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The 2023 Asian Games will take place in Hangzhou from September 23 to October 8. Hangzhou will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games, after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010.
Hong Kong Velodrome will be one of the Games venues in November. Photo: Jonathan Wong
2025 National Games

National Games tickets to cost as little as cup of coffee, Hong Kong chief says

More than 300,000 tickets will be on sale in the city and most will be affordable, according to coordination office boss Yeung Tak-keung.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong windsurfer Cheng overcomes pre-race jitters in quest for Paris medal

Cricket Hong Kong

Organisers want cricket at 2026 Asian Games despite Japan venue headache

Hong Kong teen Kao chasing chess master status after historic Spain victory

Jamison Kao believes he can reach candidate master ranking sooner than expected after winning Christmas event.

Jamison Kao won at the Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival last month. Photo: Handout
Video gaming

Video | The resurrection of China’s video gaming industry

Chinese Basketball Association

Yao Ming jumps to defence of China basketball players after online abuse

Former NBA All-Star and now president of the Chinese Basketball Association says criticism of players after Asian Games failure has gone too far.

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North Korea

Asian Games bosses fined HK$3.8 million for flying North Korea flag in Hangzhou

Olympic Council of Asian slapped with fine for allowing flag, despite anti-doping officials banning secretive country from doing so over testing breaches.

Volunteers carrying the North Korea flag walk out at Huanglong Sports Centre Stadium ahead of the women’s football gold medal match between Japan and North Korea at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Photo: Reuters
FIBA

Basketball fans in for treat with world-class 3x3 stars set for Hong Kong Masters

World No 1 team Ub Huishan NE and fourth-ranked Amsterdam will feature in final Fiba 3x3 World Tour leg.

Table tennis gold for Hong Kong at Asian Para Games as city shines on final day

Women’s doubles pair Ng Mui-wui and Wong Ting-ting win gold, city takes bronze in the same event and women’s team sabre fencers also win bronze, with Hong Kong poised to finish ninth in medal table.

Tearful fans celebrate China’s Asian Para Games wheelchair basketball gold

The hosts defend their title with their third consecutive gold, having met Japan in the final of each of the four editions of the Games.

China defeated Japan for their third consecutive wheelchair basketball gold. Photo: Xinhua
Hong Kong

Hong Kong wins more Asian Para Games medals as swimmer Chan breaks record twice

Badminton’s men’s singles semi-final sees Chu Man-kai oust compatriot Wong Chun-yim but the Hongkongers pair up to reach doubles final, after Chan Yui-lam helps take the city’s podium tally to 30.

Chan Yui-lam of Hong Kong celebrates her women’s 100 metres butterfly S14 gold. Photo: China Hong Kong Paralympic Committee
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Meet ‘Hong Kong’s Cristiano Ronaldo’ Matt Orr after his Asian Games triumph

The 26-year-old has emerged as one of Hong Kong’s top footballing talents in recent years, but recently left his boyhood club to join China League One team Guangxi Pingguo Haliao

Nepal

Nepal’s kabaddi medal at Asian Games shines light on ‘overlooked’ women athletes

Family restrictions, poor infrastructure and low wages often discourage many young Nepali women from pursuing sports as a career.

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Hong Kong society

Opinion | Hong Kong can lift athletes’ game with more targeted funding

The bulk of government spending on sports development now goes to community sports, while funding for the professionalisation of sports is also falling short. There is also a solid case for reviewing funding for popular sports like football, which inspired strong support during the recent Asian Games.

Hong Kong football players celebrate after winning the men’s quarter-final against Iran at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on October 1. Photo: Xinhua

Hangzhou transforms venues as first matches of Asian Para Games commence

With the wheelchair basketball tournament beginning on Thursday, athletes and spectators can now appreciate the accessible venues with elements including barrier-free showers and washrooms, guide dog rest areas, lifts and tactile paving.

Torch bearers pose during the torch relay for the 4th Asian Para Games. Photo: Xinhua
Taichi Kho

Hong Kong’s Games stars feted by John Lee but sport official vows funding review

City’s leader Lee hosts an event for Hong Kong’s record-breaking Asian Games athletes, even if celebrations are muted with the focus already switching to the Paris Olympics.

Thailand

Thai breakdancer seeks hair growth sponsorship as headspins make him bald

Kantapon Rodsaart, known as T-Flow, is 29 and says he has thin hair and a ‘headspin hole’ bald spot.

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Analysis | Can Hong Kong maintain Asian Games success? That is the HK$7 billion question

New stars joined the established likes of Siobhan Haughey in delivering medals, but there are questions for some generously funded sports that did less well.

Swimmer Siobhan Haughey accounted for six of Hong Kong’s 53 medals in Hangzhou. Photo: Dickson Lee
Global Impact

Hong Kong enjoys series of firsts at best Asian Games

In this issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look back at events at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, which included a series of firsts, including esports making its debut as a medal event.

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Hong Kong society

Opinion | Asian Games: Hong Kong’s story of triumph gives off all the right vibes

Our athletes haven’t just made history, they are telling the stories Hong Kong needs to hear about overcoming the odds and showing hard work pays off. John Lee’s promise of celebrations is good but it’s time to really support sports.

Hong Kong

Curtain falls on triumphant Asian Games fortnight for China – and Hong Kong

Chinese Premier Li Qiang watches on as Olympic Council of Asia chief Raja Randhir Singh hails Hangzhou event an ‘unprecedented success’.

Hong Kong’s delegation enters the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium during the closing ceremony of the Asian Games. Photo: Xinhua

North Korea to let drug-testers visit, OCA says amid row over flag at Asian Games

Country’s flag has been on display at the Games, in defiance of a ruling by World Anti-Doping Agency, which found North Korean doping body to be non-compliant.

Volunteers carry the North Korean flag ahead of the women’s football gold medal match in Hangzhou. Photo: Reuters

Asian Games officially declared closed in ‘romantic’ ceremony – as it happened

Olympic Council of Asia’s acting president thanks Hangzhou for being ‘perfect hosts’ and says ‘we will never forget this’.

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South Korean football gold brings military exemption but also ‘responsibility’

Requirement for South Korean men to do 18 months in military is waived for an Asian Games gold medal, which the footballers clinched with 2-1 victory over Japan.

Hong Kong miss chance of last podium spots in men’s kata and women’s kumite

With only six teams competing in men’s team kata, Hong Kong were guaranteed to battle for bronze but left without a medal after losing to Iraq. World No 3 Tsang Yee-ting struggles in women’s -50kg kumite, losing in round of 16 and repechage.

Tsang Yee-ting (left) exits Asian Games with a disappointing performance in the women’s -50kg kumite. Photo: SF&OC
Badminton World Federation (BWF)

Asian Games: An beats China’s Chen to badminton gold, both limp off court

World No 1 An Se-young hurts her knee and receives medical treatment before staging remarkable comeback to win gruelling final over Chen Yufei in Hangzhou.

An Se-young of South Korea is exhausted after clinching women’s singles badminton gold in Hangzhou. Photo: Xinhua

India gifted gold as rain finally exposes Asian Games cricket for farce it is

India handed medal because of higher global ranking than opponents Afghanistan. Big four, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were placed straight into quarter-finals.

Ceci lee

Hong Kong’s ‘breakthrough moment’ hailed after record-breaking Asian Games haul

‘We are a small city with a small population, but I am very proud of the results we have had,’ chef de mission Kenneth Fok says.

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