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 'Government'
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
On Zhou Yang And Who To Thank
March 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Education, Government, Ice Skating
The whole who-to-thank saga revolving Olympic gold-medalist skater Zhou Yang and her family went a little crazy last friday, as Zhou’s mother found herself besieged by questions beyond any stretch of her imagination. From Youku Buzz: In this candid record provided by one Youku Paike, Zhou’s mother was surrounded by media reporters, pushing for explanations [...]
Tags:collectivism·Education·National Gymnastic Association·nationalism·patriotism·Political Consultative Conference·Wang Bingyu·Yu Zaiqing·Zhou Yang
Catch Me If You Can, Says the Chinese Gymnastics Association (Update 1)
March 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Government, Gymnastics, Sports, Sportsmanship
Five golds, two silvers and four bronzes – the performance of Chinese athletes at the Vancouver Games has been nothing but outstanding during the celebration of Chinese New Year. But back home, sports officials in Beijing are fumbling, as a bronze medal the Chinese gymnastic team won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics could be stripped [...]
Tags:2000 Sydney Olympics·2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics·age scandal·CBA·Dong Fangxiao·FIG·He Kexin·sports law·Yang Yun
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
Purge Exposes Rotten Underbelly of Chinese Sport
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Football, Government, Sports
The article is published in today’s Global Times. When Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger visited Beijing last summer, there was one question in his mind. At a press conference, he asked the moderator, Huang Jianxiang, a well-known local football commentator, why China, with so many people, lacked a first-rate football team. The question was laughed off [...]
Tags:Arsene Wenger·bribery·CCTV·CFA·coaching·corruption·CSL·gambling·GASC·He Wenna·Huang Jianxiang·Ma Yanping·match-fixing·Nan Yong·National Games·Xiao Tian·Yang Yimin·Zhang Jianqiang·Zhou Jihong
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
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
