Story Archive
2009-09-17
Chinese democracy activists receive visits, warnings from the police.
2009-09-16
A noted Vietnamese blogger and government critic describes her detention.
2009-09-16
China's latest lead-poisoning scandal has parents staging angry protests.
2009-09-16
A scholarly institute rejects new government orders covering what members can and cannot do.
2009-09-16
China scores a tactical victory in its war on Web sites the government doesn't like.
2009-09-15
Throughout East Asia, vulnerable children are forced and trafficked into every kind of work.
2009-09-14
Chinese authorities detain parents observing the anniversary of a far-reaching milk scandal that sickened their children.
2009-09-14
Burmese refugees say more and more youngsters are being press-ganged into working as military porters.
2009-09-11
Poetry by teenage North Korean defectors, translated into English for the first time.
2009-09-11
Nearly two years after Burma's Saffron Revolution, an exiled leader of the monks' movement says their ranks are growing.
2009-09-11
A dissident leader among Burmese monks tries to uphold his monastic vows in prison.
2009-09-10
Internet cafes vow to 'self regulate' in advance of a politically sensitive anniversary.
2009-09-09
Two leading bloggers in China report elements of the ethnic strife in Urumqi that haven’t appeared in state-run media.
2009-09-09
Two journalists are charged with libel in Cambodia.
2009-09-09
Two journalists are charged with libel in Cambodia.
2009-09-09
The State Department says it is seeking consular access to a U.S. citizen, missing since landing last week in Burma.
2009-09-09
A new flare-up over a Chinese college that isn't what it claimed to be.
2009-09-08
A Vietnamese pro-democracy activist vows to keep fighting for reform after his release from prison.
2009-09-08
As the Lao president travels to China to seal closer economic ties, neighboring countries worry about Beijing's expanding influence.
2009-09-07
Chinese authorities order a major security presence in Xinjiang after deadly protests and a series of needle attacks.
2009-09-06
Chinese authorities pledge a hard line in Xinjiang after more deadly strife, but the top Party official there is keeping his job.
2009-09-05
Official media aren't trusted in northwest China, so where do people turn for news?
2009-09-05
Chinese leaders dismiss Xinjiang officials in a bid to address public anger in Urumqi.
2009-09-04
Experts fear worse yet to come in China's northwest.
2009-09-04
A U.S.-based leader of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square protests could soon appear in court.
2009-09-03
A U.S. citizen, the relative of several jailed democracy activists, is unaccounted for after landing in the former Burmese capital, Rangoon.
2009-09-03
Han Chinese protest in China's northwest after a series of stabbings with syringes.
2009-09-03
China's homeless population and officials say government aid falls far short of what is needed.
2009-09-02
Warmer China-Taiwan ties soften the impact of the Dalai Lama’s Taiwan visit.
2009-09-02
Tensions in China over subway construction take a violent turn.