Story Archive
2009-05-22
They're well cared for, staff say, but ethnic Uyghur children are required to assume Chinese identities in a Xinjiang orphanage.
2009-05-21
Parents of missing children in China call for a more thorough investigation as the number of kidnappings grows.
2009-05-20
The sole aid group caring for Lao Hmong asylum-seekers in a Thai camp pulls out, citing pressure from a military that wants them repatriated.
2009-05-20
After an international outcry, Burma's ruling generals let diplomats and a handful of reporters into a high-profile trial.
2009-05-20
Vietnamese MPs are to debate a planned mine involving a Chinese firm, as controversy flares over a joint trade promotion Web site.
2009-05-19
Two men jailed for a high-profile act of vandalism in 1989 get U.S. asylum and treatment for trauma suffered in prison.
2009-05-18
The trial has begun for a pro-democracy leader in Burma accused of violating the terms of her house arrest, amid calls for her release by local activists and global leaders.
2009-05-18
More than a year after a major Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, two more Tibetan monks escape arrest and reach India.
2009-05-15
The Deputy editor of a Vietnamese tourism publication is fired from his job after the government accuses him of writing what they call ‘sensitive’ articles.
2009-05-15
Women belonging to an ethnic minority in northwestern China defend their land in a clash with officials who try to seize it for forced crop production.
2009-05-14
Burma's opposition leader, on trial for breaking the terms of her house arrest, has denied any wrongdoing, amid an international outcry over her prosecution.
2009-05-14
A former aide releases the memoirs of China's late premier, shattering an official silence on the June 1989 crackdown.
2009-05-13
Villagers in a land dispute in eastern China clash with police.
2009-05-13
China confirms its fourth case of A/H1N1 flu, including two people who showed symptoms of the virus in Hong Kong.
2009-05-12
Workers at a Chinese shoe factory say they are underage, and that officials switched their identification papers to make them seem older.
2009-05-12
Authorities tighten security as bereaved parents try to mark the anniversary of a devastating earthquake.
2009-05-12
A prominent Uyghur economist takes outspoken aim at the Chinese government's handling of his native Xinjiang region.
2009-05-11
U.S. officials call for medical access to a Burmese opposition leader who is ill and under house arrest.
2009-05-11
More than 140,000 Vietnamese boat people passed through Hong Kong over a quarter-century, and many are haunted by memories of life in the camps that housed them.
2009-05-09
Five Tibetan monks wanted in China for staging protests at a major monastery reach safety in India.
2009-05-08
A pregnant British woman facing capital charges in Laos for drug-smuggling could now be moved out of the country.
2009-05-08
In a new twist on land development tensions in China, authorities in Xinjiang are reclaiming orchards farmed by ethnic Uyghurs.
2009-05-07
Uyghur exiles assail Pakistan's decision to send a group of ethnic Uyghurs back to China, while a militant group says it has no ties with the men.
2009-05-07
In the second installment of an interview, a Burmese migrant describes abuses suffered by himself and other Burmese at the hands of a human trafficking gang.
2009-05-06
Stalinist North Korea slaps new curbs on farmers' markets, and on women traders trying to supplement family incomes.
2009-05-06
Citizens frustrated by official corruption have a new weapon on their side: the Web.
2009-05-05
Will Germany’s exiled Uyghur community take in some of the Uyghur men held at Guantanamo Bay for the last seven years?
2009-05-05
A Mexican jet has landed in Hong Kong to retrieve Mexican nationals held in quarantine for H1N1 virus.
2009-05-04
A Nigerian-born British woman, now facing a possible death sentence in Laos for alleged drug-smuggling, has been held for months.
2009-05-04
Thousands of children go missing in China every year, and parents say officials have so far done little to help recover them.
