Story Archive
2008-12-30
Parents of children killed in the Sichuan earthquake are detained to prevent petitions during a visit by China’s president.
2008-12-30
Far from steering China through 30 years of economic reform toward an economic miracle, a former top official says the Communist Party has greatly damaged the country's economic development, drawing parallels with what the warlords were able to achieve in 1927.
2008-12-29
China plans a new press campaign to strengthen the Communist Party's image in the coming year, while writings on Taiwan and other 'sensitive' topics will receive closer scrutiny.
2008-12-29
A former top Communist Party official looks back on a "uniquely lively" Party plenum, but says the real forces for change lay elsewhere. Part 2 in a series to mark 30 years of Chinese economic reform.
2008-12-29
Deng Xiaoping saw himself as a man set apart from the common herd, and his only aim was to save the Chinese Communist Party, according to a former top official.
2008-12-27
Former top Communist Party official Bao Tong examines the reasons behind the Communist Party's move toward economic reform, begun 30 years ago this month.
2008-12-24
Human rights activists speak out against a new regulation in China's Shanxi province that they say targets the rights of petitioners.
2008-12-24
Signatories to Charter 08, a document which called recently for sweeping political change in China, will be barred from contributing articles to state-controlled media, a top official news executive says.
2008-12-23
Four children in a group of would-be North Korean defectors arrested in Burma had mothers waiting for them in South Korea.
2008-12-23
Clashes erupt in eastern China over property demolitions and forced evictions.
2008-12-22
More jail terms are handed down to Tibetans implicated in widespread anti-China protests earlier this year.
2008-12-22
Nanjing police inform the wife of Guo Quan, a blogger and political activist who tried to found an opposition party, that he has now been formally charged with subversion.
2008-12-22
The head of China's judiciary calls on courts to maintain social stability amid the economic crisis.
2008-12-18
A Burmese lawyer now in exile says authorities tortured evidence out of his clients.
2008-12-18
Authorities launch separate raids on unofficial Christian worshipers in the east and southwest of the country, as Christmas approaches.
2008-12-18
Chinese officials report an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza virus among poultry flocks in eastern Jiangsu province.
2008-12-17
Police in China rule a detainee’s death a suicide in what family members say may be a move to avoid an incriminating autopsy.
2008-12-17
After a limited opening up of the Internet during the Olympics, China is again blocking key Web sites with 'sensitive' or foreign news.
2008-12-16
A mobile phone service is launched in North Korea, but who will have access to it is unclear.
2008-12-15
Taiwanese jetliners and cargo ships leave for China, kicking off a new era of direct air and shipping services across the Taiwan Strait, and formally ending a nearly six-decade ban on regular links between the rivals.
2008-12-15
A Burmese social activist wanted for helping the victims of Cyclone Nargis says the authorities have sentenced his pregnant wife to 26 years in jail.
2008-12-14
Beijing authorities are still holding Beijing-based writer Liu Xiaobo after the online publication of a document calling for sweeping political reforms.
2008-12-13
Recent detentions, interrogations, and searches of Chinese intellectuals who signed a document calling for widespread political change pose a challenge to China's Constitution, a former top Communist Party aide has said.
2008-12-11
Local groups see no progress this year in human rights in Cambodia.
2008-12-11
Local groups see no progress this year in human rights in Cambodia.
2008-12-11
Chinese citizens trying to pursue complaints against the authorities can find themselves committed to psychiatric hospitals and forcibly medicated.
2008-12-11
Authorities at a top university in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao are talking to police after the alleged beating of five ethnic minority Uyghur students.
2008-12-10
Chinese police move against key dissidents who signed an open charter calling for reform on the eve of World Human Rights Day.
2008-12-10
On the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, overseas human rights groups call for change in Laos.
2008-12-09
With blogging on the rise in Vietnam, authorities plan tighter curbs and tougher monitoring.
