Man sues Yao Ming, pharmacy chain for 'misleading' fish oil pill
Former NBA star Yao Ming is being sued by Beijing resident Feng Changshun for endorsing a health food product that Feng said misleads consumers.
Famous face to help regain CSL face
2013-02-22 07:55David Beckham is coming to promote the Chinese Super League, but how far his "ambassadorship" role will go toward helping cure Chinese soccer's damaged image abroad remains to be seen.
AFC chief calls 'fixing' a soccer pandemic
2013-02-21 07:43The "cancer" of soccer match-fixing is a pandemic that is too big for one organization to tackle, AFC acting president Zhang Jilong warned as the regional body and Interpol kicked off a two-day seminar on the issue on Wednesday.
AFC to elect new leader in May congress
2013-02-20 17:29The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) will elect a new president at an extraordinary congress in May, the regional body said on Thursday, almost 18 months after former head Mohammed Bin Hammam was first suspended by FIFA.
Shenhua fans rocked by CFA penalties
2013-02-20 07:51Supporters of Shanghai Shenhua were stunned as the club's 2003 Chinese first division title was stripped, while the club's former ownership has yet to provide a response to the penalties meted out by the Chinese Football Association for a massive match-fixing scandal a decade ago.
Time for soccer to learn from past mistakes
2013-02-20 07:51The biggest match-fixing scandal in Chinese soccer came to its grim conclusion on Monday when the Chinese Football Association finally dished out its sanctions after a three-year investigation.
China strips Shenhua of 2003 league title, bans 33 people for life
2013-02-19 11:35The Chinese Football Association (CFA) on Monday stripped Shanghai Shenhua of the 2003 league title and banned 33 people for life, rounding off a three-year-long drive to clean up Chinese soccer.
List of individuals, clubs punished by CFA for soccer fraud
2013-02-19 09:31The Chinese Football Association (CFA) on Monday announced "disciplinary punishments" on individuals and clubs involved in the match-fixing and gambling scandals which were exposed in 2009.
Football penalties 'too soft'
2013-02-19 07:47Penalties handed out by China's top soccer body to individuals and clubs involved in the country's largest match-fixing scandal were slammed as inadequate.
Soccer scandal shows darker side of regimented Singapore
2013-02-08 15:26Singapore has long cultivated a reputation as a clean, safe and regimented place to live and do business in a turbulent region, but the apparently major role of Singaporeans in a global soccer match-fixing scandal shows a seamy underside often out of view.
Ex-PM says Australia's sports image 'torpedoed' by report
2013-02-08 13:47A damning report into doping in Australian sport has "torpedoed" the country's identity as a nation of fair play and investigators must quickly name the athletes and teams involved, according to former prime minister Kevin Rudd.
Australia to suppress match-fixing and doping in sport
2013-02-07 10:29The Australian government has promised to crack down on match-fixing after a report into doping and organised crime in sport revealed those links had led to manipulation of results.
New Chinese soccer chief takes office
2013-01-28 14:19Zhang Jian, former director of Policy and Regulation Department of China's Gerneral Administration of Sport, replaced Wei Di as the Chinese soccer chief.
