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NBA back in China after six-year absence sparked by democracy tweet
AFP, Published on 08/10/2025
» MACAU — The National Basketball Association (NBA) returns to the lucrative China market this week with two pre-season games following a six-year absence after a team official tweeted his support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
Can Europe's richest family turn Paris into a city of football rivals?
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» PARIS - Paris has everything — stunning architecture and arguably the best food and fashion in the world. But the French capital lacks one essential element of a modern metropolis: it has no football rivalry.
South Africa bids for first African F1 grand prix in 30 years
AFP, Published on 28/02/2025
» MIDRAND — Three decades after Formula One (F1) engines last roared on African tarmac, South Africa is mounting a bid to organise a new Grand Prix and bring the world championship back to the continent.
US fund takes over Inter Milan
Reuters, Published on 22/05/2024
» MILAN - The US investment fund Oaktree Capital Management has become the new owner of the Italian football champions Inter Milan after the club’s Chinese holding company missed a 395-million-euro loan payment.
World Cup kicked off non-True platforms again
Online Reporters, Published on 26/11/2022
» A day after the telecom regulator said that all IPTV operators must be allowed to carry World Cup matches for free, a court has upheld a complaint by True Corp, forcing its internet TV rivals to go dark again.
World Cup TV broadcasts confirmed
Online Reporters, Published on 19/11/2022
» Seventeen free television channels will broadcast live World Cup 2022 matches in rotation, with True4U 24 carrying the opening match between the host country Qatar and Ecuador on Sunday at 11pm Thailand time.
All that glitters: How the money-spinning IPL turned cricket into gold
AFP, Published on 10/05/2022
» NEW DELHI - The Indian Premier League has made millionaires out of young players, generated invaluable publicity for team owners and made the national cricket board one of the richest governing bodies in global sport.
Damaged Amazon rainforest teetering on the brink
AFP, Published on 04/11/2021
» SAO FELIX DO XINGU (BRAZIL) - Something is wrong.
Cup of Nations 'beacon of hope' for battered Cameroon economy
AFP, Published on 16/08/2021
» YAOUNDE - The Africa Cup of Nations in January and February is a "beacon of hope" for a Cameroonian economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic and two conflicts, businessmen and traders say.
Environmentalists slam All Blacks tie-up with petrochemical firm
AFP, Published on 28/07/2021
» WELLINGTON - New Zealand Rugby confirmed a deal Wednesday for petrochemical giant Ineos to sponsor the All Blacks, in an agreement slammed by environmental watchdog Greenpeace.