China Plans Modest Memorial for Zhao
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The Chinese government said Thursday it would hold a scaled-down funeral service for Zhao Ziyang, easing its efforts to restrict public mourning for the deposed Communist Party chief after criticism from party elders and others.
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The Chinese authorities will hold a low-key funeral service for Zhao Ziyang, the purged Communist Party chief.
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Former Indian PM Chandra Shekhar, who died from cancer on Sunday, is to be cremated shortly.
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There was little outpouring of grief at the funeral for Indonesia's longest-serving leader  -  only respect and a sense that an era had ended
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Zhao Ziyang, a reformist toppled as  China's Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army  crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in  hospital on Monday, his family said. He was 85.
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China will hold a funeral on Saturday  for Zhao Ziyang, deposed as Communist Party chief in 1989 for  opposing the army crackdown on the Tiananmen Square  demonstrations for democracy, family members said on Thursday.
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Zhao Ziyang, who was ousted as China's Communist Party leader after sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests and became a symbol of the era's shattered hopes, died Monday after 15 years under house arrest. He was 85.
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It has barely been two weeks since former Khmer Rouge commander Ta Mok died, but already plans are afoot to turn his burial site in a former rebel stronghold into a macabre tourist attraction.
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China is preparing to mark Sunday the centenary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, the father of the country's modernization drive, with a flurry of nationalistic and party celebrations.
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A public memorial service for &quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin will be held next week following a private funeral at his beloved zoo last weekend, friends and family have announced.
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China has executed fewer people since the country's highest court was given authority to review death sentences at the start of this year, state media reported on Friday.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's  Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army crackdown on  the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in hospital on  Monday, his family and the government said. He was 85.
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China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, its late supreme leader. For most Chinese the diminutive figure was the man who set the country on a pragmatic reformist
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in hospital on Monday, his family and the government said. He was 85.
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The United States on Tuesday called China's purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, a "man of moral courage" as Beijing strove to downplay coverage of his death.
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Zhao Ziyang, who was purged as China's Communist Party leader after the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, is ill but in stable condition, the government said Tuesday, denying a report that he died.
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China kept a close eye on dissidents Sunday, a sign of the government's unease over potentially widespread mourning over the death of ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who fell from power for sympathizing with pro-democracy demonstrators in 1989.