Story Archive
2009-08-31
Refugees who fled Myanmar into China after deadly clashes between junta forces and ethnic rebels have begun trickling back across the border, but some say they fear going home to more unrest. Video: AFP
2009-08-31
The lawyer for five accused democracy activists in Vietnam defends their motives, as the government prepares to try them for anti-state activities.
2009-08-31
Lead poisoning cases in China have raised concerns about the government's ability to protect the public, advocates say.
2009-08-31
Chinese ethnic minorities in northern Burma with close ties to China are fleeing across the border, describing defeat at the hands of the Burmese military regime.
2009-08-28
A young North Korean defector talks about the influence of foreign music on her classmates in North Korea's closed society.
2009-08-28
Treatment and schooling are scarce for the estimated 60,000 HIV-positive children in Ho Chi Minh City.
2009-08-27
Buddhist teachers urge more disciplined behavior from Tibetans in China.
2009-08-27
Refugees cross the Chinese border following armed clashes in northern Burma.
2009-08-27
Will the long-awaited trial of Khmer Rouge leaders ease Cambodians' trauma, or stir painful memories?
2009-08-27
Will the long-awaited trial of Khmer Rouge leaders ease Cambodians' trauma, or stir painful memories?
2009-08-26
A lawyer for Burma’s opposition leader says she never discussed anything sensitive with the American whose unwanted visit brought her 18 more months under house arrest.
2009-08-26
Parents in China say authorities are failing to make good on promises to test children for lead poisoning.
2009-08-26
Women in remote Cambodian villages are turning to woodcarving as a new way to raise their standard of living.
2009-08-26
Women in remote Cambodian villages are turning to woodcarving as a new way to raise their standard of living.
2009-08-24
Chinese authorities release and warn a prominent Uyghur economist they accuse of inciting deadly riots in Urumqi.
2009-08-24
A Tibetan youth is detained for viewing restricted content at an Internet cafe.
2009-08-24
China may face import tariffs over failure to impose greenhouse gas curbs.
2009-08-24
North Korean youths often struggle after they defect to the South, but arts and community service programs provide support.
2009-08-24
Forget what you've learned about Muslim women as second-class citizens, experts say. Uyghur women have long played leading roles.
2009-08-24
Chinese authorities release a well-known rights lawyer, but his assistant's whereabouts remain unknown.
2009-08-24
Activists say Chinese authorities have video of North Korean defectors filmed by two U.S. reporters who were jailed by North Korea and then expelled.
2009-08-21
Another case of mass lead poisoning caused by factories in central China calls the effectiveness of government regulation into question.
2009-08-21
Women take on a bigger role after deadly riots and hundreds of detentions in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
2009-08-21
Homelessness poses a large and growing problem in China's cities, with thousands scraping by on what they can beg or earn on the streets.
2009-08-20
The family of an exiled Uyghur leader is evicted by authorities in China who plan to demolish their building.
2009-08-19
Conservative columnist Robert Novak passed away on Aug. 18 at the age of 78. RFA Executive Editor Dan Southerland tells the story of a dangerous road trip with the famous commentator at the outset of the war in Cambodia in 1970.
2009-08-19
Duke University student Grace Wang tried to mediate between clashing Chinese and Tibetan fellow students in 2008 and paid dearly for it, drawing insults and death threats that sent her family in China into hiding. But she's still speaking out, and in an interview with RFA she shares her insights on Chinese online debate.
2009-08-19
North Korea's only major import to the United States has been a highly potent grain alcohol, but new trade curbs are drying up that trade as well.
2009-08-19
Parents riot and authorities take action over a Chinese factory blamed for lead poisoning in hundreds of children.
2009-08-18
Chinese children are found to lack creativity as a result of the national obsession with rote learning.
