Story Archive
2009-01-30
A Uyghur farmer talks about his struggle against forced crop production in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
2009-01-30
Burmese guards beat prisoners and deprived them of food after a riot following last year’s cyclone. A group of survivors was sentenced on Jan. 11 to additional terms of 2-12 years.
2009-01-30
Fresh protests are reported in troubled Tibetan areas of China's Sichuan province.
2009-01-30
A chronology of some of the main events in modern China-Tibet relations since 1950.
2009-01-30
A young Tibetan dies in detention, raising questions about his treatment in custody.
2009-01-29
Rangoon police tell reporters they seized 89 kilograms of heroin bound for Singapore.
2009-01-29
Burmese authorities made several cuts to U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration speech, in particular the sections dealing with authoritarian regimes.
2009-01-29
Several hundred students in Maoming city, Guangdong province, went on a rampage in the lunch room of their high school, overturning tables because the food was rotten, they claimed. An RFA listener sent this video, captured on a cell phone during the riot.
2009-01-29
Petitioners in China are targeting the annual meetings of local parliaments in January and February to air their grievances, with the aim of having their issues brought before the National People’s Congress in March. But human rights activists warn of tighter crackdowns against the growing number of people seeking justice from the communist party.
2009-01-28
Blind lawyer and activist Chen Guangcheng's wife says he is ill, but authorities have not responded to a request for medical parole.
2009-01-28
The families of political prisoners across China say they have been refused permission to visit their loved ones in jail over the traditional Lunar New Year holiday period.
2009-01-27
China has cited progress on reducing coal mining deaths, but doubts
persist about illegal mines.
2009-01-27
Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.
2009-01-27
Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.
2009-01-27
Chinese petitioners with complaints against the government are detained outside the Beijing residence of Premier Wen Jiabao.
2009-01-27
Chinese authorities have put one writer under house arrest and restricted the freedom of another amid continuing police investigations into Charter 08, a document calling for broad political change.
2009-01-26
People prayed at temples, performed rituals, and decorated streets and buildings to usher in the Lunar New Year across Asia on Jan. 26. But the mood was dampened by an economic crisis that is already taking a toll on ordinary people’s lives.
2009-01-26
The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died in police custody has demanded an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death, as China's petitioners gear up for a season of parliamentary meetings.
2009-01-26
Chinese authorities question thousands in a campaign that rights activists say is focused on finding participants in last year's Lhasa unrest.
2009-01-25
Chinese protest "propaganda" in traditional television gala as others head overseas in spite of months of bad news for the economy. In Vietnam, a province mourns dozens of holiday shoppers killed in a ferry accident.
2009-01-23
How do people in China see the new U.S. administration?
2009-01-23
North Korea's thriving black-market economy now includes real estate.
2009-01-23
Asian Americans joined the Presidential Inauguration festivities. On the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, an elegant crowd of supporters gathered at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington DC for an evening of music, speeches and mingling. An Asian American presence could be seen throughout the ceremonies on January 20th.
2009-01-23
A censored version of U.S. President Barack Obama’s inaugural address leaves Chinese viewers puzzled.
2009-01-23
Burmese groups condemn the lack of health care for political prisoners after the wife of a young activist suffers a miscarriage in jail.
2009-01-22
View a selection of pictures taken by Ho Shan on Inauguration Day, January 20th 2009, as the 44th president of the United States, Barak H. Obama, was sworn in front of the Capitol.
2009-01-22
Human trafficking shows no sign of abating. The U.S. State Department estimates that between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international boundaries each year. Millions more are enslaved within national borders, often in brothels or forced labor camps. Corruption, poverty, and lawlessness all contribute to the problem in East Asia.
2009-01-22
Censors in China quickly halted state television's live broadcast of Barak Obama speech on January 21st local time when they heard references to communism and dissent.
2009-01-21
A proposed plan to increase China's mandatory retirement age for women has led to a fierce debate in the rapidly aging country.
2009-01-21
Tibetans and police report a protest and an explosion in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
