The closing ceremony of the Paralympics will be held tonight at 8pm local time, with China topping the medals tally.

China's third largest airline China Southern has announced it wants to hire one hundred of the 250 volunteers who served as ceremony hostesses at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games, CRI reports.

China Radio International (CRI) will broadcast a live interview with Paralympians in various languages at 2pm Beijing time tomorrow, September 11.

Pakistani powerlifter Naveed Ahmed Butt became the first Paralympic athlete to test positive for a banned substance.

Paralympic swimmers set a total of 15 new world records on Sunday at the Water Cube aquatics center in Beijing.

Around 4,000 athletes will gather at the Bird's Nest in Beijing tonight for the opening ceremony of the biggest Paralympic Games in history.

Starting tomorrow, Beijing will lift a part of the restrictions now regulating the number of cars on the city's roads.

Athletes who contributed to China's unprecedented gold medal haul will receive cash rewards, state media reported.

Liu Qi, the President of the Beijing 2008 Organizing Committee (BOCOG), received the Olympic Order in Gold on Monday from the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) President Jacques Rogge.

The curtain came down last night on the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a spectacular extravaganza to celebrate the success of what have been hailed by many as the best Games ever.