Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi dies at 76
Chinese dissident Fang Lizhi dies at 76 Updated: 15:33, Sunday April 8, 2012 Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, who fled China after the 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement, has died in the US at the age of 76.
Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside by Deng Xiaoping as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died on Wednesday, state-run media reported.