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Patama hosts FIVB chief during Bangkok visit
Sports, Published on 06/09/2025
» International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) president Fabio Azevedo was welcomed to Bangkok this week during the Women’s Volleyball World Championship 2025 at Indoor Stadium Huamark.
Japan boxing to hold emergency meeting following deaths
AFP, Published on 11/08/2025
» TOKYO - Japanese boxing officials will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday as the sport in the country faces intense scrutiny following the deaths of two fighters in separate bouts at the same event.
China's naturalised Olympians walk fine line between love and scorn
AFP, Published on 09/02/2022
» BEIJING: Eileen Gu and Beverly Zhu were both born and raised in the US before deciding to represent China, but their contrasting fortunes at the Beijing Olympics highlight the fine line between love and condemnation for the host nation's naturalised athletes.
Why is Taiwan not called Taiwan at the Olympics?
AFP, Published on 03/02/2022
» Four Taiwanese athletes are competing in Beijing's Winter Olympics next week, but they will not be announced as coming from Taiwan.
Now comes hard part for champ Raducanu
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 18/09/2021
» Some may regard the British reaction to the stunning, success of Emma Raducanu as being a bit over the top … and they would be partly right.
Wu poised to be next big name
Sports, Chuah Choo Chiang, Published on 12/02/2021
» All the talk on golf's Class of 2019 has so far centred around the trio of Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and Matthew Wolff, whose prodigious talents and youthful exuberance have seen them take the PGA Tour by storm.
Chinese-born He scores US college football touchdown, hails 'Great Wall'
AFP, Published on 13/12/2020
» LOS ANGELES: Peizhang "Jackson" He, the only Chinese-born player in major college American football, completed an amazing sport journey by scoring a touchdown for Arizona State in a victory over arch-rival Arizona.
Chinese football clubs ordered to change names
AFP, Published on 03/12/2020
» SHANGHAI - Next season's Chinese Super League will take on a new look after the 16 teams were told to drop the corporate part of their names, infuriating some fans.
Lin Dan retirement ends era of 'Chinese sports superstar'
AFP, Published on 07/07/2020
» SHANGHAI - The retirement of two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan signals the end of a golden era of Chinese sporting superstars, state media said on Tuesday.
Baby steps, boom times and Tiger: pro golf in China marks 25 years
AFP, Published on 29/04/2020
» HONG KONG - Twenty-five years ago professional tournament golf took its first steps in China and, despite a few stumbles, paved the way to establishing the sport in a country where it was once banned as a "bourgeois pursuit for millionaires".