Strains show as China buckles under harsh winter Premier Wen Jiabao rushed Tuesday to oversee disaster relief as China buckled under its harshest winter for half a century, which has affected tens of millions of people and paralysed many areas. China unveils likely successors to top posts China's ruling Communist Party unveiled on Monday a new leadership line-up, including two men likely to eventually succeed President Hu Jintao and government head Premier Wen Jiabao.
Renowned Chinese author Su Hsueh-lin dies at 103 TAIPEI - Renowned Chinese essayist and literary expert Su Hsueh-lin, who was involved in the 1919 May Fourth student movement for a modern China, died of heart failure at a hospital in southern Taiwan on Wednesday, Kyodo News reported.