Proms Podcast

Obama’s brother pushes Chinese imports on US

Half-brother of US presidential candidate has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid public attention

China buys the silence of grieving parents

Free ‘life insurance’ has been offered to families of children who were killed when schools collapsed

Islamist bombers target Olympics

A militant group has threatened to attack with suicide bombers and biological weapons

China jails monks to silence Olympic protests

Several hundred Tibetan monks are believed to be in prisons as authorities clamp down on non-residents studying in Lhasa

Hundreds arrested in Chinese crackdown

Video: paramilitary police swarm southwestern town after protests against alleged cover-up of teenage girl's death

The hunt for the 27cm long endangered animal

China sack officials for publishing fake photos of a South China tiger

China braced for more flooding misery

Officials warn of 'black June' as forecasts show no let-up in torrential rains which have so far killed 171 people

90 per cent of pandas in jeopardy after quake

The 1,590 animals living in the wild are facing their most severe crisis in decades, Chinese officials announce

Beijing ignored quake warnings

Chinese officials ignored warnings from five seismologists that a strong earthquake would strike Sichuan this year

Picture this: a lost Tibet

Can the new China outlive the relief effort?

The unprecedented access allowed to foreign aid workers could signal a shift in policy by the Communist rulers

Dalai Lama offers help

Tibet’s spiritual leader has made a goodwill gesture to China by announcing that he wants to donate to the Chinese earthquake fund

Parents’ grief turns to anger at shoddily built deathtrap schools

Local officials are being accused of corruption after the collapse of over 6,900 classrooms in China's Sichuan province

1 million Chinese flee new threat of flooding

More than a million people are on the move to escape the new danger of floods in remote areas blocked by earthquake debris

Why did so many Chinese schools collapse?

Nearly 7,000 classrooms were destroyed in earthquake and parents are demanding to know why from the Beijing government

Shipping sector rides wave of boom in trade

Rapid economic growth in China and India has led to a boom in world trade, which has brought good times for the industry

Postman Pat and his cat to make China debut

Entertainment Rights agree crucial licensing a fortnight after the first episodes aired on the national children’s channel

Familiar bright red van heads to Guangzhou

In the fight to win over the Chinese, Postman Pat has a huge trump card: the likely support of China’s propaganda tsars

Postman Pat and his cat to make China debut

Entertainment Rights to show legendary children's characters on TV in countries including Thailand and South Africa

Sightseeing on an Olympic Beijing trip

Adrian McPherson wants to see the Great Wall while he's in China for the games

Shanghai shopping with Lucia van der Post

From one-stop bazaars to warehouses full of modern art - the hunt for Lucia's favourite outlets

Holidays from Hong Kong

Derrick Mitra is moving to the city and wants to know where he should visit from there

How to get around Beijing

Anthony Ahmoye had a bad experience with buses and taxis - is there a better way to navigate Beijing?