Politics Jun 02 Leader Profile: Student Activist Wang Dan Leading up to the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, Wang Dan was one of the most high-profile student activists, spearheading efforts to try to bring democratic change to China's regime.
Politics Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng In the weeks leading up to the military crackdown in Tiananmen in 1989, Chinese Premier Li Peng came to represent the conservative wing of the Communist Party leadership, speaking for those who favored the harshest response to student demonstrators.
Politics Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Communist Party Official Zhao Ziyang On May 19, 1989, Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Zhao Ziyang picked up a bullhorn and urged student demonstrators to end their hunger strike against the Chinese government in the name of peace and national stability.
Politics Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Patriarch Deng Xiaoping While Deng Xiaoping held many positions within the Communist Party and was never head of government or state, but did serve as the de facto party leader and leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early…
Politics Jun 02 Kim Jong Il Reportedly Taps Youngest Son as Heir, South Korean Media Say Amid recent military moves, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has signaled that his youngest son will assume the ruling family dynasty and become the secretive nation's next leader, South Korean news reports said Tuesday.
Science Jun 01 China Appears to Tighten Internet Access Around Tiananmen Anniversary In the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen protests on June 4, concerns over Chinese censorship of the Internet are running strong, although problems with unpredictable Web access and other matters are proving just as tricky.
World Jun 01 Militants Abduct 400 in Northwest Pakistan Taliban militants abducted at least 400 students, staff and relatives from a military-run college in a northwest Pakistani tribal region on Monday.
Nation Jun 01 Missing Air France Plane Presumed to Have Crashed An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic Ocean and went missing Monday, according to officials.
Economy Jun 01 GM Files for Bankruptcy Protection; Judge OKs Chrysler Asset Sale General Motors, a longtime cornerstone of American industrial power, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday morning and embarked on a broad restructuring, paving the way for the struggling automaker to receive another $30 billion in taxpayer aid.
Politics May 29 Global Monitoring Systems Work to Confirm North Korean Nuclear Test Claims When North Korea conducted its second underground nuclear test in three years Monday, one of the first places in the world to register anything unusual was the National Earthquake Information Center in Denver, Colo.