Taiwan Fines Nike $30,000 for Brief Jordan Visit
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Taiwan slapped a T$1 million (US$30,000)  fine on Nike Inc. on Thursday for a 90-second appearance on  stage by basketball legend Michael Jordan for what the sports  gear giant had said would be a one-hour show.
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U.S. authorities said on Tuesday they had charged 29 people in a scheme to smuggle counterfeit goods including designer handbags and jeans into the United States, mostly from China, worth $700 million.
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The China market is finally for real. To the country's new consumers, Western products mean one thing: status. They can't get enough of those Air Jordans
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TOKYO: Japan issued a visa yesterday for former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to visit for sightseeing, prompting another round of angry protests from China.
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Athletic shoemaker says earnings jump on strong demand for its athletic shoes and Converse sneakers. NEW YORK  - Nike Inc.
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Score one for Michael Jordan. A federal bankruptcy court judge in New York last month ruled that Jordan's attorneys could proceed with their $8 million claim against WorldCom for the unpaid portion of a 10-year endorsement agreement.
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Business & money: Sports chain to part-refund customers who were overcharged for replica football shirts
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Detroit Pistons coach Larry Brown was fined &#36;15,000 by the NBA on Thursday for verbal abuse of an official, a day after he had to be restrained during a postgame argument with referee Anthony Jordan.
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A Chinese court has ordered a holiday resort and a crocodile keeper to pay almost 220,000 yuan ($30,600) in compensation to the parents of a nine-year-old boy who was devoured by the reptiles last year.
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Detroit Pistons coach Larry Brown was fined $15,000 by the NBA yesterday for verbal abuse of an official, a day after he had to be restrained during a postgame argument with referee Anthony Jordan.
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Securities regulators have ordered a division of Citigroup Inc. to pay $478,000 in a fine and restitution for allegedly recommending high-risk commodity futures funds to people who shouldn
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China has banned a Nike TV commercial in which US basketball star LeBron James defeats animated Chinese characters, after viewers complained on the Internet.
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U.S. police have seized thousands of pairs of fake Nike sneakers and charged six men in connection with one of the largest busts of counterfeit goods in recent U.S. history, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Detroit Pistons: Coach Larry Brown was fined $15,000 by the NBA for verbal abuse of an official, a day after he had to be restrained during a postgame argument with referee Anthony Jordan.
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The Austrian Olympic Committee was fined $1 million by the IOC on Thursday in connection with the doping scandal at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin.
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Sport: Tennis: World No 4 hit with $2,000 fine for lack of effort in recent defeat to Marin Cilic.
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UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was unaware his son received $30,000 a year for over five years from a Swiss-based company under investigation in connection with suspected corruption in the UN oil-for-food program in Iraq.