Malaysia

Sportfive, hit by recent rights and personnel losses, is set to regain its "calling card" in Asia.

Football: Hong Kong free-to-air broadcasters TVB and ATV agreed a deal with pay-television operator I-Cable for coverage of the opening match, the semi-finals and the final of the 2010 Fifa World Cup

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT, commercial broadcaster Mega and triple-play operator On Telecoms acquired packages of Champions League rights for the three-year period from 2009-10 to 2011-12.

Fifa close to deal in Malaysia but Uefa bides its time

Presence of Beckham has made La Liga Asia's second most popular overseas league, ahead of Serie A

Rights are top sports property in SE Asia, and crucial to ESS carriage deals

Sony is struggling to conclude sub-licensing deals for the cable and satellite rights for this year’s cricket World Cup in Asia outside India and Nepal.

The bidders and the winners in South-East Asia

Rights revenue increases 141 per cent on last round of Asian deals

Cricket: Pan-Asian satellite channel Ten Sports agreed a sub-licensing deal with Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan for highlights of the forthcoming Indian tour of Pakistan

Football: German sports agency Infront did not take-up its €595m (£412m) option for the Deutsche Fussball Liga rights for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, failing to reach agreement over price. 

ESPN Star Sports is in the middle of tough negotiations with cable operators as it seeks to refund its huge outlay for English football’s Premier League.

The revival of the India-Pakistan hockey test series after an interval of five years has attracted high television interest.

Malaysian commercial broad-caster TV3 is close to signing a deal for the 2006 World Cup

The International Badminton Federation, like other federations, is considering taking at least some of its television rights in-house

Cricket: Australian sports broad-caster Fox Sports acquired the rights for Australia’s next two tours to India, including the four Test series in October and the seven one-day internationals in 2009, i…