Story Archive
2008-08-06
A former top Communist Party official has slammed Beijing's hosting of the Olympic Games as being built on the back of corruption and human rights abuses. "In China, we produce miscarriages of justice and trumped-up charges like a high-intensity industrial zone," writes Bao Tong, who is under house arrest at his Beijing home.
2008-08-01
Taxis in Beijing and other Chinese cities get high-tech security and surveillance equipment, including live microphones capable of transmitting audio from within the vehicle to a central monitoring station.
2008-08-01
Key rights advocates and social activists across China will spend the Olympics confined to their homes under round the clock surveillance. Some have been warned off talking to the media, while others cannot be reached by phone.
2008-07-31
The Czech Republic gives temporary safe haven to a group of North Korean asylum-seekers.
2008-07-30
Updated on August 1 - China confirms that foreign journalists working out of Olympics press facilities won't have unfettered Internet access, although some sites appear to have been unblocked following international news coverage.
2008-07-29
Cambodia's ruling party claims an election victory, but the opposition says voting was rigged.
2008-07-29
Cambodia's ruling party claims an election victory, but the opposition says voting was rigged.
2008-07-28
Authorities in China sentence a teacher who criticized the construction in quake-hit schools to one year in a labor camp, his wife says.
2008-07-25
Chinese citizens hoping to lodge complaints about alleged mistreatment or injustice at the hands of local officials are being tricked into filling in a form at government offices in Beijing and then taken to detention centers to await escort back home.
2008-07-23
Chinese authorities in Gulja, which saw an armed crackdown on protests in 1997, are raiding homes in a security campaign they say is aimed at the country's huge migrant population but which activists abroad say targets minority Muslim Uyghurs.
2008-07-21
Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei send a prominent cyber-activist serving a suspended sentence back to jail. Meanwhile, in neighboring Hunan, veteran labor activist Zhang Shanguang vows to continue his human rights work following his release from a 10-year prison sentence.
2008-07-17
Three Burmese women who went to work legally in Malaysia are now being held in one of the country's notorious immigration jails after they lodged a complaint of mistreatment and sexual harassment against a co-worker.
2008-07-16
An unremarkable South Korean village is home to a little-known cemetery for North Korean war dead.
2008-07-15
Bereaved parents who lost children when their schools collapsed in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan have vowed to continue their legal battle after officials refused to publish results of an investigation. Many parents have now signed a compensation deal offered by the government.
2008-07-12
As Cambodia's election campaign heats up, a journalist linked to the opposition is killed along with his son.
2008-07-12
As Cambodia's election campaign heats up, a journalist linked to the opposition is killed along with his son.
2008-07-12
As the Olympic torch makes its way north to Beijing, authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong boost security around the home of a jailed family planning activist.
2008-07-11
Authorities in Xinjiang execute two Uyghurs for alleged terror links. Fifteen others are sentenced.
2008-07-11
Chinese authorities cancel a Tibetan festival that erupted in protests a year ago.
2008-07-10
Chinese police stage a dramatic raid on a flat occupied by ethnic Uyghurs in the restive Xinjiang region.
2008-07-09
Cambodia's long-lost "jungle girl" makes progress in small steps after 18 years in the forest.
2008-07-09
Cambodia's long-lost "jungle girl" makes progress in small steps after 18 years in the forest.
2008-07-08
Vietnam's outlawed Unified Buddhist Church plans a funeral for its outspoken patriarch.
2008-07-08
A provincial Communist Party boss and former top Party aide take aim at officials after rioting in southwestern China.
2008-07-07
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou say a teenage girl whose death sparked mass riots in Weng'an county died from drowning, as police detain civilians trying to launch their own investigation.
2008-07-06
A monk describes the grisly task faced by his team of volunteers in dealing with the bodies of those who died in Cyclone Nargis.
2008-07-01
Zha Jianguo was jailed nine years ago for "incitement to subvert state power." He has rejected attempts by police to keep tabs on him after his release and vows to continue to appeal his sentence.
2008-06-29
Police detain hundreds of people suspected of rioting over alleged mishandling of a teenage girl's death.
2008-06-28
Chinese police detain a teacher who openly criticized the construction of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake.
2008-06-26
Hundreds of relatives and supporters march to government offices in the Chinese city of Qianjiang to call for a probe into the beating to death of a 13-year-old student.
