China’s political elite has been shaken by a lurid new scandal over the death of a senior official’s son who crashed his Ferrari during what appeared to be a sex session with two women.

A second storm was heading towards Burma’s devastated Irrawaddy delta region tonight.

China today expelled a US-based Chinese sociologist convicted of spying for Taiwan, a US official said.

A Chinese court has convicted an American business professor of spying, and ordered that he be expelled.