A student from China who was lured to Thailand from Australia by a kidnap gang who threatened to force her into pornographic films, and even to sell her internal organs if her family failed to pay a ransom demand, has been found safe and well.
A woman in China who was handed a six-month suspended jail term for growing more than 900 opium poppy plants on the roof of her house says she was given the seeds by her late father and liked to use them for cooking her favourite dishes.