Story Archive
2009-09-14
China’s Central Asia gas pipeline project is increasingly at risk amid ethnic unrest in Xinjiang.
2009-09-11
Poetry by teenage North Korean defectors, translated into English for the first time.
2009-09-11
Nearly two years after Burma's Saffron Revolution, an exiled leader of the monks' movement says their ranks are growing.
2009-09-11
A dissident leader among Burmese monks tries to uphold his monastic vows in prison.
2009-09-10
Internet cafes vow to 'self regulate' in advance of a politically sensitive anniversary.
2009-09-09
Two leading bloggers in China report elements of the ethnic strife in Urumqi that haven’t appeared in state-run media.
2009-09-09
Two journalists are charged with libel in Cambodia.
2009-09-09
Two journalists are charged with libel in Cambodia.
2009-09-09
The State Department says it is seeking consular access to a U.S. citizen, missing since landing last week in Burma.
2009-09-09
A new flare-up over a Chinese college that isn't what it claimed to be.
2009-09-08
The tribunal was created in 2006 to try leading members of the 1975-1979 regime and five former leaders are currently being held on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Last month, 28 victims, civil parties in the trial of former chief of the S-21 prison, boycotted the hearings in protest to limitations imposed by the court on their lawyers.
2009-09-08
A Vietnamese pro-democracy activist vows to keep fighting for reform after his release from prison.
2009-09-08
As the Lao president travels to China to seal closer economic ties, neighboring countries worry about Beijing's expanding influence.
2009-09-08
The effects of the worldwide recession and recovery may change U.S.-China relations for years, economists say.
2009-09-07
Chinese authorities order a major security presence in Xinjiang after deadly protests and a series of needle attacks.
2009-09-06
Chinese authorities pledge a hard line in Xinjiang after more deadly strife, but the top Party official there is keeping his job.
2009-09-05
Official media aren't trusted in northwest China, so where do people turn for news?
2009-09-05
Chinese leaders dismiss Xinjiang officials in a bid to address public anger in Urumqi.
2009-09-04
Fresh protests erupted in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi, one day after mass demonstrations over mysterious syringe attacks that have fanned ethnic tensions.
2009-09-04
Experts fear worse yet to come in China's northwest.
2009-09-04
A U.S.-based leader of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square protests could soon appear in court.
2009-09-03
A U.S. citizen, the relative of several jailed democracy activists, is unaccounted for after landing in the former Burmese capital, Rangoon.
2009-09-03
Han Chinese protest in China's northwest after a series of stabbings with syringes.
2009-09-03
China's homeless population and officials say government aid falls far short of what is needed.
2009-09-02
Warmer China-Taiwan ties soften the impact of the Dalai Lama’s Taiwan visit.
2009-09-02
Ethnic Karen refugees of violent clashes between the Burmese military and separatist forces describe their dangerous journey across the border to Thailand and the living conditions they are forced to endure in camps there. Video, script, and voiceover by Ingjin Naing for RFA.
2009-09-02
Tensions in China over subway construction take a violent turn.
2009-09-02
Ethnic Karen refugees fleeing armed clashes in Burma face grim conditions, and children are the most vulnerable.
2009-09-01
But allegations persist of a government role in the 2004 killing of Cambodian labor leader Chea Vichea.
2009-09-01
But allegations persist of a government role in the 2004 killing of Cambodian labor leader Chea Vichea.