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Caltex Oil (Thailand) Ltd is stepping up its promotion campaign in the run-up to the Asian Games, for which it is a major sponsor.

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.

Manchester United chief executive Martin Edwards has said the club's board are still backing the BSkyB bid for the club despite being urged to re-consider by hundreds of fans.

Margot Jackson, an Australian who won the 100 and 200 metres sprint double at the 1952 Helsinki Games, has been appointed to the board of the Sydney 2000 Olympic organising committee.

President Juan Antonio Samaranch has said the IOC would expel members from the organisation if they were found guilty of wrongdoing in the scandal over allegations that votes to win the games are for sale.

Pete Rose, the US baseball boss banned from the sport 10 years ago after an alleged betting scandal, could be about to return to the game.

One of the UK?s leading bookmakers is set to float on the stock exchange in a move set to value the business at a cool #900 million.

From delinquent to dohyo master in six short years, Japan's newest sumo superstar Ryuji Hiroshima has made his mother very proud, and unwittingly become a shining example for the nation's disaffected youth.

England has been fined #80,000 ($131,000) by rugby union's ruling body, the IRB, in a row over commercial and television rights.

The southern hemisphere's Super 12 competition will not be expanded for at least two years, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) has announced.

Video game publisher Hasbro Interactive has struck a five-year licensing agreement to develop family and children?s software games and interactive toys based on the world of Nascar.

The 20 English Premier League soccer clubs generated a combined turnover of #569.2 million - a growth of 23% - in 1997-98, according to Gerry Boon, chairman of the Football Industry Team at Deloitte & Touche.

A merger between Europe's dominant national pay-TV operators, BSkyB and Canal Plus could be revived.

Formula One's Bernie Ecclestone is in talks with Rupert Murdoch's UK BSkyB to broadcast the sport on pay-per-view.

Video game giants EA Sports, has signed a three-year sponsorship and licensing agreement with PACE Motor Sports.

The world's first 24-hour soccer TV channel is to be launched this autumn.