Nebiolo has been criticised for saying the scheduling clash between the World Cup in South Africa and the Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games was the fault of Games organisers.