Chile Communists back Bachelet in president vote
22 days ago
Since Chile's return to democracy in 1990, the Communist Party has remained in the opposition and has banded with other leftist groups rather than join Bachelet's coalition.
China party punishes 21 officials in sex scandal
43 days ago
China's ruling Communist Party has punished 21 officials over a scandal in which developers were allegedly extorted by a developer after being secretly filmed in liaisons with hired women.
China names new premier as transition nears end
96 days ago
Xi already was China's pre-eminent leader after being appointed head of the Communist Party and chairman of the military last November in a once-a-decade handover to a new group of leaders.
Catholics look to next pope to improve China ties
98 days ago
China and the Vatican have no diplomatic ties, and the ruling Communist Party forced Chinese Catholics to sever ties with the Holy See in the 1950s.
Another China politics conclave: Why it matters?
106 days ago
China is in the midst of another large gathering of its political elite less than four months after holding a conclave to install a new Communist Party leadership.
China's Xi rides high hopes ahead of presidency
108 days ago
China's fawning state media, jaded social media commentators and even poor corn and cabbage farmers agree: new Communist Party chief Xi Jinping is off to a good start.
China's new leader urges party criticism
132 days ago
China's new leader says the ruling Communist Party should tolerate sharp outside criticism, in comments that have received skepticism from a public accustomed to pervasive censorship.
China elder Jiang Zemin takes a public step back
147 days ago
Influential Chinese ex-President Jiang Zemin has been moved down the top leadership's pecking order - at least in public - as the ruling Communist Party prepares for the final stages of a...
Ousted Chinese politician's lawyers close to party
149 days ago
Ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai, who is accused of corruption, will be represented by two Beijing-based attorneys from a large Chinese law firm that enjoys national prestige - and close ties to...
Academic removed in China's latest sex scandal
152 days ago
A Marxist theoretician has been removed as head of an important Communist Party research institute over a sex scandal, as China's leadership moves to end the latest revelation of high-level sleaze.