KARACHI: Soft drink giant Coca-Cola plans to review its ponsorship of Pakistani cricket after the national team was not allowed to display their logo in the Independence Cup tournament sponsored by rival Pepsi.

``We are reviewing the contract and we are in negotiations with the Pakistan Cricket Board,'' Coca-Cola spokesperson Lubna Javed told the German Press Agency, today.

Coca-Cola has a $ 3.5 million, three-year contract ending September 1998 to sponsor the national team and promote the game in Pakistan.

Seeking Klinsmann

PARMA: Italy's Parma soccer club is seeking to sign German Juergen Klinsmann for the next season. The one-year contract would pay him two billion lire ($ 1.2 million) a year and the option to play a second season.

Klinsmann, 32, now plays with Germany's Bayern Munich. He played in Italy before for Milan's Inter Club.

Taiwanese protest

PUSAN: Angry Taiwanese delgates staged a protest at the opening ceremony of the East Asian Games today after the organising committee downgraded the status of their education minister Wu Jin, who arrived here yesterday with a VIP guest pass .

The 234-member delegation marched silently and slowly into the stadium, without reacting to the applause of spectators. The Taiwanese, carrying an Olympic flag, embarrassed organisers by stopping suddenly for a moment of silence in front of the VIP seats where South Korean president Kim Young-Sam, International Olympic Committee head Juan Antonio Samaranch and other international dignataries were seated.

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