Nepal Maoists begin talks to revamp party

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 18:50

Prachanda-led UCPN-M has begun internal deliberations for re-building the party after its humiliating performance in the recently held Constituent Assembly elections.

Left determined to fight communal forces: CPI leader

Last Updated: Friday, December 27, 2013, 18:14

Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Joginder Dayal on Friday said that the Left parties were determined to fight "communal forces" in the country.

Trinamool Congress activists killed 142 political foes: CPI-M

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 19:17

Trinamool Congress activists have killed 142 political opponents and forced 12 to commit suicide in unending attacks on the Left Front in West Bengal, the CPI-M said.

China sets five-year plan to check corruption

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 19:02

Communist Party of China (CPC) has vowed to fight corruption and maintain its "high-handed posture" in the next five years.

Widow of China`s purged leader dies at age 95

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 14:57

The widow of a former Chinese Communist Party chief ousted after the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests has died at age 95.

China vice police minister sacked: Communist Party

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 25, 2013, 16:40

A senior official in China`s Ministry of Public Security has been sacked for "disciplinary violations", state media said Wednesday, the latest target in a corruption crackdown by the ruling Communist Party.

China legislators vote to end labour camps

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 22:03

China`s top legislative committee voted to abolish "re-education through labour" camps introduced more than half a century ago, saying they had served their purpose.

China punishes 20,000 officials in anti-graft drive

Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 20:10

Some 20,000 officials have been punished in China as part of ruling Communist Party`s clamp down on corruption and misconduct by mandarins to ensure that the "colour of red China will never change."

Beijing sends another high profile delegation to Nepal

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 16:24

A third high profile delegation from China has arrived here following the defeat of the United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) in the Himalayan nation`s Constituent Assembly elections last month.

Restive Xinjiang needs `ethnic healing`: Chinese media

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 09:13

China`s state-run media Tuesday called for "ethnic healing" in the restive Xinjiang region, a day after two policemen and 14 members of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority were killed in a clash.

Rights abuses persist in China despite plan to scrap camps: Amnesty

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 09:11

China`s much-vaunted abolition of its widely loathed "re-education through labour" camps risks being no more than a cosmetic change because of other rights abuses, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Nepal`s CPN-Maoist party demands roundtable conference

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 11:56

The Communist Party of Nepal, Maoist (CPN-Maoist), which boycotted the Nov 19 national elections, has reiterated its demand for holding a roundtable conference to end the political deadlock in the country, the party said Monday.