Story Archive
2009-02-12
Chinese officials are warned to take measures to prevent mass protests as the economy worsens.
2009-02-11
Two top officials say bribery is commonplace in bidding on major construction projects in Laos.
2009-02-11
A man beaten by authorities to the point of mental illness in the 1970s is still trying to lodge a complaint about his treatment.
2009-02-10
Chinese authorities offer a jailed Uyghur scholar and his wife jobs if they will stay in China.
2009-02-09
Chinese authorities have sent scholars to talk to house church pastors; but detained worshipers are denied contact with their lawyer and are yet to be charged.
2009-02-06
A North Korean defector endured nine years of labor camp because of her friendship with a mistress of former supreme leader Kim Il Sung.
2009-02-06
Internet cafes in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have become a new setting for confrontations between Uyghurs and Han Chinese.
2009-02-05
Details of recent protests in China's Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture are emerging, as Tibetans in exile relate accounts provided by relatives and friends in the troubled region.
2009-02-05
Burmese nationals and other foreigners in Chinese prisons face forced labor under brutal conditions.
2009-02-04
A Chinese-language equivalent of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, known as WikiLib, has been taken offline temporarily, with no further explanation.
2009-02-04
Scientists warn of further disasters as dam reservoirs are blamed for the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Their voices are finally being heard.
2009-02-03
A Cambodian property developer forcefully evicts residents to develop a commercial site in the capital Phnom Penh. Talk of compensation ends in the midst of confusion over land rights.
2009-02-03
A Cambodian property developer forcefully evicts residents to develop a commercial site in the capital Phnom Penh. Talk of compensation ends in the midst of confusion over land rights.
2009-02-02
Young North Korean defectors adjust to life and learning in the South with the help of alternative schools.
2009-01-30
A Uyghur farmer talks about his struggle against forced crop production in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
2009-01-30
Burmese guards beat prisoners and deprived them of food after a riot following last year’s cyclone. A group of survivors was sentenced on Jan. 11 to additional terms of 2-12 years.
2009-01-30
Fresh protests are reported in troubled Tibetan areas of China's Sichuan province.
2009-01-30
A young Tibetan dies in detention, raising questions about his treatment in custody.
2009-01-29
Rangoon police tell reporters they seized 89 kilograms of heroin bound for Singapore.
2009-01-29
Burmese authorities made several cuts to U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration speech, in particular the sections dealing with authoritarian regimes.
2009-01-28
Blind lawyer and activist Chen Guangcheng's wife says he is ill, but authorities have not responded to a request for medical parole.
2009-01-28
The families of political prisoners across China say they have been refused permission to visit their loved ones in jail over the traditional Lunar New Year holiday period.
2009-01-27
Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.
2009-01-27
Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.
2009-01-27
Chinese petitioners with complaints against the government are detained outside the Beijing residence of Premier Wen Jiabao.
2009-01-27
Chinese authorities have put one writer under house arrest and restricted the freedom of another amid continuing police investigations into Charter 08, a document calling for broad political change.
2009-01-26
The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died in police custody has demanded an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death, as China's petitioners gear up for a season of parliamentary meetings.
2009-01-26
Chinese authorities question thousands in a campaign that rights activists say is focused on finding participants in last year's Lhasa unrest.
2009-01-25
Chinese protest "propaganda" in traditional television gala as others head overseas in spite of months of bad news for the economy. In Vietnam, a province mourns dozens of holiday shoppers killed in a ferry accident.
2009-01-23
How do people in China see the new U.S. administration?
