Story Archive
2008-04-29
Chinese people want forthcoming talks between Beijing and envoys of Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, to comprise real dialogue rather than more conflict over Tibet in another guise, a former top Communist Party aide has said.
2008-04-28
The political party of detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed news that she is to be awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, its highest civilian honor.
2008-04-27
In a rare challenge to China's massive security presence in Tibet, two Buddhist nuns have staged a public protest in Sichuan province before being taken into custody, several witnesses said.
2008-04-25
Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, has called on China to allow journalists into Tibet to investigate the recent crackdown on anti-Chinese protests there, as China said it was ready to hold talks with one of his envoys.
2008-04-23
Chinese authorities in Tibet are planning a mass rally of Han Chinese government backers to support the arrival of the Olympic torch in Tibet’s iconic Potala Palace, former home of the exiled Dalai Lama.
2008-04-22
China has begun moving to dampen a wave of mass popular anger among young people, sparked by recent protests during its Olympic torch relay over the recent crackdown in Tibet, according to journalists and academics.
2008-04-22
One person was killed and five critically wounded when police clashed with residents demonstrating against the construction of a mine in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, according to local sources and a human rights group.
2008-04-18
The Chinese student who sparked outrage among Chinese nationals who say she sided with Tibetans at a Duke University campus protest says a public apology letter purportedly written by her father is a fake. She also says her parents, whose home was vandalized in China, have gone into hiding.
2008-04-17
China is intensifying its crackdown on Tibet after the largest anti-Chinese protests there in almost 50 years. But many monks have refused to fly the Chinese flag on monastery roofs, sources in China and India say.
2008-04-16
A news researcher for the "New York Times" newspaper and cutting-edge investigative reporter has called for greater press freedom in China following his release from a three-year jail term for fraud.
2008-04-15
Chinese authorities in Tibet have arrested a leading Tibetan writer, television producer, and performer in the midst of a major crackdown on anti-Chinese protests in the region.
2008-04-14
North Korea has a well-earned reputation as one of the most tightly closed and rigorously controlled countries on Earth. But when it comes to the privacy of the bedroom, even the all-powerful North Korean Workers’ Party is largely hands-off, according to North Korean defectors.
2008-04-11
Chinese authorities in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang have imposed a curfew after a series of police raids looking for weapons and explosives.
2008-04-11
China's economic growth has been the envy of the rest of the world: Measured in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the country is booming. But if Chinese people were to gauge their country's development on a scale of national happiness, the results might look very different, depending on whom you speak to.
2008-04-10
A former head of the Chinese Communist Party's powerful propaganda department has called for reconciliation amid "sharp social contradictions," rejecting revolutionary politics amid protests and tight security in Tibetan regions.
2008-04-05
Tibetan exiles and a witness in China’s southwestern Sichuan province report further protests in the troubled Kardze region, saying four to five people were seriously injured when police fired on a crowd of up to 1,000 people.
2008-04-04
Paramilitary police in China’s southwestern Sichuan province fired on a crowd of Tibetan protesters demanding the release of two detained monks, killing and wounding an unknown number of people, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
2008-04-03
Authorities in Beijing have sentenced AIDS activist Hu Jia to 3-1/2 years in jail for "incitement to subversion" after he wrote articles online critical of China's hosting of the Olympics.
2008-04-02
China has recently pledged to continue to enforce draconian family planning policies which limit most of the country's families to just one child, in an attempt to keep its burgeoning population under control. But forced abortions, detentions and other official abuses are still being reported.
2008-04-02
Chinese police have conducted raids on several houses in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, possibly looking for weapons and explosives, according to sources in the area.
2008-04-01
Several hundred ethnic Uyghurs have staged protests in China’s remote and restive Xinjiang region following the death in custody of a prominent Uyghur businessman and philanthropist.
2008-04-01
Residents in a crowded area of the Cambodian capital were scrambling Tuesday to account for relatives and salvage what they could after a 50-meter bank of the Tonle Sap River slid into the water, leaving some 300 people homeless and an unknown number missing.
2008-04-01
Residents in a crowded area of the Cambodian capital were scrambling Tuesday to account for relatives and salvage what they could after a 50-meter bank of the Tonle Sap River slid into the water, leaving some 300 people homeless and an unknown number missing.
2008-04-01
Hundreds of high-school students from a Tibetan middle school in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu are boycotting classes to protest the recent crackdown on Tibetan protesters, as more armed police arrive in the region.
