Story Archive
2009-07-31
A Burmese court delays the verdict against opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, amid mounting international criticism.
2009-07-30
A rare glimpse of the lower ranks of Burma’s military, seen through the eyes of an active-duty sergeant.
2009-07-30
A recent court decision could pave the way for new legislation on calculating the value of human life in China.
2009-07-29
China’s Green Dam software is part of the government’s latest efforts to censor the Internet and curtail freedom of speech, but bugs in the program and widespread protests have delayed nationwide implementation.
2009-07-29
Chinese security forces fail to prevent recurring demonstrations protesting China's rule in Tibet.
2009-07-28
The death of the young son of migrant workers highlights an alarming trend of child abuse in China.
2009-07-27
China's death rate in coal mines drops as production pressure eases.
2009-07-27
A clash between mill employees and police leaves a company official dead, as workers in northeastern China's 'rustbelt' provinces grow increasingly restive over a slimming industrial sector.
2009-07-24
The director of a film about the life of a prominent Uyghur activist claims that Beijing's opposition has provided his work with much needed publicity.
2009-07-24
A reporter takes an intimate look at North Korean teenagers adjusting to life in the South.
2009-07-24
Chinese Web sites tying the president's son to news of a corruption probe are shut down and later reopened with the related stories missing.
2009-07-22
Poor farmers confront authorities and developers over land seized in central China and coastal provinces.
2009-07-22
A new organization in South Korea works to educate the public about North Korea's history of abductions.
2009-07-21
Chinese authorities detain five in a blood-test scam that led to clashes between police and parents concerned that their children had been infected with HIV.
2009-07-20
Authorities deny a Tibetan filmmaker and two monks the right to legal representation in what some are calling a wider crackdown on independent lawyers.
2009-07-20
As the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh sheds light on horrors perpetrated by that regime thirty years ago, Dan Southerland recalls that reporters and photographers were also not spared.
2009-07-20
Burma is known for heavy-handed Internet controls, but its children may demand greater access and openness.
2009-07-20
China's separate subsidy programs may work at cross-purposes with power-saving goals.
2009-07-20
A group of activists takes on environmental challenges to one of China's rivers, but encounter official obstacles along the way.
2009-07-17
Chinese authorities shut down a legal center a week after revoking the licenses of more than 50 lawyers.
2009-07-17
The United Nations takes aim at firms and individuals linked to Pyongyang’s deadly weapons program.
2009-07-17
Vivid new accounts describe violence on both sides in a deadly ethnic clash in northwestern China.
2009-07-16
A publisher is jailed after his newspaper reports on alleged official corruption in Cambodia.
2009-07-16
A publisher is jailed after his newspaper reports on alleged official corruption in Cambodia.
2009-07-16
Chinese authorities learned a lot in 2008 about how to manage media during a crisis. In the Xinjiang riots, they put it to use.
2009-07-15
In highly secretive North Korea, not even the inner-circle cognoscenti are sure who the country's next leader will be.
2009-07-14
A Chinese writer petitions for the release of a prominent Uyghur economist detained after riots in China’s ethnically divided northwest.
2009-07-14
Detailed map and graphics featuring food production and distribution in North Korea.
2009-07-13
On July 7, two days after violence rocked Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, Uyghur women rose to demand the return of their men, arrested in large numbers by Chinese police.
2009-07-13
China's energy risk grows with reliance on Xinjiang.
