Chinese Vice-Premier Huang dies
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Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju, one of the most senior leaders in China, dies aged 68, official media say.
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One of Paraguay's top health officials died Friday of dengue fever, the latest casualty in an epidemic that has infected thousands of people.
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The chief financial officer of China's dominant Internet search engine Baidu.com has died after an accident while on vacation in China, the company said.
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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 has executed a former state banker for embezzlement and accepting bribes, state media said on Wednesday, days after a senior Communist Party official was put to death for blowing up his mistress with a car bomb.
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China sentences the former head of its Food and Drug Administration to death for corruption, state media says.
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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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PHILIPPINE movie star Fernando Poe, who nearly unseated President Gloria Arroyo in hotly contested polls this year, passed away today.
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FORMER PRIME Minister PV Narasimha Rao passed away in New Delhi on Thursday. Rao, who was 83 years old, had been critically ill for the last two weeks.
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Chief financial officer of China's leading search engine dies over holiday.
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A seventh person has died following a shooting at a Chinese restaurant in northern Germany, police said Tuesday.
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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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The president of the United Arab Emirates, who helped forge a federation from seven Persian Gulf states and ruled it since its creation, has died, Abu Dhabi TV said.
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A Beijing court sentenced the former head of China&#39;s food and drug administration to death Tuesday on corruption charges for accepting bribes in return for granting approvals to hundreds of medicines.
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PV Narasimha Rao, a former prime minister of India, has died of heart failure. Mr. Rao died in a New Delhi hospital two weeks after he was admitted for a cardiac problem.
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MANILA Fernando Poe Jr., the popular actor who challenged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the presidential elections this year, died early Tuesday.
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Bulgaria&#39;s Vice President Anguel Marin will attend the funeral of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died at 3:30 am Paris time on Thursday.