Stay Connected. Stay Informed.
A giant screen broadcasts news footages of a funeral service for the late former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, in Beijing, China November 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: REUTERS China’s Communist Party leaders publicly honoured former premier Li Keqiang on Thursday as he was laid to rest, but censors scrubbed praise of the reform-minded bureaucrat once…
Read More “China censors Li praise as it bids farewell to former premier” »
A man reads a newspaper with an obituary of late former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on a bulletin board in Beijing, China October 28, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters China will cremate the remains of former Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday, when flags will fly at half mast across the country in mourning for an…
Read More “China to cremate ‘outstanding’ leader Li Keqiang on Thursday” »
Li Keqiang died at the age of 68 on Friday. Li Keqiang, the pro-reform Chinese former Premier, died after suffering a heart attack. He was 68. During his time as premier, Mr Li cultivated an image as a more modern Communist Party leader compared to his stiffer colleagues. Here are 5 points on Li Keqiang:…
Then China’s Premier Li Keqiang speaks during the ASEAN-China Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. File photo | Photo Credit: AP China’s former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack on Friday, October 27, 2023 aged 68, just 10 months after retiring from a decade of office during which his star…