100,000 road deaths a year make China's roads the most dangerous in the world. Ann Yuan, coordinator for the Global Road Safety Initiative in Beijing, tells us about the challenges of managing China's growing fleet of cars.

After the events that took place in Lhasa in March, Tibet shot quickly back to the headlines around the world. At times it has been difficult to distinguish between facts and non-facts in both Chinese and Western media reports. But what is the real situation of Tibetans today? What are the territory's biggest challenges? Radio86 talked about these issues with tibetologist Jean-Paul Desimpelaere.

Mary-Anne Toy, China correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers, spoke to Radio86 candidly about covering the events that took place in Tibet last March from a Western standpoint and about the prevailing media environment in China.

China Institute in New York City, founded in 1926, is the oldest establishment of its kind in the United States. Radio86 spoke with Nancy Jervis, the institute's vice president and Confucius Institute dean, about the growing interest in the West towards China.

The European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) based in Brussels serves as a communication link between Asian countries and the European Union Parliament.

China and Japan are on the right path to developing a "culture of trust."

China's political past is a subject that cannot be covered in its entirety in one article. Professor Hans van de Ven from the University of Cambridge helped shed some light on the development of the Chinese political system, its functioning, as well as its future challenges.

It took less than a minute for the almost 3,000 deputies to the NPC to overwhelmingly approve a landmark Property Law, the first to explicitly grant equal protection to public and private properties.

Beijing is going under the surgeon’s knife in order to have a beautifully sculpted face for the Olympics. But after the cuts and the implants, will we have a classic beauty in our hands or something more suitable for b-class adult movies?

The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reveals his views on China's development in this Radio86 exclusive.