Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher: Kindred Spirits

BEIJING — Deng Xiaoping had reform and opening up and Hu Jintao had harmonious society. Now Xi Jinping has the Chinese Dream. China's new president coined the slogan last November, within weeks of taking power, at an exhibition called The Road ...

Deng Xiaoping (ST FILE) Kor Kian Beng The Straits Times Publication Date : 14-05-2013 Buzz over naming of Deng's grandson as county official When Deng Zhuodi, 28, was named a deputy head of Pingguo county in Guangxi region recently, it caused a stir ...

But it was an issue on which she had to yield. At talks in Beijing, then paramount leader Deng Xiaoping rejected her requests for Britain to continue administering Hong Kong. That led to 1984's joint declaration to seal Hong Kong's future. "That ...

The grandson of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, a Duke University law school graduate who later worked for U.S. law firm White & Case LLP, was named deputy head of a county in southern China, the People's Daily website said. Deng Zhuodi, in his ...

China's ZTE, which helped bring the telephone to millions of homes during the Deng Xiaoping era, is counting on a new generation of tech-savvy smartphone users.

Hu, general secretary of the party when Deng Xiaoping was China's paramount leader, remains a sensitive figure because of his link to the democracy demonstrations, which authorities quashed with military force and suppress mention of even today. He ...

Ezra Vogel, author of "Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China," was honored on Saturday for his outstanding contribution in the studies of China together with two other renowned researchers. In a prerecorded audio clip, Vogel, 82, said that ...

• Anhui girl (安徽女子): Yuan Liya, a poor young woman from central Anhui Province, died on May 3 after falling from the fourth floor of the wholesale apparel mall in Beijing where she worked. While the police have called it a suicide, Yuan's ...

Quotes from around China this week "If Deng Xiaoping was the chief architect for China's reform and opening, then Hu Yaobang deserves to be called its chief engineer." - Zhou Ruijin, former editor-in-chief of the Liberation Daily and the People's ...