Jackie Chan is more than just a martial artist who can act in movies. He’s a cultural icon in China. As such, anything he says or does impacts a nation of one-point-four billion people. Chan hasn’t been without controversy during his career, but a new dispute involving his shampoo could be the one to end it. And as Susan Tart tells us, it may damage much more than just his locks.

Ancius introduces the Chinese characters for “yesterday”, “today” and “tomorrow”.

Now the word cancer is still enough to send a shiver down the spine and, despite advances in medical science, the disease still seems to defy attempts to come up with a cure. But this week many the world's top cancer specialists are in Beijing. They're here for the World Conference on Interventional Oncology (the WCIO)。

BON's Fergus Thompson brings us more on the latest fronts in the ongoing war against the deadly disease.