Dog off the menu

Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month’s Olympics and September’s Paralympics.

18 year old Chinese man arrested over model murder

Police said they arrested Chen Jun Friday morning local time in Anhi province, west of Shanghai, after surveillance footage led investigators to suspect his alleged involvement in the murder of O’Brien, 22, who was found dead in the stairwell of the Shanghai apartment where she lived.

Now cleaner found O’Brien’s body in China

A cleaning lady’s testimony has ripped a small hole through the veil of secrecy draped by Shanghai police over the final moments of B.C. model Diana Gabrielle O’Brien’s life, whose bloodied body was found on the stairwell of the apartment building where she lived.

22 year old BC Model found dead

O’Brien was a week into a three-month modelling contract with Jh Model Agency in Shanghai but was homesick and had planned to return to Canada on July 24 or 25.

Chinese Lanterns brighten worn Fantasy

By the time they finish, more than 50 massive lanterns – some as tall as 25 metres and one as long as 450 metres – will be painstakingly constructed and lit up at night all summer long.

Olympic Torch Relay locks China’s Silk Road

Shops lining Wednesday’s torch route were shuttered and police stood guard on every street corner. Soldiers and firefighters patrolled the main square of a city seen as the heart of Islam in China’s oil-rich border region of Xinjiang.

Podcast: The World Today – Burma’s Ruling General

Burma’s ruling generals continue to refuse to grant visas to
international aid agency workers.
Only a trickle of aid has reached the commercial capital Rangoon close to the worst-hit areas and the junta is insisting that government officials distribute the relief supplies.

Podcast: China and Japan dictates mood of Asia

Political relations have been tense and mistrustful.
China’s current president Hu Jintao has started a three-day visit to Japan that both countries hope will open an era of partnership in place of rivalry.

Podcast: The World Today – Zimbabwe’s fear and violence

Insight into the events following on from Zimbabwe’s March elections. The climate in Zimbabwe is one of fear and violence as stories emerge from rural Zimbabwe of Mugabe’s militia’s and paid thugs.