Story Archive
2009-07-31
A Burmese court delays the verdict against opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, amid mounting international criticism.
2009-07-30
A rare glimpse of the lower ranks of Burma’s military, seen through the eyes of an active-duty sergeant.
2009-07-30
A recent court decision could pave the way for new legislation on calculating the value of human life in China.
2009-07-29
Chinese security forces fail to prevent recurring demonstrations protesting China's rule in Tibet.
2009-07-28
The death of the young son of migrant workers highlights an alarming trend of child abuse in China.
2009-07-27
A clash between mill employees and police leaves a company official dead, as workers in northeastern China's 'rustbelt' provinces grow increasingly restive over a slimming industrial sector.
2009-07-24
The director of a film about the life of a prominent Uyghur activist claims that Beijing's opposition has provided his work with much needed publicity.
2009-07-24
Chinese Web sites tying the president's son to news of a corruption probe are shut down and later reopened with the related stories missing.
2009-07-22
Poor farmers confront authorities and developers over land seized in central China and coastal provinces.
2009-07-22
A new organization in South Korea works to educate the public about North Korea's history of abductions.
2009-07-21
Chinese authorities detain five in a blood-test scam that led to clashes between police and parents concerned that their children had been infected with HIV.
2009-07-20
Authorities deny a Tibetan filmmaker and two monks the right to legal representation in what some are calling a wider crackdown on independent lawyers.
2009-07-20
A group of activists takes on environmental challenges to one of China's rivers, but encounter official obstacles along the way.
2009-07-17
Chinese authorities shut down a legal center a week after revoking the licenses of more than 50 lawyers.
2009-07-17
The United Nations takes aim at firms and individuals linked to Pyongyang’s deadly weapons program.
2009-07-17
Vivid new accounts describe violence on both sides in a deadly ethnic clash in northwestern China.
2009-07-16
A publisher is jailed after his newspaper reports on alleged official corruption in Cambodia.
2009-07-16
A publisher is jailed after his newspaper reports on alleged official corruption in Cambodia.
2009-07-16
Chinese authorities learned a lot in 2008 about how to manage media during a crisis. In the Xinjiang riots, they put it to use.
2009-07-15
In highly secretive North Korea, not even the inner-circle cognoscenti are sure who the country's next leader will be.
2009-07-14
A Chinese writer petitions for the release of a prominent Uyghur economist detained after riots in China’s ethnically divided northwest.
2009-07-13
After days of ethnic violence in Xinjiang's capital, Chinese authorities detain several journalists covering the unrest.
2009-07-10
A man contacted by RFA in Urumqi tells about his fears while the official Chinese media strive to portray a city under control and life back to normal.
2009-07-09
A prominent exile Uyghur leader says China prompted violent ethnic clashes in the country’s northwest.
2009-07-09
Chinese security forces crack down on cities with large Uyghur populations.
2009-07-08
An outspoken economist belonging to the Uyghur ethnic minority is presumed to be detained after police surrounded his home in Beijing.
2009-07-08
Deadly ethnic tensions in northwestern China may pose the biggest challenge yet to the country's vast censorship infrastructure.
2009-07-08
Chinese paramilitary police move into a tense and battle-scarred city after deadly clashes.
2009-07-07
Tiananmen Square protest leader Wu’er Kaixi, who gave the world its first glimpse of China's Uyghur minority, speaks out again.
2009-07-07
Witnesses say thousands of armed Han Chinese are on the streets of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region's capital vowing revenge after a deadly clash.
