China's vice president steps down
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China's politically powerful vice president stepped down Sunday amid a reshuffling of the Communist Party leadership, removing from office a rival to President Hu Jintao.
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Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that China's recent anti-satellite weapons test and a rapid military buildup were "not consistent" with its stated aim of a peaceful rise as a global power.
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Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renqing resigns for personal reasons, the government announces.
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Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong retired from the Communists' upper ranks on Sunday, bolstering Party boss Hu Jintao's grip on power and clearing the way for a younger generation of potential successors.
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BEIJING, June 2 -- Vice Premier Huang Ju, a reformer who helped guide China through a period of swift economic change, died in a Beijing hospital early Saturday after a long illness, the government announced. He was reported to be suffering from cancer and had largely disappeared from public view in...
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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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China replaced its finance minister on Thursday amid media reports that he was involved in a sex scandal just weeks ahead of a major Communist Party meeting that will set the country's policies for the next five years.
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BEIJING - The Chinese Communist Party said yesterday that three of its most powerful leaders were retiring, opening the way for a new generation including the eventual successor of President Hu Jintao as head of the world's most populous nation. The announcement marked the latest step in a carefully orchestrated sequence of decisions at the party's weeklong 17th National Congress, ...
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Ailing leader Fidel Castro resigns as Cuba's president
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The head of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's party said Friday he would step down after a campaign mudslinging scandal.
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Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin gives up his last official position as head of the military.
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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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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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Chinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan left Beijing on Monday afternoon, kicking off his official visit to Germany and Spain.
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The chairman of Taiwan's ruling DPP party, You Shyi-kun, resigns after being charged with corruption.
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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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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.