China Vice President out of new Party lineup
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China's Communists began winding up a five-yearly Congress on Sunday by announcing the Vice President was out of the new Party lineup, making way for President Hu Jintao to install potential successors.
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Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong has been offered the top job in a government advisory body, dimming his allies' hopes that he might one day become president, sources with ties to the leadership said on Thursday.
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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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China's Vice Premier Huang Ju died in the early hours of the morning on Saturday after a long illness, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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BEIJING - Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era on Sunday with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post - giving a new generation a freer hand to run the world's most populous nation.    Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee that ended Sunday...
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KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai dismissed a powerful warlord from his post as provincial governor Saturday in the latest move to solidify the central governmentâs control of wayward provinces ahead of Octoberâs landmark polls.
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Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China yesterday as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post.
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The Communist Party secretary of   Shanghai has been dismissed for corruption, state media   announced on Monday, the highest official to be felled by a   graft probe since Hu Jintao became national party boss in 2002.
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BEIJING - China replaced its finance minister yesterday amid rumors that he might be involved in a sex scandal, and a new chief of secret police was also named. The reshuffle appeared aimed at putting President Hu Jintao's allies in key positions before a Communist Party meeting that will set policies for the next five years.
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Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres yesterday waived his demand to serve as vice prime minister in the upcoming coalition, and instead will be a deputy premier.
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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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The interim vice president has emerged as a surprise front-runner to assume the powerful post, although the frenetic negotiations among parties on forming the next government are far from complete.
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A Communist Party whistle-blower who rose to brief fame in China by denouncing official corruption has been relieved of his duties and placed under a form of house arrest while authorities investigate his conduct, friends and neighbors said Thursday.
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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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China's ruling Communist Party on Monday unveils a new leadership line-up to steer the world's fourth-biggest economy for the next five years, with President Hu Jintao likely to promote younger potential successors.
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BEIJING, Aug. 30 -- The Chinese government announced Thursday that five senior officials were being replaced, including the finance and state security ministers, as part of a broad realignment leading up to a crucial Communist Party congress in October.
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Three of China's most powerful politicians, including Vice President Zeng Qinghong, have stood down, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.