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NBA star Yao Ming pledged to give up eating shark's fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, as he joined a campaign to promote wildlife protection. Steve Trent, President of WildAid; basketball star Yao ...

Basketball star Yao Ming attends a ceremony in Shanghai on Thursday to launch a campaign urging people to stop eating shark fin soup. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/China Daily] SHANGHAI - Basketball ...

SHANGHAI - Recently retired Chinese NBA star Yao Ming is taking the fight against ... "There's been a massive increase in shark fin soup and the killing of sharks," said Branson, whose Virgin ...

Yao Ming, the supersize Houston Rocket ... In another break from tradition, a Yao spokesman said, the couple left shark fin soup off the menu, traditionally considered a must for a wedding ...

in the latest effort to curb the trade and consumption of shark fin. On Thursday, recently retired NBA star Yao Ming joined British billionaire Richard Branson in Shanghai to make an appeal ...

Yao Ming and Richard Branson are teaming up to help put an end to the cruel trade of shark fins for use primarily in shark fin soups in China. Loading... Recently retired Chinese NBA star Yao Ming ...

“When the buying stops, the killing can too” Chinese basketball star Yao Ming pushes a white ceramic cup of shark fin soup across a table. In an aquarium tank to his right, a bleeding computer ...

SHANGHAI (AP) — Recently retired Chinese NBA star Yao Ming is taking the fight against eating shark fins back to his homeland, where demand for the traditional delicacy is soaring despite ...

Basketball superstar Yao Ming and British entrepreneur Richard Branson joined forces on Thursday to get shark fin soup off the menu and save some of the species from extinction. Basketball star ...

BEIJING -- Yao Ming pledged Wednesday to give up eating shark's fin soup, a Chinese delicacy, as part of a campaign to promote wildlife protection in his homeland. "Endangered species are our ...