Story Archive
2008-09-16
Burma arrests a longtime activist, who now faces new risks in prison.
2008-09-15
Rumors are swirling over the reported ill health of the North Korean leader, but who would succeed him if they prove true is a mystery.
2008-09-13
Authorities in the Chinese capital have seen a surge in applications to stage demonstrations in Beijing's "protest parks," after a top official sparked hopes that applications might lead to the redress of long-running grievances.
2008-09-12
A Burmese court hands down sentences to 10 men in connection with last year's uprising, amid stepped-up security.
2008-09-12
Employees and management face off at a Coca-Cola joint-venture bottling plant in southern China, as the country's official trade union begins to flex its muscles for the first time in decades.
2008-09-10
Ever hear the one about the communist kittens? The fish who escaped being eaten? Adam and Eve in the Workers' Paradise? These North Korean political jokes hint broadly at the grit and tenacity of citizens living under the world's last surviving Stalinist government.
2008-09-08
An official radio station in Xinjiang sacks an outspoken employee, who is now detained.
2008-09-06
After the worst violence there in a decade, officials in China's northwesternmost region tighten curbs on the observance of Ramadan.
2008-09-06
Vietnamese Catholics get high-level support for protests calling on the government to return expropriated Church land.
2008-09-04
Phone service for relatives and associates of a jailed blind activist is curtailed before the Paralympics open.
2008-09-03
China has already spent billions of dollars on material aid for Sichuan earthquake victims. Now a U.S.-based foundation wants to help survivors through art.
2008-09-03
Nearly six months after a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, authorities are releasing some Buddhist monks from detention in Golmud.
2008-09-03
Former top Communist Party aide Bao Tong says the processes governing fair play and equal treatment according to the rules of the game will have a big impact on Chinese society.
2008-09-02
Sichuan parents are barred from protesting during a visit by China's prime minister.
2008-08-28
Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai.
2008-08-28
Unarmed Uyghur police come under attack while searching for suspects in an August clash.
2008-08-26
Unusual incident reveals that successful recruiters are rewarded with money and rice.
2008-08-26
Americans expelled from China for Olympic protests speak about their fears and loss of control during interrogation
2008-08-25
Tibetan schoolchildren, now refugees in India, use art to express their thoughts about their homeland, their families, and China’s Olympics.
2008-08-20
Massive rainfall and overflowing rivers have killed more than one hundred people in Laos and Vietnam. Bad weather is expected to persist in the lower Mekong Basin until the end of September.
2008-08-18
Beijing's "protest parks" are empty and unused, and activists say demonstrations are overtly discouraged. Police say it's because there is a good 'social environment'; a lone protester in Ritan park has another story to tell.
2008-08-14
A Communist Party document sets out new curbs on Muslim Uyghurs after a spate of attacks.
2008-08-14
A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.
2008-08-14
A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.
2008-08-13
Chinese authorities have placed a curfew on Tibetan Buddhist monasteries during the Olympics, confining monks and forbidding travel to Beijing.
2008-08-13
An activist known as a voice for angry young Tibetans is released but his movements are restricted.
2008-08-12
Further attacks on security personnel are reported near Kashgar as police in the northwestern region of Xinjiang detain 15 suspects following explosions in the far west of the region last week.
2008-08-11
A new film, Fire Under the Snow, sheds light on tensions in Tibet by looking at the life of an elderly Buddhist monk, Palden Gyatso, who survived years of torture and abuse in Chinese prisons.
2008-08-08
Still reeling from a deadly cyclone, Burmese mark 20 years since the start of a 1988 pro-democracy uprising.
2008-08-06
After reported attack, China says safety ranks as the top priority at Olympic Games.
