capital of the boxing world."

For promoter Top Rank, it's a chance to get a head start on bringing the sport to the huge, untapped market in China. Boxing was banned under Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong for being too violent and too Western. It wasn't until 1986 that the ban was lifted.

The sport is nowhere near as popular in China as soccer or basketball, but Top Rank boss Bob Arum sees a vast potential market of new fans. Key to his plan is Zou, who became a celebrity in China after winning a gold medal in the Beijing Olympics and another at the London Olympics.

Zou "has energized people who follow sports in China," said Arum. "The number of people who watched his last fight in China was quitecourage to come out and report,” said Najim Miftah, a volunteer at the hospital. He has a binder of missing people that has doubled in two days with more than 70 new records.

Miftah has another 297 names saved on a computer filled with virtual folders containing photographs of the dead who have passed through the hospital, in the hope of helping families either identify a body or rule out the worst.

Five distraught men shuffled in on Saturday in to register two brothers of fighting age who disappeared in mid-March, a month of fluctuating front lines between forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi and rebels seeking his ouster..... MORE

04/25/2011
TOKYO—Foreign tourists remain a rare sight more than a month after Japan suffered the most powerful earthquake in its history, as the