Story Archive
2008-11-25
Up to 20 people are in hospital after violence erupted in a dispute between villagers and mine employees in Chongqing.
2008-11-25
Cab drivers in the central province of Hubei are the latest in a string of disputes that have brought China's ubiquitous taxi services to a standstill.
2008-11-24
After a week of meetings, many Tibetans still support the Middle Way. Others seek independence.
2008-11-24
China’s Internet police warn netizens not to spread “harmful information,” expert says.
2008-11-21
The Dalai Lama's eldest brother, Gyalo Thondup, reflects on Deng Xiaoping and what went wrong for Tibet.
2008-11-21
Nearly 80 million cluster bombs dropped on Laos by the U.S. military during the Vietnam war failed to explode on contact and continue to kill and maim today.
2008-11-21
Local officials and residents say a curfew has been imposed on Longnan city following two days of violence between police and protesters.
2008-11-20
Burma’s powerful military returns a child soldier to his family.
2008-11-20
Hubei-based petitioner Guo Dajing has called for international pressure after he was detained at an unofficial detention center and severely beaten.
2008-11-20
Court officials and Tibetans say many Tibetans are now being handed jail terms as part of an ongoing crackdown.
2008-11-19
China's $586-billion stimulus plan serves economic and political needs, experts say.
2008-11-19
More than 100 people are arrested in Gansu after a massive riot over land.
2008-11-19
After the arrest of Nanjing-based political activist and blogger Guo Quan, authorities ask questions about his opposition party.
2008-11-19
As Tibetans in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala look for a new policy direction, Beijing warns against any move for Tibetan independence.
2008-11-19
A foreign ministry spokesman in Beijing describes allegations of Chinese spying as "sheer fabrication."
2008-11-18
A film about Tibet is honored in London.
2008-11-18
With more than 1.3 billion people, China is the world's most populous country. But population growth has slowed in recent years as a result of the one-child policy, in effect since 1979.
2008-11-18
Eight rounds of dialogue between Tibetan envoys and Chinese Communist officials have failed. What will happen next?
2008-11-18
A Uyghur woman in China avoids a forced abortion, in a case that has drawn international attention.
2008-11-18
Some say controls over China's Internet look set to get even tighter, as authorities arrest a prominent Nanjing blogger.
2008-11-17
A Uyghur woman now living in the United States describes her own experience of the one-child policy.
2008-11-17
Tibetan leaders in exile gather in Dharamsala, India for a rare meeting that could usher in a more radical approach to their long struggle against Chinese rule in Tibet. The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, called the meeting after admitting that his attempts to secure greater autonomy had failed.
2008-11-17
Developers are filling in Boeung Kak Lake, in central Phnom Penh, as part of redevelopment plan that will bring high-end commercial and residential properties to the area.
2008-11-14
Residents of Du'an Yao autonomous county in southwestern China face down local officials and riot police over a proposed property development.
2008-11-14
Police move in to quell rising protests in China's former industrial boomtown as hundreds of workers at a closed factory gather to demand three months' back pay.
2008-11-13
Bereaved parents say authorities in Sichuan are preventing them from holding memorials for children who died in the massive May 12 earthquake.
2008-11-13
Many among the millions of people made homeless by China's devastating May 12 earthquake are facing winter without temporary housing, bedding, and heating equipment.
2008-11-12
Tibetan-Chinese talks have failed, Chinese officials say. And Tibetans are debating what to do next.
2008-11-12
Residents of a workers' apartment building belonging to a state-owned company in southwest China are reeling after their homes were demolished in the middle of the night, according to online accounts
2008-11-12
One woman is injured and a man detained after police clash with islanders staging a sit-in in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.
