Tigers attack cleaner - Singapore Zoo
(Singapore Bureau)

On November the 13th a cleaner jumped in the white tiger enclosure at the Singapore Zoo and was killed by the animals as the horrified crowd watched helplessly from above.

The cleaner, Malaysian Nordin Montong, 32, was killed by two of the three big cats around noon in the enclosure. Eyewitnesses say they saw Mr Nordin shouting and flinging items around shortly before the cats pounced upon him. Mr Nordin jumped a low wall and landed in the surrounding moat in the enclosure, which is four meters below street level.

Mr Nordin was carrying a yellow pail and broom and he was seen crossing the 1.75meter deep moat. He then proceeded towards a rocky ledge where the big cats were and began agitating them by swinging his broom around.

Two eyewitnesses, an Australian couple, told the police that Mr Nordin covered his head with his pail, laid down curled himself into the foetal position on the ground when the two tigers advanced towards him. It was only a matter of seconds; the rare white tigers were on top of him. One of the tigers swiped at Mr Nordin with his paw, which is about the size of a softball ball, W.R. de Boer, Dutch tourist described that is when Mr Nordin began screaming as though he was in pain. W.R. de Boer explains how the 30 or so on lookers thought that the intrusion into the enclosure was part of a show. But when Mr Nordin began screaming, everyone looked on in horror. Many of the on lookers began screaming at the tigers to ‘go away’ and some were just yelling to scare the tigers away from their prey.

The intense shouting from the tiger enclosure caught the attention of the zoo staff and the alarm was raised immediately. Within minutes, there were 20 zoo staff standing around the enclosure looking down on the incident occurring below them. Some of the staff started throwing brooms and dustbin covers at the tigers to prevent the attack from continuing. While other staff members quickly ushered way the terrified crowd

Two of the zookeepers were armed with rifles and live ammunition, but for some reason they were never fired. Despite all the efforts of the zookeepers, one of the tigers continued attacking Mr Nordin for several minutes. The animals finally stopped attacking the cleaner when one of the doors to the tigers’ feeding area was opened from within the enclosure, however Mr Nordin remained lying motionless on the ground.

As soon as the tigers were safely inside the feeding area, and the doors that separate it from the rest of the enclosure were firmly closed tight, the other keepers were then able to get to where Mr Nordin was lying. But it was too late. Mr Nordin, who is from Sarawak, had been bitten on the neck and also suffered a fractured skull. He died before the police arrived on the scene.

Mr Nordin’s colleagues told the zoo staff later on that day how the contract worker, who had been working at the zoo for nearly five months, had begun to behave in quite a strange manner minutes before the incident occurred. Mr Nordin had apparently thrown is cutters and meal tickets into a nearby bin and then told his colleagues in Malay ‘Goodbye, you won’t be seeing me again,’ and rode off on his bike.

The Australian tourists also commented on how they saw the cleaner shouting and throwing things into the crocodile enclosure only 10 minutes before he was seen at the tiger enclosure.

This incident is the first time anyone has been killed by an animal at the zoo since it opened in 1973. Before this, the most serious incident that has occurred at the zoo was in 2001 and a bull elephant, Chawang, gored his keeper of 18 years, Mr Gopal Krishnan. Mr Krishnan had suffered fractured ribs and a punctured lung. He was in hospital for nearly two months before making a full recovery.

The zoo did stop the tram ride and prevent any more visitors from entering the zoo while Mr Nordin was trying to be rescued. And the white tiger enclosure will be temporarily closed as a precautionary measure but the zookeepers did not say for how long.
The two white tigers that were involved in the attack will not be put down as they did act naturally. The tigers, which are nine years old, were brought to the Singapore Zoo in 2001 from Sumatra.

Sex Ed in the Catholic Church

Amber Butler-Davis (Staff Reporter)

Sex education will now be taught in Catholic schools throughout the Philippines because House Bill 5043 was passed. House Bill 5043 makes sex education mandatory in all Catholic schools. The Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) is now planning to prepare its own sex education classes that will be based on the church teachings.

Hierarchy in the Catholic Church has conflicting feelings about teaching the Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood, and Population Development Act of 2008 that is promoting contraceptives and sex education in schools. House Bill 5043, is trying to put in place a national policy on reproductive health and family planning, instructing public and private schools to teach “age-appropriate” teaching of reproductive health and sexuality, including family planning methods, from Grade 5 to fourth year high school.

Balanga Bishop Socrates Villegas told the Daily Inquirer how the CEAP will create its own sex education program that will be based on the values and teachings within the Catholic Church and Catholic social teachings. A pastoral statement was released on Friday 14th of November explaining how the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said how the new legislation on family planning was very unacceptable in its present form, however at the same time it opened the floor to discussion with the congressmen who are pushing for the bill. One main objection about the bill was the fact that there would be a single reproductive health education curriculum in both public and private schools.

Villegas, the chairperson of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education, explained how the CEAP would prefer to offer an alternative curriculum. Villegas believes that the CEAP’s alternatives are better than the proposed curriculum in the bill.

The CBCP agree with the reproductive health care requirements of the bill which include material such as maternal, infant and child health and nutrition, promotion of breastfeeding, adolescent and youth health, elimination of violence against women, and among others. However, the CBCP do also feel that the bill contains fatal flaws and if they are not corrected the bill will therefore be unacceptable.

As it was stated in the Daily Inquirer the pastoral statement from the CBCP said “We appeal to our legislators to state in the bill in clear categorical terms that human life from the moment of conception is sacred…to insure that the bill recognize, preserve, and safeguard freedom of conscience and religion.”

The CBCP, also strongly believe that the bill should state clearly that it is against artificial means of contraception. The CBCP also expressed how the bill should not require the employers of the schools to provide artificial means of contraception and that the bill should not penalize “malicious disinformation” against the measure. The CBCP do believe that the bill should include mandatory consultation with religious groups and/or churches.

Villegas told the Daily Inquirer that the discussion about the bill, will be done individually between the bishops and their respective congressmen.

Temple Ownership

Bangkok Bureau - Reporting Asia

Thailand and Cambodia discuss ownership of temples.
Thailand and Cambodia are now at the negotiating table, a meeting of the Joint Boundary Commission (JBC) in Siem Reap, to discuss the ongoing deadly violence that is occurring at the area near the Preah Vihear Temple. The discussion, that began on Monday, aim to end the dispute over the land which is near the temple however, Foreign Ministry officials believe that an early agreement will be highly unlikely. The centre of the argument is over the control of a 4.6 square-kilometer area, which is between the Kantharalak district in Si Sa Ket province and Preah Vihear province in Cambodia, adjacent to the ancient Khmer temple
The Foreign Ministry officials both agree that the issue will not be able to be settled in a prompt manner because the two sides can not even agree on which map to use. Both sides are using different maps as the basis for their negotiations so until one map can be agreed upon they will continue to argue. Thailand is arguing that the watershed should define the border in the area near the temple but obviously Cambodia rejects this claim.
Treaties and Legal Affairs Department director-general Virachai Plasai, told an organised public forum that they can a numerous amount of documents ready to counter Cambodia’s point of view. Virachai is one of the Thai negotiators and is being led by the retired career diplomat Vasin Teeravechyan. Senior Minister Var Kim Hong, an adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen, is leading the Cambodian delegation.
After the Preah Vihear temple received World Heritage listing in July, the two countries gave priority to the JBC talks. In 1962, Thailand lost a World Court battle for ownership of the temple. They would like to see it back on its maps once again. The Thai officials are prepared for a heated discussion that should take two days. However, they are pleased that both countries will be at the same table so this should ease some tensions at the border and in the two capitals. A ministry official did mention how the aim of the meeting is to bring the ongoing conflict to a negotiating table. The officials believe that hard fought negotiations are much better then fighting.
A meeting between the two foreign ministers, Sompong Amornvivat and Hor Namhong will be held after the crucial JCB talks.
The discussion over the Preah Vihear temple has sparked other arguments over other spots that are along the 789 kilometer-long land border. The other spots include the Ta Muen and the Ta Kwai temples; however, Thailand insists that all of the temples in question are in the Surin province’s Phanom Dong Rak district. The tension between the countries came to an all time high when the Thai and Cambodia soldiers began fighting on the 15th of October in the area that overlaps the Preah Vihear temple as well as in Pha Mor E Daeng in Si Sa Ket. Cambodia has started complaining to neighbouring countries how the Thais are invading their territory. Bangkok has responded to these complaints by calling international attention to new landmines that Cambodia has planted near Preah Vihear.

Surfing the Net.

No longer just a bad habit it’s IAD!

(Amber Butler-Davis Staff Correspondent - Reporting Asia)

Do you prefer to surf the net then work? Do you constantly check your emails or facebook profile to see if anyone new is online you could talk to? Or, feel like throwing your laptop out of the nearest window when your Internet connection fails? If you have answered yes to one of the above questions then you might have Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD)
Surfing the net has always been considered as a bad habit but new results from psychologists have now proved that it is actually a clinical disorder. The two major symptoms of IAD have been identified as the following - lingering online for more than six hours a day instead of working or studying and behaving in an adverse manner if you are unable to get online. Based on the studies of IAD it has been reported that the main five activities that sufferers of IAD engage in are online gaming, Net pornography, excessive involvement in virtual social networking, too much internet shopping and general cyper-surfing.

Tao Ran, a leading medical professional on addiction in China and who headed the drafting of the manual explained how if the Ministry of Health approves the manual, it will be the first if it’s kind in the world. Tao also told the China Daily that the ministry is highly likely to give the manual the green light next year. If the manual is given the go ahead by the ministry, China will be the first country to recognise IAD as a clinical disease. IAD will be put in the same category as gambling or alcohol addiction. Not only will this manual help those suffering from IAD it could also help Western countries view IAD as an issue in their society.

The US media has reported how the American Psychiatric Association is now trying to decide whether or not they should include IAD in the fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This US manual is due for publication in 2010 and it is the profession’s primary resource of categorising and diagnosing mental illnesses.

The reason why China has taken such a likening to the study is because Internet usage is so high in the country. In August, a report by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee showed that 10 percent of the country’s 40 million underage Net users are in fact addicted to the Web and would rather spend their days surfing websites then studying or working.

An Internet media company, InterActiveCorp, conducted their own research last year and the results showed that 42 percent of young people in China did feel that they were ‘addicted’ to the Web, whereas, only 18 percent of the American youngsters said that they felt they were ‘addicted’ to the Web.

But could surfing the Net really be that big of a problem for the youth of today? Sadly the answer is yes. The virtual world is actually causing real-life problems for these teens. Figures from the Beijing Public Security Bureau show that 76 percent of juvenile crime in the city are somehow Internet-related. Tao explains how China’s juvenile crime problem is worse here than it is in Western countries.
Thank-fully, IAD is a curable disease. Tao works for the Military General Hospital of Beijing PLA and since 2005, he has received more than 3,000 Internet addicts. After three to six months of treatment, up to 80 percent of his patients have been able to fix their problem with Net surfing. The treatment is very similar for other addictions: The patients’

The treatment is similar to those for other addictions: Cutting off patients’ connection with the Web before offering them psychological counseling and complementing that with group interactive activities to teach patients how to socialize in real society.
Gao Wenbin, a researcher with the psychology institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the lack of family care, companions and real-life games are major reasons behind the rising number of young Net addicts in the country.
“Most children in China are the only ones in their families. They are told only to study hard, but no one really cares about their needs,” Gao said

A suitable home for every family.
Amber Butler-David (Staff Correspondent - Reporting Asia)

Ye Jinxiang prayers were answered when she received a phone call from the Luwan District Housing Security Center on Oct 28. The 52 year old retiree was told that her application for housing aid had been approved and she will now receive a monthly subsidy of 620 yuan starting in November.
Ye and her 19 year old son will now be able to move out of their 9.9 square meter room in Shaghai’s Ruijin Road into a bigger flat. Ye, also a divorcee, has been living in the small room for the past six months and a single bed and table is the only furniture she has. To prepare meals for herself and her son, she has to go down to the first floor and share a small kitchen with other families. Because the room is so small, Ye has been spending most of her nights at her mothers home and then returning in the morning to make sure her son gets whatever he needs. Her son is attending a university in Shanghai and wants him to concentrate on his studies.
Now all that will change since she was granted the government subsidy. Ye plans to lease out the room and move into a decent apartment which will be a pleasing for her son.
Ye is among the 7.47 million urban families that will greatly benefit from the upgraded national welfare housing program. The housing program will get 900 billion from the central and local governments across the country between 2009 and 2011. The housing plan which is listed on top of the country’s four trillion yuan stimulus package, will eventually help nearly 13 million low income families to move out of the 10 square meter rooms and into better and bigger flats.

Deputy minister of housing and urban-rural development, Qi Ji has estimated that nearly four million housing units will be built and then rented out to the low-income families in the urban areas. Nearly 3000 yuan a year will be spent by the government on the housing project. This has attracted another 600 billion yuan of investment from the cement, iron and steel, construction, home decoration and electrical appliances sectors plus it will create close to 2-3 million jobs. The housing project will help about 2.2 million families of forest and State farm workers, including miners, to move from there small rooms into better suited houses.

Yin Zhongli, a research scholar with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, explained how the expanded national welfare-housing program will actually help stabalise the housing and real-estate sectors. These sectors only grew by 1.6 percent in the last month; the lowest rise is two years. Also, the program will ensure that a safety net for housing will be established for the poor in both urban and rural areas. The housing fund from the central government will mainly help people like Ye, particularly those in fund starved central and western China.
The capital of Shanxi province, Taiyuan, has over 45,000 families living below the poverty line until June last year. Since the city received 7.29 million yuan as housing aid in the past four years, the housing aid was only available to the families that had a capita space of four square meters or less. The new program will change that. Shanghai even had a strict threshold when the low rent housing program began in 2001. Families with less than five square meters per member and an average income less than 280 yuan were eligible to receive assistance. And, surprisingly, the low-rent level has been lowered several times since then. It is now seven square meters and 800 yuan.
By the end of October, over 40,000 families were in fact eligible for the low-rent housing projects in Shanghai, with over 36,000 of them getting monthly subsidies and nearly 3,000 getting low-rent apartments. On October 19, a public draw was arranged because so many low-income people had applied for the welfare housing assistance. Now the houses and aid are being distributed fairly.

Hong Kong Bureau
Principals murderers have been found.
The Lianjiang police bureau confirmed on Monday that the three men who have allegedly stabbed to death a local political advisor in Lianjiang, Guangdong province, were arrested over the weekend. The alleged killers have been reported to be all Lianjiang locals aged between 18-21. They were caught six days after Huang Zhaoluan, the principal of Lianjiang Middle School and Vice-Chairman of the Lianjiang committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, was killed on his way to work last week.
The director of Lianjiang public security bureau, Chen Xuhua said that two of the alleged killers had fled to Baise city in neighbouring Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region after the murder. They were seized on Friday of last week and brought back to Lianjiang on the Staurday. The third suspect was found hiding in a town near Lianjiang on the Saturday morning.
Li Zhongyan, Chen Pixing and Ruan Yuming have confessed to the crime.
It has been reported that Huang, 43 years old, was attacked about 100 meters from his home by the three assailants around six in the morning last Monday. He suffered severe stab wounds to his entire body and died later that day in the hospital from massive blood loss.
The director of Lianjiang public security bureau, Chen Xuhua has commented that it looked more like a revenge attack and that nobody had hired the three alleged assassins. However, he did elaborate any further on how the investigation was going.
The younger brother of the victim, Huang Zhaoyi, strongly believes that someone who was unsatisfied with a certain reform had killed his brother, the Guangzhou-based Information Times Daily reported. They quoted him saying “It is hard to believe that three people, who my brother never knew, can bear a grudge and kill him.” However, Huang also claimed that he would respect polices discoveries and findings.
The director of Lianjiang public security bureau, Chen Xuhua awarded a person with 30,000 yuan ($4,411) reward after reporting seeing the suspects dumping the motorcycle they had allegedly used into the nearby river. This piece of information was a break through in the cases investigation.
In the wake of the murder, the Lianjiang government is now more alert to security than ever before. On Tuesday it was commented that they will spend nearly 10 million yuan to install security surveillance cameras across the entire city.

Jakarta Correspondent - ReportingAsia.com

A 41 year old man has been missing since the 24th of October. Jeremy Hoyland from Penistone, South Yorkshire, was last seen heading off on a sea scooter to the nearby island Nusa Lembongan in Bali. Mr Hoyland traveled to the island as a race official for the Asian Beach Games. Mr Hoylands’ wife, Jacqui and brother, Nicholas have now flown into Bali to help authories search for their family member. In the mean time a close family friend has offered a reward of $10,000 for his return.

Mr Hoyland was traveling with four friends on hired sea scooter to Nusa Lembongan. He had planned to return to Tanjung Benoa beach in Bali only a few hours after his friends arrived. However, it was five hours later that his friends received a text message on their mobile phone informing them that he was only two miles from the beach but required assistance. But after that text message all contact was lost with him and he has not been seen since.

Rescue coordinator Heru Taryoto told the AFP news agency that an extensive air and sea search had failed to locate Mr Hoyland or his red Yamaha Jet ski. Authorities have asked people in Bali, Lombok Nusa Penida and also small neighbouring islands to help with the search for Mr Hoyland but no one has seen him.

A family friend, Jonathon Oddy commented that Mr Hoyland has more than 10 years experience using sea scooters. Mr Oddy is staying optimistic even though there is still no news and no sightings of his friend yet. There are plans to continue with another air search soon. Mr Oddy has realised that Bali had limited resources and are not willing to examine outside the local area. When the authorities call their search off, Mr Oddy, Nicholas and Jacqui are prepared to charter an aircraft and continue the search on their own. Mr Oddy told the AFP news agency that he knows the Balinese are doing the best they can, but the resources are a lot more limited compared to what they have in the United Kingdom. Mr Oddy also commented how the culture is also very different.

In June, British divers Charlotte Allin, James Manning and Kathleen Mitchinson were rescued off the eastern coast of the country after being missing for two days. It is cases like this that are giving Mr Hoylands relatives and family friends hope that he will be found soon.

Mr Hoyland works for an engineering company, SB Components and Mr Oddy understands that if he is stranded on a smaller island, it could take longer to find him, especially if he ran into heavy waves and rough sea conditions while broken down.

Mr Hoyland was invited to the Asian Beach games because of his expertise in the field. As a former competitor and also because he is on the board of the British Jet Sport Racing Association.

Another family friend, Scott Frazier, the executive director of the International Jet Sports Boating Association has also offered a reward for his safe return. While others have pledged money to help with the search fund.

The Foreign Office is in contact with the Indonesian authorities and is providing support and assistance to Mr Hoyland’s family.

By: Amber Butler-Davis
Staff Reporter

Baby sold for P30,000

On the 15th of October, Alexander Pineda and his wife Marivic, residents of Rizal Avenue in Sta. Cruz were charged with serious illegal detention. The charges were filed to the couple before a Manila Regional Trial Court for allegedly selling their six month old grandson to a teacher in Tondo, Manila for the lump sum of P30,000.

Similar charges were ordered to the 40 year old teacher, Arturo Tolentino by Manila City Prosecutor Jhosep Lopez. All three defendants were refused bail.

The investigation began when the baby’s 25-year-old mother, Jonalyn Calbay, went to the police and filed a complaint. From Calbay’s complaint, the police learnt that the Pinedas ‘borrowed’ the child on the 2nd August in 2007. And why wouldn’t Calbay agree to the arrangement, Alexander Pineda is her Uncle after all.

But when Calbay went to pick up her son from her uncle two days later she was told by the Pinedas that a doctor in Cebu had adopted the child. Like any mother, Calbay demanded answers and pleaded with the Pinedas to have her baby returned to her at once. It was then that the couple confessed to their niece that they had actually sold her new born to Tolentino, the teacher living in Manila. What sort of state would one have to be in to actually sell a member of their family? If the Pinedas thought that their niece was unfit to raise the child then wouldn’t it be best to involve the child services rather than just sell the baby for P30, 000.

Thankfully Calbay was able to get in contact with Tolentino on his mobile phone, but instead of acknowledging that the entire process was a mistake and Calbay had no intention of selling her child, Tolentino said that he was willing to sell the six month old back to her for the same price he had paid, P30, 000.

It was at this moment that Calbay finally went to the police to ask for assistance in getting her baby back to her safely. Once the police understood the circumstances of Calbay and the missing child, they immediately set up an entrapment operation at the Tutuban Mall in Divisora where they were able to successfully arrest Tolentino on September 18, 2007. Nearly six weeks after the purchase of the child had taken place.

Members of the Manila Police District’s Women and Children’ s Concerns Section recovered the six-month-old baby from Tolentino during the operation. Calbay is pleased to have her child back safely but I am sure she will not be letting any one take care of her child any time soon.

Amber Butler-Davis (Staff Reporter)

5 MILLION IN THE JOB LINE!

Could being a College Graduate really be that tough?

If you are a college graduate next year I hope for your sake you already have a job lined up. Throughout China, there will be at least 5.5 million graduates eager to enter into workforce next year, that is 13 percent more than last year.

These students will definitely feel the pressure when trying to secure their perfect job because they will also have to compete with the 700,000 graduates who could not find work in the last year.

Carol Cai, an employee of British market research company TNS told the China Daily how the number of new recruits in the job industry has halved and now most of the positions are only advertising for experienced applications. These pose of rather large problem to the college graduates of 2008. Unless they have some experience in the work place finding a job in their field of study could be tricky.

Students are now being advised to major in more than one field. Education officials have said it will be more beneficial to learn a range of skills rather then concentrating on the ever so popular ones such as banking, finance and trade.

Xiao Jiang, a finance major from Zhejiang University has applied for nearly 20 job positions as research analyst for multinational companies, non-profit organisations and private enterprises. He told the China Daily how even trying to get an interview is a tough enough job itself. Xiao has now stopped questioning wether his studies matches his dream job. The only thing Xiao is concerned about the moment is if he will ever find a job.

Students are already starting to think about staying at College to continue their studies and obtain a higher degree of education. The only problem with this idea is that they will probably encounter the same situation they are in now but with even more competitors.

Students today need to realise that being smart on paper and being smart in the work environment is not the same. There is only so much one can learn from a book in the end they will need to find common sense somewhere. For at least one semester these students should stop relying on a text book and do an internship in a company that is in their field of study. It may only be a short time in the work force but at least it might give them the upper hand when they apply for a job that another 10,000 students are trying to get.

On the other hand, they are running for the hills, literally. Wang Xuming, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education in trying to encourage college graduates to apply for jobs in the Western and rural areas. Already over 20,000 students have signed up to work in the countryside either specialising in education, agriculture and poverty alleviation. Other students have also opted to work in Sichuan, Shaanxi and the Chongquig municipality, regions that were hit by the May 12 quake.

Surprisingly, those students that do opt to work in a rural region for over two years will enjoy favourable treatment in recruitment for government organs and State enterprises. These students will also receive bonus points if they decide to take the civil service exams.

So, the choices our graduates face today are either staying at College longer and becoming a permanent student, fighting the masses for that dream job or working in the countryside. And if those three options don’t work for them, then I guess we will be seeing a lot of local businesses popping up in the near future.

Hong Kong Correspondent

ELUSIVE YETI CONTINUES EVASION TACTICS

A dedicated team of adventurers from Japan claim to have discovered footprints of the legendary Yeti. Many have tried to capture the elusive Yeti on film in its stomping ground in the Himalayas between Nepal and Tibet but so far none have been successful.

Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Expedition said, “The footprints were about 20 centimetres long and looked like a human’s”. Takahashi spoke to a group of people along with his 7 member team and told of the half-man, half-ape, stories of which have captured the imaginations of mountaineers for over a century.

Even after spending a gruelling 42 days on the mountain known as Dhaulagiri which peaks at 7,660 metres, where the team had discovered Yeti traces in the past, they failed to capture the elusive Yeti on camera!

Takahashi was insistant that the footprints they discovered were proof enough of the Yeti’s existence.

“Myself and the other team members have been coming to the Himalayas for years and we can recognise bear, deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of those,” he said.

“We remiain convinced it is real,” he continued. “The footprints and the stories the locals tell make us sure that it is not imaginary.”

Photographs of the prints have been posted on the expeditions’s website, http://www.everest.co.jp/yeti2008/

The team has positioned 9 motion sensitive cameras in an area where on a previous expedition Takahasi thought he saw the Yeti.

“It was about 200 metres away in silhouette. It was walking on two legs like a human and looked about 150 centimetres tall,” said Takahashi.

Not one for quitting Takahashi added that the team had plans to continue the quest, “We will come back as soon as we can.”