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...SONG RENQIONG, 96, one of the "Eight Immortals" of the Chinese Communist Party, a group of powerful officials who set state policy in the 1980s; in Beijing. Song joined the party as a teenager and rose through the ranks to become a "remarkable proletarian revolutionary," as state news agency Xinhua called him. Following his appointment as a general in the People's Liberation Army in 1955, he served on the party's Central Committee and was admitted to the Beijing politburo in 1982. His death makes Bo Yibo, father of current Commerce Minister Bo Xilai, the last living "Immortal...
...nation's consciousness acquired a stain that may take years to fade. At midnight, a 21-year-old named Yan Yanming reportedly entered the dormitory of Ruzhou's No. 2 High School and slipped into the rooms where male students slept. Yan slashed some students' throats, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Others he stabbed in the heart. Eight died without rising. Four survived?hours later, witnesses saw the smears where their blood flowed down the school's front steps. Police caught Yan the next day after he overdosed on drugs at his parents' home. The attack left...
...Beijing appears to be trying hard not to let ethnic turmoil metastasize. The Chinese press did not report news of the clashes until Monday evening, when a brief item was first released only on the English-language news wire of the official Xinhua News Agency. No mention was made that the conflict was between the Hui and the Han. And in contrast with the internal document circulated to Henan officials, the Xinhua article gave a death toll of only seven. The news black-out may have had as much to do with Beijing's fear of social disorder snowballing into...
...stands behind them, as if giving introductions. But in the other two photos, which appeared in Shanghai's Wen Hui Bao newspaper on Aug. 13 and in a set of pictures celebrating Deng's centenary, Jiang has vanished. At least one of the doctored photos was released by the Xinhua news agency?which implies either official complicity or a massive goof. Either way, "it can only be embarrassing for Jiang," says an editor from a Party-run newspaper, because "someone very publicly wants him to disappear...
...will Beijing react? Probably slowly. Last week the state-owned news agency Xinhua reported only that "some Hong Kong residents" rallied, and that bus and minibus services were disrupted and which was said to have prompted "complaints from many members of the public." Contacted by TIME, Hong Kong's Transport Department said it hadn't received any; the operators of the three major bus companies said they received a single complaint?and one received "many commendations" from the public...