Chen Yun

30 May 2012

Former Beijing party secretary Chen Xitong, widely believed to be a political enemy of liberal leaders Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang and to have actively plotted the latter's downfall, has heaped...

4:10PM

Internet cafes suffer as Beijing cuts connection

13 Jul 2009

Computer screens at hundreds of internet cafes around Urumqi flickered with life but the seats in front of them were empty. With the city's connection cut in the wake of the riots, business at...

6:13AM

Housing project turns sour as cash runs out

7 Apr 2001

What began as a hopeful partnership between a destitute Guizhou county and a Chongqing development company - both intent on realising the dream promised by the Government's 'go west' policy -...

5:24PM

Land that time forgot

21 Apr 1996

The good news is you can live to be over 120 in China. The bad news is that you have to be a peasant living in poverty on top of a mountain in possibly the poorest county in China. And you have to...

12:43PM

Party 'immortals' flex their muscles

11 Apr 1996

Two of the surviving Communist Party 'immortals' have again flexed their muscles over national affairs.

7:37AM

Minister vows to boost market structure

12 Oct 1995

STATE Planning Minister Chen Jinhua has pledged to strengthen the role of market mechanisms during the period of the Ninth Five-Year Plan (1996-2000).

12:31PM

Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

4:13PM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Late elder 'firm backer of Jiang'

PARTY elder Chen Yun, who died last month, had 'absolute confidence and trust' in Communist Party boss Jiang Zemin, according to a eulogy by a conservative party leader.

8:58PM

Leaders bid Chen a quiet farewell

CHINA bade a restrained farewell to senior leader Chen Yun whose body was cremated at Babaoshan Cemetery for revolutionary martyrs yesterday.

7:30AM

Low-key farewell planned for Chen

CHINA plans a low-key ceremony to mark the cremation of senior leader Chen Yun who died on Monday in Beijing at the age of 90.

4:06AM

Political immaturity

CHEN Yun will be remembered as a Long March veteran, as a cautious leader who opposed the madness of the Great Leap Forward and the cynicism of the Cultural Revolution and as a founding father of...

3:18AM

State-run firms win concessions

BEIJING has succumbed to tough lobbying by the state sector and scaled down plans to overhaul chronically unprofitable government enterprises.

10:05AM

Deng cancer reports denied

BEIJING has officially denied that patriarch Deng Xiaoping is suffering from testicular cancer.

9:40AM