China

Amnesty International's China Researcher William Nee on the NGO's JV report, with the Omega Research Foundation, titled "China's Trade in Tools of Torture and Repression". Audio

John Vidal, environment editor of The Guardian explains the big business of pandas. Audio

A UN climate change summit opens in a few hours in New York, the first time world leaders have met to talk about global warming since Copenhagen in 2009. 120 heads of state will be there in what UN… Audio

Latest economic figures from China have offset fears of a hard landing for now, but its not all good news. Audio

Cushla McKinney reviews Susan Barker's 'The Incarnations'. The novel is a tale of a modern Beijing taxi driver being pursued by his soulmate across a thousand years of Chinese history. Audio

Why China matters to climate change and climate change matters to China. With Professor Ross Garnaut, research fellow in economics at University of Melbourne. Audio

Chinese communist party anti-corruption officials are looking to investigate suspects in this country. According to a Financial Times investigation, a New Zealand citizen who fled here from Guangzhou… Audio

Writer on historic and contemporary China whose first book is The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention. Audio

Nicola Twilley of The Edible Geography blog has just been in China reporting on the country's refrigeration boom for The New York Times. Audio

In a very wide-ranging conversation Diarmaid MacCulloch talks with Peter Biggs about religious belief in the modern world. As well as authoring a number of award-winning books- including Reformation… Audio

Up The Punks project co-coordinator and photographer John Lake spent three months on an artist's residency in Beijing to record Beijing's growing punk scene with some very entertaining YouTube video… Audio

Insight travels to Washington to explore how NZ can balance relationship between US and China Audio

Professor David Shambaugh is an internationally acclaimed commentator on contemporary China. He is a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, and the Director of the China Policy… Audio

Nurse Isobel Thompson worked for CORSO from 1947-50 during China's brutal civil war, helping orphaned children. She was there because of an appeal to NZ from Madame Sun Yat-sen for qualified staff to… Audio

Peter Griffin's here with bits and bytes from the tech world. Telstra plans to crowdsource broadband access in Australia, and China says no to Windows 8. Audio

Adam Brookes is a former BBC foreign correspondent whose debut thriller novel, Night Heron, has just been published. The jumping-off point for the story is one of Adam's real-life experiences as a… Audio

Demelza Leslie explores if bold trade targets with China are achievable. Audio

Lynda talks to Wen Chin and Michael Powles, the couple who were New Zealand's top diplomatic representatives in China during the events of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Audio

Liz Banas follows NZ's trade and diplomatic mission to China. Audio