Other News

• Partner with Rugby in Asia

  Rugby in Asia is actively seeking partner companies in order to sustain the growth of the site and thereby give rugby union the publicity, in the Asia / Middle East region, that it richly deserves. This is an opportunity to receive wide-ranging promotion of your company whilst, also showing solid support for the game you love.

  19 Oct 2009

• Korea steals the show

  Korea beat its fiercest rugby rival Japan twice in the past 24 hours to take the gold medal at the first ever Asian Rugby Sevens Series event, the Shanghai Sevens, held yesterday and today at the Shanghai Rugby Club.  In the 3rd/4th place decider Hong Kong topped Chinese Taipei 24-10.

  14 Sep 2009

• Top spot for Hong Kong

  Hong Kong comprehensively outplayed Chinese Taipei to win the Olympus Capital Asian Junior Rugby Tournament 37-0 and secure their spot as the second best under-20 team in the continent.

  14 Sep 2009

• Sun Hsin-Chien is hat-trick hero for Chinese Taipei

  Hong Kong and surprise finalists Chinese Taipei are into the final of the Olympus Capital Asian Junior Rugby Championships.  The final will be played at 17.30 on Saturday, 12 September, 2009 at the Hong Kong Football Club. 

  10 Sep 2009

• Two years to go

  Exactly two years today the Rugby World Cup 2011 will kick off in Auckland, New Zealand with the first game being the hosts taking on Tonga.

  09 Sep 2009

• Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Chinese Taipei advance on first day of Olympus Capital Asian Rugby Junior Championships

    Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Chinese Taipei emerged victorious from the first day’s match action in the Olympus Capital Asian Rugby Junior Championship held today at the Hong Kong Football Club, Hong Kong.

  07 Sep 2009

• Hong Kong look to dominate on home territory

  The Hong Kong Rugby Football Union’s Under 20 men’s team will join six of Asia’s premier Under 20 sides in the upcoming Olympus Capital Asian Rugby Junior Championship.  The Tournament will be held over three match days on Saturday, September 5; Wednesday, September 9; and Saturday, September 13, 2009.  All matches will be played at the Hong Kong Football Club.

  04 Sep 2009

• England Rugby Captain Steve Borthwick Visits Taiwan

    Current England captain and philanthropist Steve Borthwick recently graced these beautiful shores with his dominating presence.  His purpose was to guest-speak at the annual Taipei Baboons Rugby Dinner.  It was even more important to the team that he come as the dinner itself was a charity, fund-raising event for a fellow rugby player who suffered a serious injury in an accident.

  14 Aug 2009

• Olympic return is within touching distance

  Rugby seems set to return to the Olympic Games in 2016.  The International Olympic Committee’s executive board voted to include rugby sevens and golf at its Berlin executive board meeting yesterday.

  14 Aug 2009

• New I.R.B. Laws Website

  If you are a player or a coach at any level of the game it is mandatory that you have a grasp of the Laws of the game.

  31 Jul 2009

• Bledisloe is off to the Land of the Rising Sun

    Last year’s 4th Bledisloe Cup match, played in Hong Kong, between the Wallabies and the All Blacks netted both unions millions of dollars in much needed additional income and for that reason above any of the other more philanthropic suggestions, Asian rugby fans will have the opportunity to see two of the three highest ranked teams in the world battle it out in Tokyo’s National Stadium on 31st October 2009.

  22 Jul 2009

• World Games Sevens

  This coming Friday and Saturday will see eight nations compete for the World Games Sevens title in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The World Games are held every four years and this, the eighth staging of the event, will see over 4800 athletes, from 105 nations, take part  in 31 sports. This is the first time Taiwan has hosted an Olympic-related event since they started to compete as Chinese Taipei at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

  21 Jul 2009

• Asian 5 Nations 2009; the final story

  All the matches in the 2009 Asian 5 Nations have now been completed and the final results are detailed below. Japan again dominated the Top Five, but Kazakhstan surprised everyone, not least Korea by finishing in second place. Next year the tournament will double as the qualifiers for the World Cup 2011. In the highly unlikely circumstances that the Arabian Gulf were to qualify it may cause some consternation, as their union is being officially split up into its constituent countries on December 31st 2010.

  08 Jul 2009