Rockets.com posted on Tuesday afternoon an interview with Yao, along with video of him working out…(if for some reason these videos don’t display in your browser, you can click here to view them on Rockets.com)

They also interviewed his personal trainer Anthony Falsone. One of the big revelations that’s good news for Yao’s fans in China is that Falsone says that Yao will be able to go back to China in December.

Click here for some of the transcripts from the interviews with Yao and Anthony.

Since I recorded and posted the videos of Yao working out at Toyota Center a few weeks ago, it looks like the press thought it would be a good idea by recently taking some photos of him doing the same.

Click here to see more photos of Yao working out with his new boot.

Although Yao isn’t playing anytime soon, the Chinese news agency Xin Hua did a big article on Yao the other day. It’s basically a recap of Yao’s past history, similar to what you would read in his biography “A Life in Two Worlds.”

But there’s some new nuggets of information in there that I didn’t even know, like how his first thing to drink as a baby was not breast milk, but a bowl of bitter soup of “Huang Lian,” which was a local custom to give children a better idea of what sweetness is later in life.

He also said he’s not an adventurer. For example, he always drives the same route to Toyota Center, and rarely takes chances in shooting the basketball in different ways for fear of picking up an offensive foul. But he is more independent than his parents, who grew up during a much different time in China’s culture.

Click here for the entire article.

Click here for more info from Raymond in the forum. Looks like Yao will be doing some public service announcements about it soon, all for a good cause. As the article notes…

It is estimated that about 350 million Chinese, or nearly 27 percent of the country’s total population, are consumers of one third of tobacco products around the world.

Each year about one million Chinese die from lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases that can be directly linked to tobacco use, according to the CATC.

Passive smoking, commonly known as secondhand smoke, also put the health of additional 540 million Chinese under threat, partly due to weak enforcement of smoking ban in public places.

Here’s another video of Yao working out, this time in the Rockets’ weight room at Toyota Center.  Check it out!