Story Archive
2012-09-07
Vietnam throws a journalist in prison for bribing police during an undercover investigation.
2012-09-07
Villagers in Burma's Sagaing division have protested for weeks against the Monywa copper mine in Salingyi township. On Sept. 5, 10,000 turned out to demand the return of land they say was illegally confiscated.
2012-09-07
Burma passes legislation in an effort to attract foreign business.
2012-09-07
Forced recruitment of ethnic Karen by the Burmese army persists despite peace talks, a relief organization says.
2012-09-07
A Chinese court sentences a teenage girl who called for Tibetan freedom.
2012-09-07
The leadership of China's outgoing president was marked by a sharp decline in human rights, an author says.
2012-09-07
Female students are furious at unequal gender standards used in China's university application process.
2012-09-07
Twin tremors knock down shoddy buildings in Yunnan and Guizhou.
2012-09-07
North Korea criticizes Chinese investment even as it banks on China to mend its broken economy.
2012-09-06
Myanmar villagers demonstrating against a copper mine fend off hundreds of police searching for protest organizers.
2012-09-06
The nation slips precariously down the rankings of a global competitiveness index.
2012-09-06
Burma’s President Thein Sein accepts parliamentary demands to sack constitutional judges.
2012-09-06
The Chinese government is suspected of the infected email attack.
2012-09-06
Chinese authorities jail a land-rights advocate for running as an 'independent' candidate.
2012-09-06
Slow trains in North Korea bring pain and gain.
2012-09-06
Students resist Beijing-directed political 'brainwashing' in Hong Kong schools.
2012-09-05
Villagers say their farmland was unlawfully taken from them by a military-backed mining venture.
2012-09-05
Residents of a restive Tibetan region are placed under tight travel restrictions.
2012-09-05
The former chairman of Vietnam’s largest state-owned shipping company is caught in a neighboring country.
2012-09-05
Facilities providing free medical care for Cambodia's poor may be shut for lack of funds.
2012-09-05
Facilities providing free medical care for Cambodia's poor may be shut for lack of funds.
2012-09-05
A key figure embroiled in China’s biggest political scandal in decades faces defection and other charges.
2012-09-05
Burma’s government is violating the religious rights of the ethnic group, according to a new report.
2012-09-05
Lao authorities look into reports of illegal abortions at Chinese clinics in Xiengkhouang.
2012-09-05
The Chinese journalist who exposed the Sanlu tainted infant formula scandal leaves his job.
2012-09-04
Monks in Burma continue protests against the Rohingya despite an order to halt the demonstrations amid security concerns.
2012-09-04
Chinese authorities confine a Uyghur widow to her home to avoid 'negative publicity' over her missing son.
2012-09-04
Authorities in southern China want an underground Christian group out of their city.
2012-09-04
An official says that no work has begun on a second dam planned for the Mekong River.
2012-09-04
Local Tibetans defy Chinese restrictions on pictures of their exiled spiritual leader.
