China&#39;s finance minister resigns
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China&#39;s Finance Minister Jin Renqing has quit and been demoted to a think tank, a government spokesman said Thursday, amid reports he was sacked for his role in a sex scandal.
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A top economic aide to ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resigned Wednesday from his position in the current military-appointed government following sharp criticism from pro-democracy groups.
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Japanâs new agriculture minister resigned Monday, only a week after his appointment, because of a scandal involving misuse of farm subsidies.
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The head of Taiwan's main opposition party, Ma Ying-jeou, resigns after being accused of fraud.
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Croatian Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul has resigned following accusations of corruption, which he has denied.
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A newly-appointed Thai economics chief resigns after protests over his links to the former prime minister.
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China&#39;s former Communist Party chief and president, Jiang Zemin, plans to leave government, resigning from his last official position.
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Nine officials and business leaders are expelled from China's Communist Party, over a corruption scandal.
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PARIS, Nov 29  - Nicolas Sarkozy, an ambitious politician aiming to replace Jacques Chirac as French president, resigned as finance minister Monday to concentrate on his new job leading Chirac&#39;s conservative ruling party.
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Italy's prime minister resigned Wednesday after his center-left government Wednesday lost a key foreign policy vote.Comment
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BEIJING : Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin&#39;s resignation as his country&#39;s military chief marks the complete orderly transfer of power from the third to the fourth generation of leaders.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy resigned Monday in order to take over the leadership of the ruling center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, French TF1 television quoted government officials as saying.
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WASHINGTON Jiang Zemin&#39;s surprise resignation of his chairmanship of China&#39;s Central Military Commission on Sunday marks a critical turning point in an otherwise murky and uncertain process of leadership succession in Beijing that began nearly two years
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The head of Taiwan's main opposition party, Ma Ying-jeou, resigns after fraud charges.
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Former president Jiang Zemin has given up the top job in China&#39;s military, 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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Ruling Uri Party chairman Shin Ki-nam made his resignation official in a press briefing following an emergency party meeting earlier in the day.
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The chief executive and chief finance officer of America&#39;s second-largest financial institution, mortgage provider Fannie Mae, have stepped down following a row over accounting irregularities.