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NOT EXACTLY an update about Big Yao as this happened 3 weeks ago on August 25(Sunday).

[color=darkred]I had delayed its posting because I had been waiting to get hold of the short but humorous public service announcement video featuring Yao Ming and Ye Li.

Yao Ming and Ye Li were featured in this public service announcement produced by the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Traffic Police Corps, Chinese Wine Association and Anheuser-Busch InBev together.

It's called [b]Price of Love

Some photos from the premiere on August 25 in Shanghai.

Here is a poster of the PSA as well as videos at the premiere and the PSA itself.

I have provided 2 links to the PSA, and hope it will work outside of China.

Poster for the PSA



Video at the Premiere of the PSA

http://i7.imgs.letv.com/player/swfPlaye ... id=2099254

Video of the PSA

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjA4NzI5NTYw.html

http://i7.imgs.letv.com/player/swfPlaye ... id=2099853

And on September 12 (Thursday) it was Yao Ming's 33rd birthday.

In case you guys wondered what he is up to on that day, let me tell you.

The workaholic was working on his birthday on another philanthropist undertakings of his: shooting PSA for WildAid.

And the shooting location of the PSA was NOT in China but in London !!!!

YES, Big Yao had flown to London and was filming 2 PSAs for WildAid together with 2 British heavyweights: The Duke of Cambridge aka Prince William and ex Manchester United megastar David Beckham !!!

The PSAs are to urge consumers all over the world to not purchase illegal wildlife products, specifically rhino horn, ivory, and shark fin.

The PSAs will be in English, Mandarin Chinese, and Vietnamese and to be broadcast globally in November.

Here are just 3 photos I managed to scoop from the Internet.

Details re the WildAid PSA project that Yao Ming is currently working on in London.

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/429 ... elp-rhinos

NBA's tallest player towers over Prince William
as they join forces to help rhinos

[size=109]By: Dion Dassanayake
Fri, September 13, 2013

The Duchess of Cambridge's husband and the ex-Manchester United star are working with 7 foot 6 inch NBA star Yao Ming to urge consumers not to buy illegal animal products.

The trio are campaigning against products made from horns and ivory taken from rhinos along with shark fin in their work for charity WildAid.

William, Becks and the Houston Rockets player met for a photoshoot for the charity.

In one priceless shot Wills and Becks stand either side of Ming who dwarfs over them, with the England football legend left craning his neck to see him.

[color=red][b]Peter Knights, WildAid

STRANGELY there had been ZERO PUBLICITY and media converage of Yao Ming's philanthropist works in Kenya for the past 3 days.

Maybe Big Yao just wants to be AS LOW PROFILE AS POSSIBLE. After all, just as the Chinese idiom said 為善不欲人知, i.e. Those who do good deeds, should not do so out of a desire for others to know about it.

He woke up early on September 14, visited an orphanage for elephants in Nairobi and shot part of the PSA.



Then he took a close to 5 hours bumpy ride to Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy for more shooting of the PSA amongst elephants and other wildlifes.

Then on September 15, Big Yao and the filming crew went to the Lewa Widllife Conservancy in Northern Kenya, home to a wide variety of wildlife including the rare and endangered black rhino, Grevy's zebra and sitatunga. Lewa holds over 12% of Kenya's black rhino population and the largest single population of Grevy's zebras in the world (approximately 350 individuals).

Here are 2 photos of Big Yao with 3 orphan black rhinos whose parents were killed by poachers.