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Asian pay-TV platform ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has signed up Toshiba and Carlsberg Asia as broadcast sponsors for coverage of English Premier League soccer.

Samsung, the Korean technology company, has renewed it sponsorship of the screenings of TWI's in-flight screenings of Trans World Sport for the next three years for an undisclosed sum.

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment has signed a series of agreements delivering more than 2,200 hours of WWFE programming across three continents.

Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) allegedly stopped its only competitor from full coverage of a Manchester United soccer event it had sponsored.

Singapore’s S-League football club Woodlands Wellington, without a sponsor at the beginning of this season, has secured its second sponsor in two months.

Asian sports broadcasting network ESPN Star Sports has renewed a deal for carriage of its channels on pay-TV operator Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) for a further five years.

The usually plentiful stocks of counterfeit shirts of English soccer club Manchester United are running low in Thailand, where thousands of fans are eagerly awaiting the English champions' arrival on Friday.

Singapore is struggling to keep prestigious sporting events because sponsors say the island cannot give them a good return on their investment.

ESPN Star Sports has made three new appointments to its team

Indonesia and Thailand could be disciplined by the Asian Football Federation following the bizarre behaviour of their teams in a Tiger Cup group match.

The Thailand Football Association has written to FIFA to request a change of venue for their Asian World Cup qualifying match scheduled for Baghdad on Friday, a Thai official said on Tuesday.

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

Manchester United will play three games on a summer tour of Asia next year to consolidate their popularity there.

Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) president Charlie Dempsey has said he had permission to vary his vote at the FIFA meeting that decided Germany would host the 2006 World Cup, not South Africa.

Asian soccer's governing body has said it would crack down on corruption and match-fixing.

ESPN Star Sports has made three new appointments to its team.