Story Archive
2008-08-28
Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai.
2008-08-28
Unarmed Uyghur police come under attack while searching for suspects in an August clash.
2008-08-26
Unusual incident reveals that successful recruiters are rewarded with money and rice.
2008-08-26
Americans expelled from China for Olympic protests speak about their fears and loss of control during interrogation
2008-08-25
Tibetan schoolchildren, now refugees in India, use art to express their thoughts about their homeland, their families, and China’s Olympics.
2008-08-20
Massive rainfall and overflowing rivers have killed more than one hundred people in Laos and Vietnam. Bad weather is expected to persist in the lower Mekong Basin until the end of September.
2008-08-18
Beijing's "protest parks" are empty and unused, and activists say demonstrations are overtly discouraged. Police say it's because there is a good 'social environment'; a lone protester in Ritan park has another story to tell.
2008-08-14
A Communist Party document sets out new curbs on Muslim Uyghurs after a spate of attacks.
2008-08-14
A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.
2008-08-14
A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.
2008-08-13
Chinese authorities have placed a curfew on Tibetan Buddhist monasteries during the Olympics, confining monks and forbidding travel to Beijing.
2008-08-13
An activist known as a voice for angry young Tibetans is released but his movements are restricted.
2008-08-12
Further attacks on security personnel are reported near Kashgar as police in the northwestern region of Xinjiang detain 15 suspects following explosions in the far west of the region last week.
2008-08-11
A new film, Fire Under the Snow, sheds light on tensions in Tibet by looking at the life of an elderly Buddhist monk, Palden Gyatso, who survived years of torture and abuse in Chinese prisons.
2008-08-08
Still reeling from a deadly cyclone, Burmese mark 20 years since the start of a 1988 pro-democracy uprising.
2008-08-06
After reported attack, China says safety ranks as the top priority at Olympic Games.
2008-08-06
A former top Communist Party official has slammed Beijing's hosting of the Olympic Games as being built on the back of corruption and human rights abuses. "In China, we produce miscarriages of justice and trumped-up charges like a high-intensity industrial zone," writes Bao Tong, who is under house arrest at his Beijing home.
2008-08-01
Taxis in Beijing and other Chinese cities get high-tech security and surveillance equipment, including live microphones capable of transmitting audio from within the vehicle to a central monitoring station.
2008-08-01
Key rights advocates and social activists across China will spend the Olympics confined to their homes under round the clock surveillance. Some have been warned off talking to the media, while others cannot be reached by phone.
