Chinese sportswear maker Li Ning is to open its first store in the US on January 4 next year, according to Li Ning Sports USA, its US subsidiary’s recent Facebook page update: It’s official…….Come visit the first Li-Ning retail store in Portland on 1/4! We will be open Monday-Saturday from 10am-6pm. E-commerce is coming soon at www.li-ningusa.com Li [...]
Entries from December 26th, 2009
Li Ning to Open First Store in the US
December 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, Sportswear
Tags:Badminton·Hong Kong·Li Ning·Nike·Portland·Singapore·Sportswear·Tsim Sha Tsui
Communist Quietly Comes to Cleveland
December 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Basketball, Business, Government, Sports, Sports Media
A look at the recent discussions concerning Hong Kong businessman Albert Hung, who is now purchasing a stake in the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. I dug through the news reports from Ohio to China, trudging through the same list of accolades and accomplishments of Albert Hung, one of the wealthiest businessmen in Hong Kong, who is [...]
Tags:Albert Hung·CBA·Cleveland Cavaliers·CPPCC·Hong Kong·Hong Kong Selection Committee·Kenny Huang·NBA·Ohio·Plain Dealer·St. Louis Rams·Tsingtao
How Much Does the Guangzhou Asian Games Cost?
December 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Business, Government, Sports
Our translation of a story on yesterday’s Guangzhou Daily about the expenditure on the Guangzhou Games: “It’s unacceptable to just spend money on the Asian Games without telling the Guangzhou People’s Congress Standing Committee (GPCSC) how much the expenditure!” Today, during GPCSC group discussion about Guangzhou municipal government’s Report on the Organizing Work of the [...]
Tags:2010 Guangzhou Asian Games·Guangzhou·Guangzhou Asian Para Games·public spending·transparency
Snooker Prodigy Ding Donates Pies to Sheffield Homeless
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Philanthropy, Snooker
Chinese snooker star Ding Junhui beat John Higgins 10-8 in the final of UK Championship, snooker’s second-biggest ranking event on Sunday night, and part of his prize was 69 kilos worth of sponsor’s pies. Ding wrote on his blog after the win: It really is a tough match. To me, playing with John is the [...]
If You Build it, They Won’t Come
December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Basketball, Business, Football, Government, Racing, Sports, Sports Media, Track and Field
An op-ed on how despite the rise in sporting venues throughout China, the country’s sports stadiums remain empty once the lights fade and the games conclude. There is no question that large, global sporting events can help change the image of a city. Governments use the spectacles as a means to redevelop or invest further [...]
Tags:2008 Olympic Games·2010 Guangzhou Asian Games·Beijing·Beijing Organizing Committee·China Basketball Association·East Asian Games·Harbin·Jiangsu·MLB·National Games·NBA·NFL·Premier League·Robot Games
One Year to the Asian Games, Guangzhou Still Not Getting There
December 2nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Government, Sports
I was back from a reporting trip in Guangzhou, not for the Asian Games if you’re wondering. But four days of staying there made me think that the city is far from ready to host the Games. Here’s a piece that I wrote for the Global Times about its unreadiness and, in case you don’t [...]
