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The Tate’s Turbine Hall has been filled with sunflower seeds. 100 million of them, weighing about 150 tonnes, carpet the Hall’s eastern flank. A few centimetres deep, they crunch charmingly when walked across. The blurb for Chinese artist’s Ai Weiwei’s installation, the 11th in the …

Fresh from buying Harrods off Lord Fug himself, Qatar Holdings have set out big plans for their £1.5 billion acquisition. Actually, ‘brand’ might be a more apposite word: the new owners are hoping to cash in on the Harrods name by building a store in …

Yesterday marked the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the event which saw a brutal confrontation between pro-democracy protestors and the People’s Liberation Army. Amnesty International and survivors Shao Jiang and Ze Xia gathered outside of the Chinese Embassy in London to commemorate lost …

While Chinese New Year celebrations went on yesterday, a rather less happy public gathering was taking place outside the Chinese Embassy in Portland Place. Five members of a Free Tibet protest group were arrested after vaulting the barriers in an attempt to approach Chinese Premier …

An electronic iconic TX4 cab has been on the environmentally concerned cards for a few months but now Chinese car maker, Geely Automobile, who are part owners of our own impressive sounding hometown manufacturers, Manganese Bronze, are pushing ahead with research on converting existing diesel …

Taking to the stage at the Handover Party in Beijing, his successful flag-unfurling and debut on the international stage complete, Mayor Boris Johnson finally returned to a theme he has occasionally expounded since his election in May: expanding the capital’s lexicon. Having re-introduced us to …

Amnesty International today recreated the iconic ‘tank man’ image, of a lone demonstrator – here, survivor Shao Jiang – facing down tanks at Tiananmen Square, outside Amnesty’s London headquarters in the run up to the 19th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown against pro-democracy protesters in …

Tell us something we didn’t know: London is the most expensive city to live in worldwide, according to UBS research. Pro-Tibet protesters target British Museum’s First Emperor exhibit. Heathrow to charge drivers £20 to drop off passengers if sixth terminal proposal is approved. In other …

Richard Scudamore of the Premier League has not been the most popular footballing figure of the last few weeks. The executives overseeing football in favoured destinations for his plan of playing Premier League matches abroad, such as China, Thailand and the USA, have lined up …