Talking points

Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese civil rights activist who evaded house arrest to escape to the United States last year, is scheduled gives a speech in the British Parliament and address the Oxford Union tomorrow. A parliamentary organisation - the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-life Group - will today present Chen the "Westminster Award" for his contribution to human rights.

A court in Cambridge will hear the case of a man accused of stealing Chinese artworks worth £15 million (HK$176 million) from the university city's Fitzwilliam Museum in April. Thomas Kiely is the fifth person charged over the theft of the 18 "valuable and culturally significant" Chinese artworks, most of them jade, in April last year. Three other men were sentenced to six years in prison for their part in the heist last year. The stolen goods have not yet been recovered.