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Robots and their potential to do both good and evil have always fascinated humans, and a display of the latest android technology at the Shanghai Expo has done nothing to dampen this enthusiasm. And as you may have guessed, it was in the Japanese pavilion. BON's Tom Spender has more.

Over sixty years after the end of the Second World War, a Japanese company has paid out compensation to Chinese wartime forced-laborers. This is the first time any payment has been made in such a case.

The historic payment was made by the Japanese Nishimatsu Construction Co. to five surviving Chinese former forced laborers.

The events that led up to this week's historic event go back over six decades.

No matter what the topic, it seems that accusations of corruption are never far from the news here in China. In the past few weeks alone, corruption has reared its ugly head in everything from soccer match-fixing and the courts to accident cover-ups and the way funds were apportioned for rebuilding parts of Sichuan following the 2008 earthquake.

It's like an incurable disease. Corruption in China is a major source of frustration among Chinese people. President Hu has called corruption the single most important threat to the power of the Communist Party. Yet the problem seems to be growing.

With corruption cropping up in many areas of society as we've just heard, we asked ordinary Chinese citizens for their views on the topic. Here's what they had to say in today's edition of Straight from the Street.

Today Trip Tips Shaanxi provides information on attractions located in the Hancheng and Weinan areas, such as the Dragon Gate and the Qiao Mausoleum.