Story Archive
2009-04-30
Workers have staged demonstrations for money they say their factory owes them, vowing to take their protest to Beijing.
2009-04-29
Tensions escalate as North Korea threatens to conduct a new nuclear test.
2009-04-29
Will two U.S. journalists arrested on the Chinese-North Korean border soon face trial?
2009-04-29
A rights group calls on China to crack down on the sale of women who leave isolated, Stalinist North Korea in search of a better life.
2009-04-29
A Burmese man describes how he was forced to beat other illegal workers by a Malaysian trafficking gang to buy his own freedom.
2009-04-28
Vietnam’s most powerful ruling body approves a controversial mining plan amid increased concern over its potential environmental and social impacts.
2009-04-24
A new report prompts Malaysia to investigate persistent allegations that Burmese migrants have suffered gravely, while traffickers act with impunity.
2009-04-22
The Burmese junta tortures 'a lot' of its critics, says a senior U.N. official, who also says he expects human rights monitoring to increase.
2009-04-22
As the 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown approaches, Chinese netizens find ways to work around government censorship.
2009-04-22
Comments by a Beijing professor enrage petitioners, who descend on his office and prompt a police crackdown.
2009-04-21
Laos is taking steps to address chronic and widespread malnutrition among its youngest citizens.
2009-04-21
Chinese parents are banding together to search for children who have been stolen and sold as slave laborers, saying police haven't acted quickly or thoroughly enough.
2009-04-20
North Korea's leader appears increasingly ill, and time may be running out to find a successor.
2009-04-17
Vietnam uses its tough media laws to close a newspaper for allegedly fanning nationalist flames over a territorial dispute with China.
2009-04-17
Known for their sidesplitting, irreverent comedy, Burma's Moustache Brothers have found a way around the ban that keeps them from performing in public.
2009-04-16
A Muslim minority group unrecognized by Burma's military regime has sparked a diplomatic flurry, as they take to the high seas to escape persecution.
2009-04-15
A member of a Muslim ethnic group in China has been sentenced to jail for separatism after informing friends abroad of a local protest.
2009-04-15
The anniversary of the death of ousted Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang ushers in a politically sensitive period for Beijing, 20 years after massive protests triggered by his funeral.
2009-04-14
China unveils an ambitious plan to extend health care to all its citizens, even in the country's poorest and most remote areas.
2009-04-14
Violent unrest in Thailand may have a lasting impact on its neighbors and on how Western governments operate in the region.
2009-04-14
A day after its rocket launch drew a strong U.N. rebuke, North Korea quits disarmament talks and orders U.N. inspectors to leave the country.
2009-04-13
The U.N. Security Council vows to tighten sanctions on North Korea after its latest rocket launch. Will it work?
2009-04-13
China launches a national plan to improve the civil, economic, and political rights of its citizens over the next two years.
2009-04-12
Laos gets a rare visit from the U.N. chief, who urges the country to address widening gaps between haves and have-nots.
2009-04-10
North Korea's rocket launch escalates tensions with South Korea, and the Kaesong border industrial zone feels the pinch.
2009-04-09
Was North Korea's missile launch meant to send a message abroad or to address internal issues?
2009-04-09
Cambodians don't trust their own legal system, and corruption allegations in a high-profile Khmer Rouge trial don't help.
2009-04-09
Cambodians don't trust their own legal system, and corruption allegations in a high-profile Khmer Rouge trial don't help.
2009-04-09
A French scholar takes the stand in Cambodia, becoming the first witness in a landmark trial of ex-Khmer Rouge leaders.
2009-04-09
A French scholar takes the stand in Cambodia, becoming the first witness in a landmark trial of ex-Khmer Rouge leaders.
