An op-ed article looking at the recent news reports that the Chinese government’s “investment arm” is interested in purchasing a Premier League football club. It might be too early to call it “normal,” but since Chinese investors went after the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers basketball squad in 2009, the latest news that a Chinese investment group [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Business'
Communists Go After Liverpool
August 7th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Business, Football, Government, Sports, Sports Media
Tags:BBC·China Investment Corporation·CIC·Franklin Templeton Investments·Guang Yang·Guardian·Kenneth Huang·Liverpool·Lou Jiwei·NBA·Premier League·soccer·Telegraph
Foreign Investigations into the NBA
April 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Basketball, Business, Government, Sports, Sports Media
A Russian billionaire is being challenged by an American politician over previous company investments. Is this cause to also go after a Chinese investment group that is finalizing a deal to purchase the Cleveland Cavaliers? A New Jersey congressman is demanding an official inquiry into Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire who is about purchase the [...]
Tags:Albert Hung·Cleveland Cavaliers·David Stern·Kenny Huang·Mikhail Prokhorov·NBA·New Jersey Nets·Robert Mugabe
How Golf Relates to Agricultural Project in China
April 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Golf, Government
A disheartening piece from the Shanghai Daily: TREES that cost millions of yuan to plant to stop soil erosion and water run-off in a north China village have been uprooted for a golf course. The sea buckthorn trees sheltered gales and stabilized the soil in Jiuchenggong Village in Erdos City of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, [...]
Tags:Erdos·Erdos Yitong Yitong Coal Co Ltd·golf development·Inner Mongolia
A Youth Soccer Tournament Visible from Outer Space Kicks off in July
March 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Football, Sports, Sports Media
Our friends at China Sports Tour are working on a great project. Before reaching out to the outer space, they’re bringing teams from around the planet to compete in a youth football tournament. Please see below their media release. The first international youth soccer tournament in Beijing reveals details today. The tournament, named The Great [...]
Tags:Beijing Football Association·Beijing Municipal Sports Administration·China Sports Tour·Olympic Sports Center·Shine Liu·The Great Wall Cup of Beijing
Football Reporters Should also be Investigated
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Football, Government, Sports, Sports Media
An article asking the question: Why have China’s football beat reporters been left out of the league-wide investigations? The China Football Association handed out another round of rulings this week, demoting Guangzhou Pharmaceutical and Chengdu Sheffield United from the China Super League after evidence showed the teams had bribed opponents during the 2006 and 2007 [...]
Tags:Chengdu Sheffield·China Football Assocation·China Super League·FA·Global Times·Guangzhou Pharmaceutical·Nan Yong·Qingdao Hailifeng·soccer·Yang Yimin·Zhang Jianqiang
Golf in Hainan Island
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Golf, Government
Where’s the largest collection of golf facility in the world? Right, Shenzhen. But soon that will be Hainan, China’s southernmost province: The scope of the multi-billion-dollar project is staggering. It occupies 80sq km of forest and shrubland – an area the size of Hong Kong island – in north-east Hainan, the island province long touted as [...]
Tags:gambling·Guangdong Province·Hainan·horse betting·lottery·Mission Hill Hainan
Li Ning to Open First Store in the US
December 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Sportswear
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 [...]
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
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
