Jiang Zemin

President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among the world leaders who expressed condolences to President Xi Jinping on the death of Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, official media reported.

Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao was seen in public for the first time since he was dramatically escorted out of a top Communist Party meeting, when he paid respects to his late predecessor Jiang Zemin on Monday.

Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin died Wednesday at the age of 96, state media reported, hailing him as a great communist revolutionary who helped quell the 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Chinese President Xi Jinping today called for a zero-tolerance attitude towards "electoral misconduct" as he cast his ballot at a polling station in Beijing to elect new deputies to the local people's congress. Former presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao voted by proxy.

A Spanish judge today shelved a criminal investigation into the killing of a Spanish camera man by a US tank shell in Iraq in 2003 after Spain placed limits on judicial powers in international cases.

Chinese reports about a giant inflatable toad have been deleted from the Internet after social media users compared the puffed-up animal to a former Communist Party chief.

The ouster of one of China's top military figures reflects Communist Party leader Xi Jinping's determination to impose his personal authority far more ambitiously than his recent predecessors.

Faculty members at a top Chinese university have collaborated for years on technical research papers with a People's Liberation Army (PLA) unit accused of being at the heart of China's alleged cyber-war against Western commercial targets.

A reformist member of China's decision-making Politburo, Li Yuanchao, is set to become the country's vice president this week instead of a more senior and conservative official best known for keeping the media in check, sources said.

China on Thursday dismissed as rumour reports that retired President Jiang Zemin, who led the country through massive changes after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died.The official Xinhua News Agency quoted what it called authoritative sources as saying the reports were "pure rumour." The one-sentence dispatch in ...

China on Thursday dismissed reports that retired President Jiang Zemin, who led the country through massive changes after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died.The official Xinhua News Agency quoted what it called authoritative sources as saying the reports were "pure rumor." The one-sentence dispatch in English was...

President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among the world leaders who expressed condolences to President Xi Jinping on the death of Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, official media reported.

Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao was seen in public for the first time since he was dramatically escorted out of a top Communist Party meeting, when he paid respects to his late predecessor Jiang Zemin on Monday.

Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin died Wednesday at the age of 96, state media reported, hailing him as a great communist revolutionary who helped quell the 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Chinese President Xi Jinping today called for a zero-tolerance attitude towards "electoral misconduct" as he cast his ballot at a polling station in Beijing to elect new deputies to the local people's congress. Former presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao voted by proxy.

A Spanish judge today shelved a criminal investigation into the killing of a Spanish camera man by a US tank shell in Iraq in 2003 after Spain placed limits on judicial powers in international cases.

Chinese reports about a giant inflatable toad have been deleted from the Internet after social media users compared the puffed-up animal to a former Communist Party chief.

The ouster of one of China's top military figures reflects Communist Party leader Xi Jinping's determination to impose his personal authority far more ambitiously than his recent predecessors.

Faculty members at a top Chinese university have collaborated for years on technical research papers with a People's Liberation Army (PLA) unit accused of being at the heart of China's alleged cyber-war against Western commercial targets.

A reformist member of China's decision-making Politburo, Li Yuanchao, is set to become the country's vice president this week instead of a more senior and conservative official best known for keeping the media in check, sources said.

China on Thursday dismissed as rumour reports that retired President Jiang Zemin, who led the country through massive changes after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died.The official Xinhua News Agency quoted what it called authoritative sources as saying the reports were "pure rumour." The one-sentence dispatch in ...

China on Thursday dismissed reports that retired President Jiang Zemin, who led the country through massive changes after the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement, has died.The official Xinhua News Agency quoted what it called authoritative sources as saying the reports were "pure rumor." The one-sentence dispatch in English was...