Tag Archives: football

Nike China marketing director detained in connection to soccer scandal

Nikee China’s marketing director Li Tong, a Chinese former ace huddler and US green card holder, has been taken into police custody in Shenyang for questioning.

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Guangzhou’s “Bus Rapid Transit” kind of slow

China’s national football team defeats Korea, three to nil.

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Football officials, coaches detained in match fixing scandal

Major figures of the Chinese Football Association go missing in an escalating gambling scandal.

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Police arrest football match fixers

Today’s Beijing News‘ top story and large graphic is about the arrest of at least four men suspected by police on suspicion of football (soccer) match fixing and arranging illegal gambling.

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African Boots of Beijing

African Boots of Beijing, a 2006 documentary by Luke Mines and Jeremy Goldkorn about an African football team in Beijing, is now online. Part 2 is here (also on Youtube.

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“I just went to take a bath”

The national soccer team member who booked a hotel room for half an hour just wanted a chance to bathe in peace, he says.

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Shenyang Evening News makes news in the Shenyang Evening News

Shenyang Evening News (沈阳晚报): Shenyang Evening News printed a photo on the front page showing the Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho receiving a Chinese calligraphy scroll as a present from the newspaper.

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There’s money in education

Foreign unis in China; gas prices may rise; stocks fall; Yao Ming and the ref scandal; China vs. Qatar; ethics of online manhunts; exploding toilets.

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Hakuna matata

A Danwei TV video on Tudou.

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-27

The BBC on pay-per-view football’s failure in China, Socialist Party of Australia on China’s gangster capitalism, and The Economic Observer on a river going dry.

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