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• Foreign investors to China's Xi: Cut the red tape

  economy, drawing a commitment to create a more level playing field.In a rare audience with the head of the Communist Party , executives from Pepsico , Samsung Group, Volvo Group and more than a dozen other companies -- from agri-businesses to finance -- traded   Read more »

• Chile seeking answers in death of poet Neruda

  invariably have to seek other labs."Ravanal also said that Chile lacks expertise in analyzing bone remains.Chilean Communist Party lawyer Eduardo Contreras, who is overseeing the exhumation, said he was disappointed that outside experts were not allowed."There's   Read more »

• Catholics look to next pope to improve China ties

  love," read the letter, released last week by the Holy See.China and the Vatican have no diplomatic ties, and the ruling Communist Party forced Chinese Catholics to sever ties with the Holy See in the 1950s. The two decades that followed saw churches closed   Read more »

• China wrestles with cost of cleaner environment

  No change is expected at the National People's Congress, which will be dominated by the installation of a new Cabinet under Communist Party leaders who took power in November. But the meeting offers a platform to try to appease the public by discussing possible   Read more »

• Cuba's Diaz-Canel rose gradually to No. 2 post

  but meteoric.Miguel Diaz-Canel has spent 30 years gradually paying his dues behind the scenes, earning a reputation as a Communist Party loyalist and rising through the ranks to a succession of ever-higher posts."He is not an upstart or improvised," President   Read more »

Around the web

• Free China: The Courage to Believe: Film Review

  faithful but will have serious trouble reaching the wider public whose opinion it hopes to sway. Jennifer Zeng, a former Communist Party member, and Dr. Charles Lee, a Chinese-American businessman, both saw their fathers persecuted by the Party. Years later, 5/23/13 from Hollywood Reporter Read more »

• Filat’s Gamble

  may have been perfect in Moldova since 2009, but at least the narrative seemed right. Eastern Europe’s only ruling Communist Party fell from government. The changeover was mythologised as the ‘Twitter Revolution’ – a precursor of the ‘Arab Spring’ and ‘Moscow 5/23/13 from openDemocracy Read more »

• Report Hits Out At China's Black Jails, Self-Immolations

  ruling Communist Party kept up a "stranglehold" on dissidents and rights activists last year, subjecting thousands to arbitrary detention in labor camps and unofficial "black jails," while the rate of self-immolations among Tibetans continued to rise amid 5/23/13 from Radio Free Asia Read more »

• North Korea Willing to Take China's Advice to Start Talks

  Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that envoy Choe Ryong Hae made that remark to a high-ranking member of China's Communist Party, Liu Yunshan, during talks in Beijing Thursday. Liu told Choe that China hopes all sides work to denuclearize the Korean 5/23/13 from Voice of America Read more »

• Swazi activists accuse SA of collusion

  South Africa's diplomatic mission, of handing the names of activists over to the absolute monarchy's security services. The Communist Party of Swaziland said members attending a meeting with the South African high commissioner in Mbabane, found police waiting 5/23/13 from News24 Read more »