Police closed off Lhasa's Muslim quarter on Friday, two weeks after Tibetan rioters burned down the city's mosque amid the largest anti-Chinese protests in nearly two decades.
In just six months, China's apparent heir to the leadership has vaulted from Shanghai boss to a spot in the ruling Communist Party's inner sanctum and an unusually visible role overseeing preparations for the Olympic Games.
China disclosed Monday that suspicious liquids were found on a flight headed to Beijing from a far western Muslim region, and Olympic organizers tried to dismiss fears that the summer games were under threat.
The U.S. military is exaggerating China's threat against Taiwan to justify arms sales to the island, the Communist Party's main newspaper said Thursday.
Raul Castro may be president, but the real change in Cuba is from mostly one-man to broader Communist Party rule.
Raul Castro, Cuba's first new president in nearly half a century, crushed hopes that a new generation would shape the country's future by promising to defer to his ailing brother Fidel and the Communist Party's old guard on major matters.
A technocrat whose reforms are credited with saving Cuba's economy after the Soviet collapse. A former Fidel Castro aide who persuaded the U.N. to condemn Washington's embargo. The Communist Party's international relations man.
China asked the U.S. on Thursday to release data on the missile hit on an ailing spy satellite, while the Communist Party's newspaper blasted what it called Washington's callous attitude toward the weaponization of space.
Full text of the "Message from the Commander in Chief," a letter from Fidel Castro, posted Tuesday on the Web site of Cuba's Communist Party newspaper Granma. This is a version of the official Cuban translation, edited for clarity.
A 17-year-old boy picked by China as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, Tibetan Buddhism's second-highest figure, pledged his support for the Communist Party in a rare public appearance, state media said.
Shanghai's mayor won a second five-year term Wednesday, cementing his political survival after a wide-ranging corruption scandal brought down the city's Communist Party boss.
A Chinese dissident who wrote about corruption went on trial Tuesday for subversion, his lawyer said, a charge used frequently to silence whistle-blowers and critics of the ruling Communist Party.
The election-related violence that has killed hundreds in Kenya is proof that Western-style democracy is a bad fit for Africa, a Chinese commentator wrote in the newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party.
A Chinese official who put on an elaborate funeral for his mother that included erecting a massive stage and hiring a 20-piece band has been fired from his Communist Party post and demoted, a state-run newspaper report Tuesday.
Authorities in central China have expelled 500 people from the Communist Party for defying the country's one-child policy, state media said Monday.
China's ruling Communist Party has warned officials against bribery, spreading hearsay and several other taboos, ahead of the reassignment this month of several provincial-level politicians to new posts, a government news agency said.
China hopes its middle class will expand to more than half of its total population by 2020, a Communist Party planner said Wednesday.
Fidel Castro remains on the mend, gaining weight, exercising twice a day and continuing to help make the Cuban government's top decisions, his brother Raul Castro says.
In his characteristically low-key fashion, President Hu Jintao has put his stamp on China's direction, sidelined key rivals, taken over as head of the military and emerged as pre-eminent leader after months of infighting.
President Hu Jintao emerged politically stronger after the Communist Party announced a new leadership lineup Monday, giving him his second five-year term. But it also promoted two potential successors, a move that could spark a disruptive battle over who takes power in five years.
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.
Delegates to a pivotal Communist Party congress whittled down a list of candidates for senior committee assignments on Saturday, a prelude to selecting China's new leadership.
While China's Communist Party leaders gathered for a major conclave this week, April Wen was too busy to notice. The accountant was searching for a job and polishing her English by watching "Desperate Housewives" on pirated DVD.
China might not have a permanent presence in space yet, but the country's rocket men are already thinking about setting up a Communist Party branch in the outer reaches.
Communist Party delegates on Thursday reviewed candidates for committees that will determine China's leadership and influence policy-making for the next five years.
Tibetan monks staged a daring protest against Chinese rule, disrupting an official government tour for foreign journalists with screams that the Dalai Lama was not to blame for violence and demands for religious freedom.
"LOVE your country, love your religion, together let's build a harmonious society," reads the banner fluttering in the spring sunshine at the 400-year-old Tibetan monastery in remote Sichuan province.
BEIJING — One of the most prominent human rights advocates in China stood trial on Tuesday morning on subversion charges in a proceeding that lasted three hours and centered on whether his public criticism of the ruling Communist Party represented a threat to the state.
They were expelled from their first school together. They fought in Cuba's Sierra Maestra together. And, following their victory over the forces of Fulgencio Batista, they have ruled Cuba together for nearly 50 years.
Michael Kazin reviews: THE MIGHTY WURLITZER: How the CIA Played America By Hugh Wilford Harvard Univ. Press. 342 pp. $27.95 ---- What do Richard Wright, Gloria Steinem, Henry Kissinger, George Meany, Nina Simone and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. have in common?
A Chinese official was fired for organizing a very lavish funeral for his mother. The funeral had over 1,000 attendees.
Oh my God! Believe it or not, this is what-s happening here in China.
The reds have gone green. The Communist Party USA has revolutionized its Manhattan headquarters, turning their former digs into an eco-friendly workspace complete with linoleum tables made from linseed oil, carpets created from recycled materials and all-glass walls.l
JIANMIN VILLAGE, China — Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world's biggest dam, biggest power plant and biggest consumer of dirt, stone, concrete and steel.
Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world's biggest dam, biggest power plant and biggest consumer of dirt, stone, concrete and steel. Ever.
IN AN EFFORT to prepare Beijing and Shanghai for the upcoming 2008 Olympics and 2010 World Expo, China is modernizing both cities.
Colombian politics, notable for corruption, bossism and violence, took a positive turn Oct. 28 when candidates of the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA), Colombia's new, left-progressive coalition party, won local electoral victories.
Ninety years ago on Wednesday, Bolshevik revolutionaries seized power in Russia. The communist revolution ushered in a totalitarian dictatorship that killed and imprisoned tens of millions of people.
Central planks of the Chilean dictator's state have been left untouched by successive elected governments. Tracking recent student and labour protests, Manuel Riesco asks whether the 'Transition' will now finally follow Pinochet into the grave.
HU JINTAO, China's Communist Party leader, could hardly have asked for such perfect timing. Or maybe he did.
Half a century after the Soviet Union beat the United States to outer space, China blasted off its first lunar orbiter Wednesday, catapulting the Asian nation onto the front lines of a new space race aimed at giving it bragging rights as a rising world power.
...True, the Dalai Lama is no ordinary scholar and teacher; he is the living symbol of the Buddhist faith. It seems that Beijing's cadres fear his moral authority and do not want the international community to examine their record in Tibet, because they have a lot to hide.
Transport workers striking in defence of their pensions brought France's rail, bus and urban transport system to a virtual standstill on Thursday.
HONG KONG - While the 2,000-plus Communist Party deputies convene at the 17th National Congress in Beijing, more and more ordinary Chinese citizens are joining the huge army of speculators and investors to trade shares in hope of sharing the wealth generated by the booming stock …
In two major policy speeches September 18 and 19, French President Nicolas Sarkozy laid out a programme of the most far-reaching attacks on social and democratic rights and the working and living conditions of the working class made by any president of France since the Second Wor …
BEIJING (Reuters) - Days after banning "sexually provocative sounds" on television, China has now stopped networks showing "saucy" adverts for push-up bras and figure-hugging underwear ahead of a major Communist Party meeting next month.
.."the Times of India, the country's biggest-selling English newspaper, called for the government to "quietly urge [Burma] towards [democracy]. We are not like China. We champion democratic values. Do something."
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has banned "sexually provocative sounds" on television and pulled the plug on a show reconstructing infamous crimes by women ahead of a major Communist Party meeting next month.
Beijing is boiling. A year before China's capital hosts the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, its economy is swelling at an annual rate of 12%.
The Chinese Communist Party has selected 53 "national moral models" in its largest campaign since the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to improve the moral standards of its people.