China's vice-president loses post
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China's vice-president is dropped from the Communist Party central committee, as the 17th congress ends.
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The pro-independence party of Taiwan  President Chen Shui-bian suffered a surprise defeat in weekend  legislative elections that could ease tensions with China but  paralyze government on the democratic island.
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With the death of Zhao Ziyang on Monday, China has lost one of the few senior political voices who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre as well as its most famous political prisoner.
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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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Capping a rocky but peaceful transition of power, China&#39;s ruling Communist Party on Sunday eased former paramount leader Jiang Zemin out of his last formal post as head of the military
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BEIJING - Former president Jiang Zemin turned over his last major post as chairman of the commission that runs China's military to his successor Hu Jintao, the government said Sunday, completing the country's first peaceful leadership transition since its 1949 revolution.    Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, handed in his resignation during a meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee, the official Xinhua News Agency said in a brief dispatch...
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Former president Jiang Zemin gave up the top job in China&#39;s military Sunday, handing over his last post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao to complete a historic leadership transition to a younger generation.
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Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju, a protege of former leader Jiang Zemin, died early on Saturday after a long illness, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's party  suffered a surprise defeat on Saturday in elections likely to  be welcomed in Beijing as a step back from what it sees as  dangerous moves toward independence from mainland China.
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Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye dismissed Vice-President Alphonse Marie Kadege on Wednesday for failing in his main mission of assisting the head of state.
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Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi on  Thursday left President George W. Bush &quot;disappointed&quot; over  Beijing&#39;s reluctance to open its markets and faced more  complaints from the U.S. Congress about China&#39;s trade and  currency policies.
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Chinese vice-premier ranked world's second-most powerful woman NEW YORK, Fri.: China's Deputy Prime Minister Wu Yi and Singapore state investment chief Ho Ching have knocked US Secretary of State Condoleezza ... via New Straits Times
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BEIJING, June 2 -- Vice Premier Huang Ju, a reformer who helped guide China through a period of swift economic change, died in a Beijing hospital early Saturday after a long illness, the government announced. He was reported to be suffering from cancer and had largely disappeared from public view in...
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Former Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin has stepped down from his final post of the Communist Party of China, handing over the Party&#39;s top military position to President Hu Jintao.
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Closing a weeklong Communist Party congress, delegates selected a new Central Committee, with Vice President Zeng Qinghong not among those selected.
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Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju, ranked number six in China&#39;s ruling Communist Party hierarchy, died early Saturday, state media reported.
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Burundi's vice-president is sacked for insubordination, amid serious divisions in the ruling party.