Massimov meets China's Communist Party memberHead of Kazakhstan President’s Administration Karim Massimov has met with Secretary of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Zhao Leji.
04 July 2013
Xi's 'Chinese dream' aims to boost party: analysts New leader Xi Jinping has urged China to pursue the "Chinese dream" but experts say behind the grandiose words, he is single-minded in his aim to bolster Communist Party rule.
18 March 2013
Xi Jinping named president of China: parliament Xi Jinping was named president of China Thursday after a vote at the nation's parliamentary meeting in Beijing, four months after he took charge of the ruling Communist Party.
14 March 2013
China paper: regulation must 'keep pace with the times' A Chinese newspaper at the centre of a dispute over censorship said Thursday that Communist regulation of the media must "keep pace with the times", in its first edition since the row began.
10 January 2013
China unveils new leaders with Xi Jinping at helm China unveiled its new leaders, with Vice President Xi Jinping marching on stage at the head of a revamped line-up that will steer the world's number two economy for the next decade.
15 November 2012
'Iron Lady' of Cuban dissident goes on hunger strike Marta Beatriz Roque, the 67 year-old "Iron Lady" of Cuban dissidents, began a hunger strike Monday to protest conditions that opponents to the Communist regime face on the island.
12 September 2012
Czechs pass $3.6-billion religious property restitutionCzech lawmakers passed a bill Saturday on the restitution of assets worth up to 2.95 billion euros ($3.6 billion) seized from 17 religious denominations by Czechoslovakia's communist regime in 1948-89.