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The giant panda Po, voiced by Jack Black, and Master Shifu, voiced
by Dustin Hoffman, in Kung Fu Panda

Hollywood's mix of kung fu and giant pandas is a hit in China

Getting Kung Fu Panda to the silver screen in China took the patience of a martial arts master, but the animated Hollywood take on Shaolin high jinks has got everybody kung-fu fighting in the ancestral home of the giant panda.

Inside Asia

Chan picks fight with Olympics protesters

Thursday, 3 July 2008

The Chinese actor and martial artist Jackie Chan, whose latest role is as a spokesman for the Beijing Olympics in August, has described China's human rights record in Tibet as "ancient history" and accused protesters of being attention-grabbing contrarians seeking television fame.

Mongolia under curfew as poll 'fraud' triggers riots

Thursday, 3 July 2008

Soldiers and armoured vehicles guarded Mongolia's capital yesterday, a day after at least five people died in rioting sparked by allegations of election fraud.

Kashmir tries to defuse shrine riots by revoking deal

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Officials in Indian-administered Kashmir have stepped in to try to defuse a row over the donation of government land to a Hindu shrine which triggered the biggest protests in the area for almost two decades.

A mountain of trash: China closes Everest for clean-up

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Mount Everest, where the air is thin and climbing to the summit is a task to which few are equal, is a terrible place to organise a clean-up operation. But now China is planning to restrict access by climbers to the summit of what they call Mount Qomolangma to allow environmental teams to carry out a huge clean-up of the world's highest rubbish dump.

Knife man kills five Shanghai police officers

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

A man went on a rampage in a police station in Shanghai today, stabbing five officers to death and wounding another five before he was stopped, local media reported.

Protests in China at official 'cover-up' of teenager's death

Monday, 30 June 2008

It is the latest explosive example of how political corruption in China can have a dangerously destabilising impact. Thousands of rioters torched police cars and government office buildings in the south-western province of Guizhou after allegations that local officials covered up a teenage girl's death.