Benjamin Kang Lim
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Exclusive: China to name Harvard-trained Liu He as vice premier overseeing economy - sourcesJanuary 26, 2018
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is set to name Liu He, a Harvard-trained economist who advises President Xi Jinping, as a vice premier overseeing the economy and financial sector, five sources familiar...
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China to pledge more U.S. soy imports during Trump visitNovember 7, 2017
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will commit to buy more U.S. soybeans during President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing this week, a U.S. industry official said, underlining the importance of trade in farm...
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Factbox: Xi allies dominate China's new 25-member PolitburoOctober 25, 2017
(Reuters) - While the new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee unveiled on Wednesday by China's ruling Communist Party was not packed with people regarded as close to President Xi Jinping, his...
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Factbox: China's new Politiburo Standing Committee lineupOctober 25, 2017
Here is the list of the new committee, all men, by order of seniority:- Xi Jinping, 64, is widely seen as China's most powerful leader since Chairman Mao Zedong. He was once viewed as a drab "...
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China vows to scrap secret interrogations of Communist Party membersOctober 18, 2017
Cadres accused of graft and other disciplinary violations are routinely subjected to extrajudicial detention, isolation and interrogation by the party's much-feared Central Commission for Discipline...
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China's President Xi says will continue years-long war on smogOctober 18, 2017
Improving the notoriously toxic air across the northern regions of the world's second-largest economy has been a cornerstone of Beijing's economic and social policy in recent years.China has ordered...
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China banking regulator, Hubei chief front runners to head central bank: sourcesOctober 13, 2017
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top banking regulator Guo Shuqing and veteran banker Jiang Chaoliang are front runners to succeed Zhou Xiaochuan, the country's longest-serving central bank head who is...
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Sweeping change in China's military points to more firepower for XiSeptember 8, 2017
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military is preparing a sweeping leadership reshuffle, dropping top generals, including two that sources say are under investigation for corruption.The changes would make...
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All the president's men: China's politburo line-up a measure of Xi's powerSeptember 5, 2017
BEIJING (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping of China is expected to place trusted allies in the Communist Party's key decision-making Politburo during a leadership reshuffle at the 19th party Congress...
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Surviving Tiananmen 'Gentlemen' mum on Chinese Nobel laureate's deathJuly 21, 2017
BEIJING (Reuters) - Liu Xiaobo was one of the "Four Gentlemen" of Tiananmen Square, the group that staged a hunger strike in the final days of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in China and tried to...
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'No enemies': the life-long advocacy of China's Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissidentJuly 14, 2017
BEIJING (Reuters) - During a hunger strike days before the Chinese army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement on June 4, 1989, the man who would become China's best known dissident, Liu...
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'No enemies': the life-long advocacy of China's Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissidentJuly 14, 2017
BEIJING (Reuters) - During a hunger strike days before the Chinese army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement on June 4, 1989, the man who would become China's best known dissident, Liu...