Story Archive
2009-03-25
North Korea has stopped receiving U.S. food aid, but a U.S. official says it could re-start immediately.
2009-03-25
Tibetan farmers in China's Sichuan province refuse to till their land in protest at Chinese crackdowns.
2009-03-24
A leading Burmese labor activist isn't getting the care she needs in prison for a heart ailment.
2009-03-24
A subtly subversive online spoof in China prompts an apparent backlash, and netizens are angry.
2009-03-23
Security forces patrol the streets of a mountain town in Qinghai after a man jumps into the Yellow River.
2009-03-20
Tense relations between North and South Korea have forced separated families to travel to a third country to see long-lost relatives.
2009-03-19
A former member of China's highly secretive intelligence community calls on other countries to take Beijing to task for its abysmal human rights record.
2009-03-19
Top brass in the U.S. military say they can probably shoot down any North Korean missile. But will they?
2009-03-19
Authorities again stop online writer Zan Aizong from flying to Hong Kong.
2009-03-18
Almost 20 years after the deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests, a former PLA soldier calls for a full inquiry.
2009-03-18
A leader of the 2007 Saffron Revolution is still fighting back from a remote prison in northern Burma.
2009-03-18
An outspoken cyber-dissident's health is suffering badly in jail, his wife says.
2009-03-18
A Burmese dissident's wife calls on prison authorities to treat her husband's eyesight before he goes blind.
2009-03-17
A planned bauxite mine in Vietnam will provide jobs, but some experts fear its environmental impact.
2009-03-17
Jailers in the central Burmese city of Meiktila face new allegations of abusing political detainees.
2009-03-16
A Chinese journalist says time is running out for U.N. refugee officials to hear his asylum case.
2009-03-16
A U.N. investigator calls on Burma's military government to make major reforms ahead of planned elections.
2009-03-15
Chinese security forces have blanketed the region, but Tibetans are still staging small-scale protests.
2009-03-13
A desperate ethnic minority group in Burma gets more help from the U.N.'s refugee agency.
2009-03-13
Petitioning authorities for redress has a long history in China. But does the system work?
2009-03-12
North Korea announces an upcoming missile launch. But will it have the effect the isolated Stalinist country wants?
2009-03-12
Gao Zhisheng took on China's legal system at great cost. Now his wife and children are seeking U.S. asylum.
2009-03-11
U.S. and Chinese officials pledge to work together to avoid further naval confrontations.
2009-03-11
China's mental health resources are woefully inadequate, and experts say they've never been in greater demand.
2009-03-10
Lao Hmong asylum-seekers get a high-level visit but remain determined not to go back to Laos.
2009-03-10
Images of the Buddha are considered sacred in Laos. So who's stealing them?
2009-03-10
Life in hardscrabble North Korea gets harder, as authorities crack down on a key segment of the unofficial economy.
2009-03-09
China's women have legal protection against workplace discrimination—at least in theory, they say.
2009-03-07
China's media czar takes aim, but experts wonder if anyone can rein in Web 2.0.
2009-03-06
While China accuses Uyghur "separatists" of fomenting unrest, a Uyghur economics professor says, Give them jobs.
