Story Archive
2009-01-23
North Korea's thriving black-market economy now includes real estate.
2009-01-23
A censored version of U.S. President Barack Obama’s inaugural address leaves Chinese viewers puzzled.
2009-01-23
Burmese groups condemn the lack of health care for political prisoners after the wife of a young activist suffers a miscarriage in jail.
2009-01-21
A proposed plan to increase China's mandatory retirement age for women has led to a fierce debate in the rapidly aging country.
2009-01-21
Tibetans and police report a protest and an explosion in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
2009-01-16
A boycott is planned for Tibetan New Year celebrations as tensions build in the lead-up to the anniversary of two crushed movements against Chinese rule in the region.
2009-01-14
A Burmese labor activist in Malaysia describes how he was kidnapped and intimidated for speaking out against human trafficking.
2009-01-13
Courts in China have been instructed to reject appeals or complaints lodged against the authorities by members of unofficial "house churches," according to a lawyer who handles such cases.
2009-01-12
Chinese authorities say they have closed down 91 Web sites, targeting big-name search engines in the latest clampdown on "vulgar content."
2009-01-12
Suicide is a leading cause of death for Chinese women, and China is the only country in which the suicide rate for females is higher than for males.
2009-01-09
Tibetan residents of China's Sichuan province protest Chinese rule even as authorities target opposition.
2009-01-09
In the latest in a string of detentions across China, three Beijing-based lawyers are taken in for questioning after they sign a document online calling for political reforms.
2009-01-08
More North Koreans are gaining access to foreign media broadcasts despite official crackdowns.
2009-01-08
The family of a sick girl in an impoverished part of China gets help with her medical bills from an unlikely source: a group of rap musicians.
2009-01-07
Hundreds of ordinary Chinese with complaints against government officials are beginning protests against local branches of the People's Congress, or parliament. But activists say the authorities are stepping up surveillance and controls.
2009-01-07
Authorities in Beijing ban poultry from entering the capital from elsewhere in China following the death of a Fujian woman from the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
2009-01-05
China's Communist Party drives the country's 1.3 billion people with scant regard for their welfare, and the country's nascent civil rights movement holds the main hope for political change, a former top official says.
2009-01-04
An American academic couple abandons a visit to Burma because one of them is blacklisted.
2009-01-03
Bao Tong, a former top Communist Party official, says China's political system has a disastrous lack of checks and balances, calling it a terrifying juggernaut.
2009-01-01
Cambodia's highest court orders a retrial in the 2004 killing of a top labor leader.
2009-01-01
Cambodia's highest court orders a retrial in the 2004 killing of a top labor leader.
