Story Archive
2009-04-08
A cyber-espionage researcher calls on China to open a probe into attacks he says are being launched from within the country.
2009-04-08
Frustration in the U.S. Senate over ineffective sanctions prompts a new look at Burma policy.
2009-04-08
Producers of laphet, a ceremonial dish of pickled green tea leaves, say they are scrambling to recall their products after reports of contamination by textile dyes.
2009-04-07
Will major glaciers on the Tibetan plateau be gone by mid-century?
2009-04-07
A group of pensioners who suffered after being branded 'rightists' five decades ago asks to be rehabilitated.
2009-04-06
Kim Jong Il may not have placed a satellite into orbit, but his missile launch has played well domestically, given him the initiative, and exposed divisions at the U.N. Security Council.
2009-04-05
By launching its rocket despite international warnings, North Korea makes sure all eyes are on the Stalinist state.
2009-04-04
Hand, foot, and mouth disease is highly contagious and could still spread, officials say.
2009-04-03
According to a new directive from provincial police, security cameras are now compulsory in public areas, with fines for noncompliance.
2009-04-02
A Lao official rejects concerns over minority Hmong asylum-seekers who are sent back to Laos.
2009-04-02
Members of a mostly Muslim ethnic group in China are detained and fined for worshiping outside their own villages.
2009-04-02
A dissident Buddhist leader in Vietnam joins opposition to a planned bauxite mine.
2009-04-02
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have plans to redevelop traditional Uyghur homes in an historic Silk Road city.
2009-04-01
Cambodia’s international tribunal for top Khmer Rouge officials hears arguments over whether to move the one defendant who has voiced remorse to a site away from the others.
2009-04-01
Cambodia’s international tribunal for top Khmer Rouge officials hears arguments over whether to move the one defendant who has voiced remorse to a site away from the others.
2009-04-01
Hanoi faces growing calls for a crackdown on the worst polluters and a mandatory switch to cleaner fuels.
2009-04-01
Is China's crackdown on 'indecency' aimed at online pornography—or dissent?
2009-03-31
The former commandant of an infamous Khmer Rouge torture camp addresses the court and the country.
2009-03-31
The former commandant of an infamous Khmer Rouge torture camp addresses the court and the country.
2009-03-31
In the run-up to Burma's first elections in 20 years, the junta is urging loyal businessmen to stand as candidates.
2009-03-31
U.S. health officials have found lead and arsenic in traditional Burmese medications used by refugee families. Are children back in Burma also affected?
2009-03-30
More resistance is reported in Tibet, along with the beating death of a monk.
2009-03-30
Villagers in China's southern province of Hainan are staging a round-the-clock vigil to protect the bones of their Muslim ancestors in tombs dating back to the Tang dynasty, they say.
2009-03-29
Five ex-leaders of the Khmer Rouge go on trial, and Cambodia's youth get a chance to learn the truth about an era kept secret for the last 30 years.
2009-03-29
Five ex-leaders of the Khmer Rouge go on trial, and Cambodia's youth get a chance to learn the truth about an era kept secret for the last 30 years.
2009-03-27
Defendants sentenced in connection with church land protests vow more appeals.
2009-03-27
A Shanghai-based director plans a Broadway-style multimedia musical based on Karl Marx's political tome, 'Das Kapital.'
2009-03-27
Campaigners demand Chinese authorities release information on Gao Zhisheng's whereabouts and treatment.
2009-03-26
Thailand says a group of ethnic Hmong returned to Laos voluntarily, but a witness says not all were volunteers.
2009-03-26
An outspoken economist from a Chinese minority group faces "unbelievable threats and pressure" to keep quiet.
