Taiwan's ruling party chairman resigns
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The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party resigned Saturday after prosecutors indicted him on graft charges, while the island's vice president, facing similar charges, said she would fight the allegations.
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The president of troubled retailer Daiei announced his resignation Friday, two days after he was forced by lenders to seek a government bailout.
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A one-time key aide to deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Wednesday quit his post at the head of the military government's new economics team, less than a week after he was appointed.
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Hong Kong Hospital Authority&#39;s (HA) Director of Professional Services and Human Resources Ko Wing-man announced here Friday he will resign from his post after his contract ends in December.
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Italy's former justice minister, who resigned over a corruption probe, withdraws his party from the ruling coalition.
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Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya resigns as part of a new deal to set up a national unity government.
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China's politically powerful vice president stepped down Sunday amid a reshuffling of the Communist Party leadership, removing from office a rival to President Hu Jintao.
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The chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri  Party resigned on Thursday after saying his father had served  as a military police officer during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial  rule on the peninsula.
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The chairman of on-line gambling website Sportingbet has resigned following his recent arrest in the United States, the group announced.
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Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra quit as head of the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party on Tuesday, signaling the de facto collapse of a political machine that had dominated the country until last month's coup.
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The leader of New Zealand's main opposition party, Don Brash, quits after weeks of mounting speculation.
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A top economic aide to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resigned Wednesday from his position in the current military-appointed government following sharp criticism from pro-democracy groups.
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The head of South Korea&#39;s governing party has resigned over disclosures that his father collaborated with the Japanese during their occupation more than half a century ago.
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Reviled by China as a "splittist" fit only for the "dustbin of history", former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui has shaken up the island's political scene by distancing himself from the pro-independence camp, analysts say.
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Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned as head of his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party, triggering the dissolution of its entire executive in the wake of last month's military coup, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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SEOUL The chairman of Korea&#39;s governing party resigned on Thursday after it was disclosed that he had covered up his late father&#39;s military service during Japan&#39;s colonial rule.
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The chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri  Party resigned Thursday, an unexpected first casualty of  President Roh Moo-hyun's call for an inquiry into who benefited  from working with Korea's Japanese colonial rulers.