Mao's body removed from view
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Mao Zedong's body is removed from public display for six months as his Beijing mausoleum is renovated.
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Reports that portraits of North Korean  leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a "groundless  fabrication," China's Xinhua news agency quoted a Foreign  Ministry official on Friday as saying in Pyongyang.
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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 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.
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An Associated Press photographer saw a number of bodies inside the courtyard that was cordoned off by police.
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The draft of an article penned by Indian  independence leader Mahatma Gandhi days before his 1948  assassination has been withdrawn from auction and will be sold  to the Indian government, Christie&#39;s auctioneers said on  Monday.
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All eyes are on Hu as he takes control of the worldâs most populous state. here was reason to breathe a sigh of relief Sunday as Chinaâs former President Jiang Zemin ceded control over the military to his successor, Hu Jintao.
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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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You can see it from the east side of Tiananmen Square, not far from the site where the student protestor stood resolutely in front of the advancing tank in the infamous photograph from 1989
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Chinese leaders imposed a ban on news reports about the death of Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on protesters.
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China's president, Hu Jintao, replaced Jiang Zemin as the country's military chief to complete the first orderly transfer of power in Communist Party history.
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NANJIE, China -- The sky is still black when the village loudspeaker blazes the revolutionary song "The East Is Red." A three-story-high statue of Chairman Mao looms over a square flanked by giant portraits of the socialist all-stars: Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.
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Portraits of former US president Richard Nixon which were hung in the Norwegian parliament have been removed after a number of the country's parliamentarians complained that the paintings were &quot;shocking&quot;, officials said.
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Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife.
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China's state newspapers stuck closely  to script on Sunday, printing only the official news agency's  report on the cremation of former leader Zhao Ziyang, purged  for opposing the use of force to end protests in 1989.
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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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Chinese leaders imposed a ban on reports about the death of Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on protesters.
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Chinese authorities have demolished a statue of a Buddhist master at Tibet's oldest monastery, an activist group said Friday, the latest act in what critics say is an effort by Beijing to dilute Tibet's unique Buddhist culture.