Story Archive
2008-12-09
South Korea warns of damaged ties with North Korea if activists persist in launching propaganda leaflets across the border.
2008-12-08
A petitioner in eastern China says she will pursue more inquiries into the killing of her father in 2007 after he tried to probe suspected corruption.
2008-12-05
A North Korean move to shut down the jointly operated Kaesong Industrial Complex could gravely harm the country’s fragile economy.
2008-12-03
China’s Health Ministry says many more children were sickened by melamine-tainted milk products than previously reported.
2008-12-03
A disabled man from China's northwest is detained as a national security threat.
2008-12-02
Police remove a petitioning AIDS activist from Beijing just after World AIDS Day.
2008-12-02
Internet cafes in China are forced to switch to a Chinese-made operating system, with steep licensing fees.
2008-12-01
Read extracts in English from Shin Dong Hyuk's unprecedented memoir of growing up in one of North Korea's most brutal prison camps.
2008-12-01
China's leaders shake hands with AIDS patients on World AIDS Day, but activists say harassment and discrimination remain commonplace.
2008-11-30
A North Korean who escaped from one of the Stalinist regime's total-control prison camps wants the world to read his memoir.
2008-11-26
A brutal assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.
2008-11-26
A brutal assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.
2008-11-26
Concerns are raised over the execution of a jobless man who killed six police officers in Shanghai after a failed bid to complain about being beaten in custody.
2008-11-26
Authorities in Xingping, in China's northern Shaanxi province, have launched a major campaign to evict villagers from their homes to make way for the expansion of a chemical plant.
2008-11-25
Up to 20 people are in hospital after violence erupted in a dispute between villagers and mine employees in Chongqing.
2008-11-25
Cab drivers in the central province of Hubei are the latest in a string of disputes that have brought China's ubiquitous taxi services to a standstill.
2008-11-21
Local officials and residents say a curfew has been imposed on Longnan city following two days of violence between police and protesters.
2008-11-20
Burma’s powerful military returns a child soldier to his family.
2008-11-20
Hubei-based petitioner Guo Dajing has called for international pressure after he was detained at an unofficial detention center and severely beaten.
2008-11-20
Court officials and Tibetans say many Tibetans are now being handed jail terms as part of an ongoing crackdown.
2008-11-19
More than 100 people are arrested in Gansu after a massive riot over land.
2008-11-19
After the arrest of Nanjing-based political activist and blogger Guo Quan, authorities ask questions about his opposition party.
2008-11-19
As Tibetans in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala look for a new policy direction, Beijing warns against any move for Tibetan independence.
2008-11-19
A foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing describes allegations of Chinese spying as "sheer fabrication."
2008-11-18
A film about Tibet is honored in London.
2008-11-18
A Uyghur woman in China avoids a forced abortion, in a case that has drawn international attention.
2008-11-18
Some say controls over China's Internet look set to get even tighter, as authorities arrest a prominent Nanjing blogger.
2008-11-14
Residents of Du'an Yao autonomous county in southwestern China face down local officials and riot police over a proposed property development.
2008-11-14
Police move in to quell rising protests in China's former industrial boomtown as hundreds of workers at a closed factory gather to demand three months' back pay.
2008-11-13
Bereaved parents say authorities in Sichuan are preventing them from holding memorials for children who died in the massive May 12 earthquake.
