Mr Willetts' comments come after Telegraph reporters filmed staff at an agency in China saying it could help a student get into certain UK universities with three C or B grades at A-level.

BBC: Willetts warns universities over foreign student grades

It will be filmed for possible screening in the UK and China in March.

BBC: Artist turns to China for clay army

In Chongqing, 21 government officials and senior managers of state-owned enterprises have been punished in connection with a sex-tape scandal last year in which they were blackmailed after their sex acts were secretly filmed, China Daily reports.

BBC: China media: Cyber espionage

The action, loosely based on a true story and filmed on location at and near a Utah university (and, briefly, in China), concerns Liu Xing (Liu Ye), a brilliant young astrophysicist from Beijing who travels to the United States for graduate study under Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), a scientist whose work he admires but whose best years and ideas are behind him.

NEWYORKER: Dark Matter

Song Ke, the boss, says that he has already placed his clients in a television commercial to be filmed next month for Pepsi Cola, one of China's largest advertisers.

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