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A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such alcohol poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business work, an official newspaper reported Monday.
Google Inc. faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to keep Internet users away following its reports on a copyright dispute.
The last of China's first group of generals under the ruling Communist Party has died at the age of 106, state media said Wednesday.
The top anti-graft body of China's Communist Party plans to require government officials to disclose details of their investments and information about their family members as part of an ongoing effort to curb corruption seen as a major threat to political stability.
Vietnamese police arrested another blogger, her mother and diplomats said Friday, as authorities continued a crackdown against writers who have criticized Communist Party policies online.
Tourist arrivals in the volatile western region of Xinjiang have plummeted since July's deadly ethnic rioting, Chinese state media say.
A federal judge ordered the Cuban government and the ruling Communist Party on Wednesday to pay $27.5 million in damages to the mother of a journalist jailed since a 2003 crackdown on dissent.
A Vietnamese blogger who criticized the Communist Party's policies has been detained by police, his close friend said Monday, days after another popular blogger was fired from his job at a state-controlled newspaper.
China's ruling Communist Party has ordered local officials to meet regularly with people complaining of injustices in a bid to stop them from traveling to Beijing to petition the central government.
China refused an Afghan airliner permission to land after intelligence indicated a possible threat from separatists seeking independence for the restive western region of Xinjiang, an official Communist Party newspaper said Tuesday.
Raul Castro announced Saturday that Cuba will cut spending on education and health care, potentially weakening the building blocks of its communist system in a bid to revive a foundering economy.
It may be the most enigmatic corner of Europe: a hardscrabble communist holdout run by a dour president who still keeps a bust of Lenin on his desk.
The Communist Party boss of a Chinese city and head of law enforcement were dismissed Saturday for mishandling violent protests last month after a young man's mysterious death, a state news agency said.
Security forces kept a firm grip on the tense Xinjiang capital Thursday after days of ethnic violence that killed 156 people, and alarmed Chinese leaders vowed to deal firmly with those behind the attacks.
The Communist Party official responsible for a key industrial zone in northern China has been fired and expelled from the party over graft allegations, state media reported Wednesday.
A Chinese woman who became a folk hero after fatally stabbing a Communist Party official to fend off his demands for sex was freed by a court Tuesday, a decision that likely avoided a storm of public criticism over the carefully watched case.
A former aide to deposed Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang says he and three other men helped Zhao record and compile his memoirs, published this month just before the 20th anniversary of the crackdown that saw him thrown out of office.
China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday defended the brutal quelling of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, while ignoring questions about a new memoir by a former Communist Party leader ousted for opposing the crackdown.
Moldova's former president was voted head of parliament Tuesday by his Communist Party colleagues, but three opposition parties boycotted the ballot, claiming the country's April 5 election was rigged.
A new English-language paper published by China's Communist Party hit newsstands on Monday — part of Beijing's efforts to raise its profile on the global stage and find an international audience for the party line.
Under a big red flag, the headquarters of the Communist Party of Japan are the center of the most vibrant grass-roots movement in the country. The party's ranks are swelling, it has 24,000 branch offices and more than a million people read its newspaper. Only one party — the one that runs the country — beats it at fundraising.
In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judiciary are not fully free.
Two of Cuba's most prominent officials have resigned from all Communist Party and government posts after they were criticized by Fidel Castro, as a major leadership house-cleaning continued to send shock-waves through the country's power structure.
A court in western China has sentenced two Tibetan nuns to lengthy prison terms for taking part in anti-government demonstrations last year, amid reports of more clashes between Tibetans and security forces, advocacy groups reported Friday.
BEIJING – The number eight is considered so auspicious here that the Chinese leadership decided to launch the Summer Olympic Games at 8 p.m. on the eighth day of the eighth month of the year.
China sentences notorious gang 'godmother'Dubbed the "godmother" of the Chinese underworld, she was notorious for her toughness and a lavish lifestyle that reportedly included luxury villas and a stable of 16 young lovers.
From CNN: 'Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh... communism still can win'. By Frank Miele. Sunday, October 4, 2009 2:00 am.Reporter Carol Costello had a report on CNN's "American Morning" Friday asking whether the time was ripe for a third party in the United States.
After 60 years, China's Communists mean businessShortly after the Communist Party took power in China, capitalists in Shanghai paraded through the streets with drums and flags, asking the Party to take over their businesses.
'I want to be corrupt'. 2009-09-04 17:01Beijing - A six-year-old girl has become a media darling in China on her first day of school by expressing her aspiration to become a "corrupt official" when she grows up, state media said on Friday.
Chile: 129 to be arrested on 'dirty war' chargesA Chilean judge orders the arrest of 129 former security officials in the disappearance of leftists and the slaying of the communist party leadership during the Pinochet dictatorship.
Rio Tinto: Will China's detention of employees scare off foreign firms? - Yahoo! NewsEmployees of an Australian iron ore firm are being detained for stealing state secrets in china and being accused of industrial espionage.
Court frees woman who stabbed Chinese officialA Chinese woman who became a folk hero after fatally stabbing a Communist Party official to fend off his demands for sex has been freed by a court.
Bullets Over BeijingIt was exactly 20 years ago that I stood on the northwest corner of Tiananmen Square and watched "People's China" open fire on the people.
Tiananmen Square Scars Soldier Turned Artist Soaked in sweat, his heart racing, Chen Guang descended the steps of China's Great Hall of the People and aimed his automatic rifle at the sea of student protesters occupying Tiananmen Square. A 17-year-old soldier from the countryside, Mr.
Mongolia marks conqueror's anniversaryEight-hundred years after Genghis Khan conquered and united Mongolia, current leaders are identifying with him as a way to forget the country's communist past.
Protests erupt in Nepal after firing of army chiefNepal's prime minister fired the army chief Sunday after a struggle over admitting former Maoist rebel fighters to the military, sparking mass protests.
Communist Party Surges As Japan's Economy WithersUnder a big red flag, the headquarters of the Communist Party of Japan are the center of the most vibrant grass-roots movement in the country. The party's ranks are swelling, it has 24,000 branch offices and more than a million people read its newspaper.
Every story needs a villain, but not as much as both political parties need their boogeymen. In this era of endless negative politics, both parties love to vilify their enemies, and when legitimate enemies do not exist, they invent them. They NEED enemies.
A Wake-Up Call for the KremlinFor the first time in recent memory, the heavy hitters of international election monitoring -- the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament -- were in agreement with …
Exit poll: Communists win elections in MoldovaThe ruling Communist Party easily won parliamentary elections in Moldova on Sunday, an exit poll showed.
A Dirty Pun Tweaks China's Online Censors - NYTimes.comA YouTube children's song about the beast has drawn nearly 1.4 million viewers. A grass-mud horse cartoon has logged a quarter million more views. A nature documentary on its habits attracted 180,000 more. Stores are selling grass-mud horse dolls.
Foreign Policy: China's West BankLast week, as Chinese police fanned out across the Tibetan plateau, the chairman of Tibet's government made a hushed departure from the official line on the unrest that erupted into violence there last year.
China condemns Western democracyThe head of China's rubber-stamp parliament cited Western democracy no less than nine times in a speech Monday - to illustrate what the country would not become.
Raul Castro shakes up Cuba's leadershipPresident Raul Castro shook up Cuba's top leadership on Monday, replacing key figures tied to his brother Fidel Castro with others apparently closer to him.
Feb. 24 -- The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist (UCPN-M) discussed today over what role the Party should take in providing support and execution in implementing government initiatives in order to ensure effectiveness and efficacy.
What shoe? China media hushes 'disturbance'China's foreign ministry and media on Tuesday denounced a man who hurled his shoe at the country's premier on a visit to Britain - all while avoiding explicit descriptions of the protest itself.
Communist Party Chief: U.S. On Road To SocialismBarack Obama is a "friend" of the left who will make important changes to the U.S., including a hoped-for trillion-dollar stimulus package focused on low-income families as well as a reconfiguring of the role and function of the American government and corporations to favor worki …
Raul Castro says he'd meet Obama at GitmoCuban President Raul Castro said in an interview released Wednesday that he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on "neutral ground" - and he suggested the U.S.� base at Guantanamo Bay.
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