Thailand

Eleven doping control laboratories were shown the "yellow card" by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for failing to comply with guidelines.

Facts about the FIFA vote to decide who stages the 2006 World Cup finals, which will take place on Thursday in Zurich.

Hundreds of youths went on the rampage at a detention centre in northeast Thailand in the early hours of Wednesday after officials prevented them from watching a World Cup soccer match on television, police said.

The cash-strapped organisers of this year's Asian Games have said they would ask for 500 million baht ($13.16 million) from Thailand's lottery to overcome liquidity problems caused by poor ticket sales.

Asian Games officials have turned a blind eye to a reported call by Thai police for alcohol to be banned at sports venues after fans threw bottles onto the pitch during a preliminary soccer match.

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.

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

All ten cities hoping to stage the 2008 summer Olympics met yesterday?s deadline for replying to an international Olympic Committee questionnaire.

The National Sports Council has invited the country's business elite to discuss a program to raise funds for the team competing in the 13th Asian Games in Bangkok in December.

Japanese coach Philippe Troussier said that soccer's world governing body FIFA should introduce weight categories to cut out cheating in age-group football.

Olympic boss Juan Antonio Samaranch has lavished praise on Thailand's much-maligned organisers of the 13th Asian Games, describing Sunday's opening ceremony as one of the best he had ever seen.

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.

Many of snooker?s top stars look set to join a breakaway tour which threatens to split the sport and end the domination of the game by its governing body, the WSA, following plans announced by The Sportsmasters Network (TSN).

Macau Cable TV has concluded a deal to carry ESPN and STAR Sports.

Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai has told Bangkok Asian Games Organising Committee (Bagoc) chief Bhichai Rattakul that if it became necessary Bagoc could get monetary support from the Government's central fund, the Bangkok Post reports.

Bangkok Asian Games Organising Committee (Bagoc) chairman and deputy prime minister Bhichai Rattakul has requested chefs de mission from 43 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) not to withdraw their teams from the Bangkok Asiad.