China lauds Thatcher but H.K. activists cry betrayal

PERSONAL HABITS: She made her own bed and shopped for a present for detained former Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang IT is difficult to separate some of my personal memories of Margaret Thatcher -- mundane but revealing -- from the sweeping judgments of ...

MANILA, Philippines - Daniel Caluag finally won a big one as a Philippine athlete as he bagged the gold medal in the eighth Asian BMX Cycling Championships in Singapore last Sunday. Caluag, a 26-year-old Fil-Am whose parents are from Bataan and ...

A former British colony, Hong Kong became a self-administered region of China in 1997, and despite pressures from Beijing, remains free of state censorship. In 2012, Hong Kong hosted 34.9 million visits by Chinese nationals, many on shopping sprees.

As China announces the investigation of a top planning official for corruption, more high-profile cases are likely to follow as the administration of President Xi Jinping seeks to consolidate power during its first year in office, analysts said on ...

Another political hot potato has landed in the lap of new leader Xi Jinping with the publication of a book in Hong Kong that challenges the Communist Party's version of its past. In 1971, Mao Zedong's vice chairman Lin Biao perished in a ...

Since becoming General Secretary at the 18th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) last November, Xi Jinping has talked about the China Dream (zhongguo meng) at least five times. On all these occasions, Xi has equated the China Dream ...

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While China's tightly controlled media has publicly lauded late reformist premier Hu Yaobang on the anniversary of his death this week, any change in the ruling Chinese Communist Party's stance on the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement ...

Chinese Web users skirted the country's tough Internet censors to pay homage to former communist party leader and popular reformerHu Yaobang, whose death 24 years ago sparked the . Hu's support for free market reforms and more governmenttransparency ...