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Chinese scientists are considering launching a high-profile search for an ape-like Bigfoot creature in Central China's Hubei province, nearly 30 years after the last organized expedition to seek the legendary beast in the early 1980s.
Scientists are hoping the expedition could end the long-running debate on the existence of the creature, according to Wang Shancai, a 75-year-old expert with the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, who is also the vice president of the Hubei Wild Man Research Association -- organizer of the expedition.
Located deep in the remote mountains in Hubei, Shennongjia Nature Reserve has long been rumored to be the home of the elusive creature known in China as the "Yeren," or "Wild man." It is also referred to as "Bigfoot" after the legendary North American ape-man.
More than 400 people have claimed Bigfoot sightings in the Shennongjia area since last century, but no hard evidence has been found to prove its existence.
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Women wear swimsuits with Chinese characters "Sports Models" written on red sashes in a promotion campaign on Chouzhou street in Chengdu, Sichuan province on Sept, 27, 2010. They drew the attention of many passersby.
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The 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games flame was ignited in a traditional sun-ray ceremony at the Juyongguan pass of the Great Wall Saturday morning.
The sun shone just enough over the military stronghold of the old time for Kang Chenchen, a 22-year-old student from Yunnan Arts University, to focus its rays on a silver torch using a concave mirror.
The flame will burn at the November 12-27 Guangzhou Asian Games, following a one-month torch relay in Beijing, Harbin, Changchun, Haiyang and 21 cities of the Guangdong province.
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Kim Jong-il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official watched the performance of "Arirang" Saturday night, an event celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
In a meeting with Zhou Yongkang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, before the show, Kim thanked Zhou for the congratulatory messages sent by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, over the landmark WPK conference and the 65th birthday of the WPK.
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I have resisted making a big deal about this month’s escalating dispute between China and Japan over the East China Sea, because it is hard to envision a scenario where it spirals out of control beyond nationalist chest-thumping and diplomatic brinkmanship. At this point, this row is still, for me at least, safely at a stage where we can laugh at it, and you should too, by watching this brilliant animated confection from Taiwan’s Next Media Animation (hat tip to Danwei, which beat me to the title “Ninja vs. Panda”).
I think you’ll enjoy the David Caruso CSI spoof, complete with removed sunglasses and bad pun. You can say you’re keeping up with the news because this actually sums up the story to date pretty well, including the absurd coincidence of a panda death in Japanese custody at a Japanese zoo:
Read more: China Takes On Japan? Watch Ninja Take On Panda Instead
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