Estrada to leave for Hong Kong Monday
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MANILA -- Former president Joseph Estrada will be leaving Monday for Hong Kong to undergo knee surgery. Estrada&#39;s trip to Hong Kong was first scheduled last December 23 but for security reasons, it was moved to December 26.
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Joseph Estrada, the jailed former leader of the Philippines, walked free on Friday as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced criticism for pardoning the playboy movie star.
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China's Communist Party is due to wrap  up a four-day meeting on Sunday at which military chief Jiang  Zemin is expected to give up his last post, completing a  historic leadership succession.
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The chief White House spokesman today announced plans to leave his post on Sept. 14.
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These are some of the leading stories in Hong Kong newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
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Henry A. "Hank" Crumpton, the chief of the State Department's counterterrorism office and a key strategist in the war in Afghanistan, will announce today that he is leaving government in the new year, a senior State Department official said yesterday.
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China&#39;s former Communist Party chief and president, Jiang Zemin, plans to leave government, resigning from his last official position.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao left Beijing Tuesday afternoon for Hague, the Netherlands , to attend the Seventh China-EU Leaders' Meeting scheduled on Dec.
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ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz left on Sunday for a four-day official visit to three South Asian member countries for talks on regional and bilateral matters.
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A senior Hong Kong hospital official criticized for his handling of the Chinese territory&#39;s Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome crisis will resign at the end of this year.
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Manila tightens security ahead of the verdict in the corruption trial of ex-Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
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The head of the Organization of  American States plans to announce his resignation on Friday  after only two weeks in the job to defend himself against  corruption allegations in his native Costa Rica.
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Tony Blair will leave office on July 26,   the Sun newspaper reported in its Wednesday edition, as the   increasingly unpopular prime minister faced growing pressure to   quit from within his own Labour Party.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell will travel on Monday to the area devastated by the Asian tsunami disaster, a White House spokesman said today.
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President Roh Moo-hyun left on Sunday for Vientiane to attend the two-day annual meeting of South Asian leaders and discuss ways to resolve the dispute over North Korea's nuclear program and improve South ...
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Mr Latham is due to leave St Vincent&#39;s hospital in Sydney after being treated for pancreatitis. Mr Latham says he is feeling much better and expects to be back at work next week.
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Hong Kong media reported Tuesday that journalist Ching Cheong, who was jailed in mainland China on spying charges, has been released and will return to Hong Kong