Li Na out of WTA top 5 after Wimbledon

2011-07-05 09:25:34

China's French Open champion Li Na has dropped out of the women's singles top five in WTA's new rankings released on Monday.

Li Na honored Pioneer of Breakthrough by home province

2011-07-04 20:08:53

Chinese tennis star Li Na was honored on Monday by her home province as the "Pioneer of Breakthrough" for her landmark victory in the French Open.

500m yuan to boost Chinese soccer

2011-07-04 08:26:00

Fresh from the recent disappointment of its Olympic team failing to qualify for next year's London Games, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) launched a huge salvage campaign on Sunday by reaching a multi-million-dollar deal with a domestic company to support a new youth development program.

Dalian Wanda back to Chinese soccer

2011-07-03 21:05:49

The founder of an all-mighty Chinese soccer club who quitted the game in disgust in 2000, announced their return on Sunday with a half-billion-yuan ($77 million) program to save China's struggling soccer.

90-year-old Chinese wins 3 golds at US National Senior Games

2011-07-01 17:45:32

Gao Rushan, a 90-year-old retired engineer from China, has pocketed three golds for table tennis at the US National Senior Games.

Zhang won't defend 800m title at swimming worlds

2011-07-01 08:11:46

China's first male world champion swimmer, Zhang Lin, will not compete in the 800m freestyle at July's Shanghai World Championships, abandoning his chance to defend the title he claimed two years ago in Rome.

Full speed ahead for Beijing-Shanghai bullet train

2011-06-30 17:53:58

The first commercial bullet train between Beijing and Shanghai departs the Beijing South Railway Station at 3 pm on June 30, 2011, symbolizing the official start of the high-speed railway. The 1,318-kilometer link, chains together the country's prosperous Pan-Bohai and Yangtze River Delta economic zones, cutting the time between the two cities to under five hours from two days half a century ago.

Golf set to boom in China following Tseng's success

2011-06-30 08:14:03

Chinese Golf Association (CGA) chief Zhang Xiaoning has fond memories of playing with budding star Tseng Yani from Chinese Taipei a few years ago.

National coach quits his Shanghai job

2011-06-30 08:14:03

Bob Donewald, head coach of Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) club Shanghai Sharks, has terminated his contract with the team, the said announced on its website on Wednesday.

Fun and games commemorate revolutionary days

2011-06-29 17:20:27

A national red sports meeting with 14 events, mainly fun games, was held from June 26-28 in a bid to commemorate CPC's revolutionary days.

Tseng scores runaway victory at LPGA Championship

2011-06-27 10:22:26

Yani Tseng from Taiwan of China underlined her status as women's world number one by winning the LPGA Championship on Sunday by 10 strokes to become the youngest golfer to amass four major professional titles.