Story Archive
2013-02-18
A pro-Beijing politician is pessimistic about plans for universal suffrage in Hong Kong.
2013-02-18
Local authorities in China are accused of protecting polluting companies.
2013-02-17
The self-immolation marks the second to hit China’s Gansu province in days.
2013-02-15
A Kachin religious leader says soldiers from the Burmese ethnic group are forcing children to serve.
2013-02-15
Attention to North Korea’s water problems comes from an unlikely source.
2013-02-15
Cambodian lawmakers pass a law that helps clear the way for development of a new dam.
2013-02-15
Displaced persons in Burma’s Kachin state say their homes were broken into while they fled to camps to avoid fierce battles between rebels and the military.
2013-02-15
Chinese man sets himself ablaze after developers evict his family and destroy his home.
2013-02-15
A watchdog group says Vietnam's downward trend in press freedom is among the worst in the world.
2013-02-15
A Chinese family demands justice for their daughter who was struck twice by a driver they believe is a member of a criminal gang.
2013-02-14
Cambodian villagers fear displacement and destruction of ancestral land.
2013-02-14
Cambodian villagers fear displacement and destruction of ancestral land.
2013-02-14
Cambodian garment workers say they are owed two months of wages after their factory owner fled the country.
2013-02-14
Cambodian garment workers say they are owed two months of wages after their factory owner fled the country.
2013-02-14
Authorities in Beijing and Shanghai round up petitioners during the Chinese Lunar New Year.
2013-02-14
A former Shanxi official gets a warm reception from business leaders and Chinese Communist Party members upon his release from jail.
2013-02-14
A new Tibetan self-immolation occurs in Gansu province.
2013-02-13
Intellectual and rights groups demand an explanation from Chinese authorities on travel restrictions imposed on a Uyghur scholar.
2013-02-13
Rights groups say Vietnam is holding over 30 bloggers and netizens for speaking out.
2013-02-13
New self-immolations are reported in Sichuan and Nepal.
2013-02-13
Chinese commentators and netizens say they see North Korea's atomic blast as a threat to their own country.
2013-02-12
Instead, they observe a subdued holiday to pray for Tibetans who died in self-immolations.
2013-02-12
Pyongyang is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on its nuclear program while its citizens starve.
2013-02-12
Tibetan activists celebrate a hundred-year-old declaration of independence from China.
2013-02-12
China joins others at the UN Security Council in condemning North Korea’s nuclear test.
2013-02-12
Pyongyang defies UN resolutions banning it from developing nuclear and missile technology.
2013-02-11
New rules against Cambodian lawyers are expected to discourage them from using the media to assert the legal rights of oppressed groups.
2013-02-11
New rules against Cambodian lawyers are expected to discourage them from using the media to assert the legal rights of oppressed groups.
2013-02-11
The special rapporteur on human rights travels to Burma to investigate camps for the displaced in Rakhine and Kachin states.
2013-02-11
Authorities in Laos release a woman who had been held incommunicado for three months.
