When things are going wrong, it's easy to point fingers and focus on what's going wrong. Case in point: China's environment. It just seems so easy to dwell on the problems rather than to call attention to what is being done right. That's where China's Green Brothers come in.

Beijing's recent Olympic facelift included a heavy dose of modern city planning. The new Bird's Nest Stadium and the Water Cube aquatics center cater to international sports fans, but the cityscape has received some other quite conspicuous newcomers as well.

Zhang Yimou is undoubtedly one of China's most respected directors. His latest masterpiece – the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics – has only served to enhance his reputation within China as well as introduce him to a wider Western audience. Radio86 was fortunate to catch up with Zhang Yimou in this exclusive interview.

Last July, the organizing committee for the Beijing Olympics selected a composition by Swedish pianist and composer Robert Wells as the official overture for the Games. The opus was selected from among more than a hundred entries to the Official Olympic Overture Competition launched two years ahead of the Games.

Mr. Chen Qigang, composer of the official Theme Song of Beijing Olympic GamesYou and Me, presented an Audi car worth at least US$85,000 to UNICEF China in order to help nurture the music talents and dreams of thousands of out-of-school children in less-developed western China.

Dressed in traditional Chinese robes, holding incense and with threaded needles - girls observed the ancient custom of the Qixi Festival, a lunar calendar festival celebrating a romantic tale, in modern Beijing.

The Shanghai Opera House, the first Chinese musical company dedicated to Western classical opera, is currently touring in northern Europe. This week, the troupe is performing at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in eastern Finland.

The world-famous terracotta warriors and horses, which were buried more than 2,200 years ago as the army guarding China's first emperor's afterlife, have come to Beijing for an exhibition ahead of the Olympics.

China has long waged a war against illegal gambling on its territory, despite the fact that it has a significantly long history of legalized gambling: the very first forms of this type of activity emerged there some three thousand years ago, and the first state lotteries were held in the Tang Dynasty. As the fascination with games of chance grows, China has to consider the possibility of liberalizing the gaming industry, or clamp down even harder on its illegal forms.

A part of the Old Summer Palace's core area, the former residence for China's royal families, is to open to the public for a trial period on Tuesday.