Former NBA star Yao Ming is urging society to let sport return to its original function of bringing joy to children.
Wang Yanning, a senior sports commentator at Shanghai TV, will retire from his seat as a basketball commentator after 15 years with the Shanghai Sharks.
Yao Ming will miss a day at university this week for one of the many launch events scheduled for his own branded wine.
A bottle "Yao Ming Wine" produced by Yao's wine company is auctioned at an initial price of 60,000 yuan ($9414) during a charity auction held by Special Olympics East Asia in Shanghai, Nov 27, 2011.
Yao Ming revealed that he did not grasp his first mathematics lesson at all in a speech Wednesday in Beijing. "To be frank, I was totally lost in my first math class. Only a few vague memories of studying it were reawakened," he said.
Chinese basketball superstar Yao Ming enrolled at an elite university in Shanghai as a management-school freshman.
Yao Ming formally registered for his first semester at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Sunday.
Chin's A380 had its first maiden flight from Beijing to Guangzhou on Oct 17, 2011. It is the first of five A380 jets that China Southern Airline ordered from Airbus.
Retired Chinese NBA star Yao Ming hailed a basketball game held near an iconic beach in Western Australia a happy marriage of basketball and beach, which combined sports and tourism.
Former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming will study in the prestigious Shanghai Jiaotong University from October, his agent Zhang Mingji said here on Monday.
Yao Ming and British entrepreneur Richard Branson joined forces to get shark fin soup off the menu.
Yao Ming(R), ambassador of shark conservation of the wild aid association under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) attends a press conference to announce a campaign to protect the endangered species in Shanghai September 22, 2011.
Major League Baseball (MLB) opened its second development center in China earlier this month. After establishing its first center in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, two years ago, MLB built a second base in Changzhou, an industrial city just 40 kilometers away in the same province.
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