South-East Asia

Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, will host the 16th Commonwealth Games in September, 1998. Most of the sporting venues are in their final stages of completion.
Events

The technology system for the Kuala Lumpur 98 Commonwealth Games will be fully tested for two days prior to the Games to ensure there are no hitches when the eventsstart.

Events

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.

Lisbon is expected to launch its second bid this year to host a major sports event.
Business

Goal celebration antics cost Malaysia's self-styled soccer 'Superman' 2,000 ringgit ($526) after a sponsor complained his display hid its company logo during a TV broadcast.

Indian hockey authorities have sacked chief coach Vasudevan Baskaran and dropped three senior players after their disappointing seventh-place finish at the Sydney Olympics.
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.
Stadia

Tighter security is needed at "non-regular cricket venues", according to the chief investigator of the sport's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU).
Stadia

Britain?s Liverpool Football Club is looking for an Asian affiliate for a television channel the club hopes to set up with Granada Television, a major Liverpool shareholder.
Business

ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has promoted Vib Sharma to senior vice president, advertising and integrated sales.
Business

Thailands' Finance Ministry is to offer tax exemptions to importers on goods to be used for the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok in December.
Business

Only 6,745 athletes from 42 nations have registered to take part in next month's Asian Games by the deadline this week, compared with the anticipated total of more than 8,700, the Games organising committee said.

ESPN's X Games is set to go international after it was announced it will stage an extension of the extreme sports event in Phuket, Thailand.

Retailer FJ Benjamin has scored an exclusive deal with English soccer champions Manchester United to sell club merchandise and set up a chain of theme stores and cafes across soccer-crazy South-east Asia.

The Malaysian Open badminton championships starting on Wednesday have fallen victim to the Asian economic crisis which has cut prize money by $60,000 and deprived the event of some big names.
Media

The troubled Millennium Cup soccer tournament has suffered a fresh setback with officials canceling a third-place playoff to cut losses.
Sponsorship & Marketing

It's a mammoth task for Sukom Ninety-Eight, the Kuala Lumpur CommonwealthGames organisers, to raise the final 10 per cent of the RM310 million budgetwith less than 100 days to go, the New Straits Times reported.

Around $A2.94m worth of computer hardware has been despatched to the site of the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia.