WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- Enter the Dragon in Middle East politics. No, this is not the title of a remake of an old Bruce Lee film; rather, this title refers to China's new policies in countering Western influence for a piece of the Middle East's most important commodity -- oil.

SEATTLE, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- A group of University of Washington students has collected more than 1,000 signatures as part of an effort to have a memorial built to Bruce Lee.

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007.

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ZITISTE, Serbia, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A statue of Rocky Balboa towers over a Balkans farm town and Tarzan is coming as the former war-torn region embraces Hollywood heroes.

BEIJING, April 11 (UPI) -- China Central Television, the country's national broadcaster, has begun shooting a 40-part television series on the late kung fu master Bruce Lee.

HOLLYWOOD, March 22 (UPI) -- "The Green Hornet," which tracks the exploits of a millionaire publisher and his crime-fighting alter ego, has been picked up by Hollywood's Columbia Pictures.

SHUNDE, China, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A theme park honoring Chinese-American martial arts star Bruce Lee is planned for the city in China where his family lived.

UPI almanac for Monday, Nov. 27, 2006.