Story Archive
2009-06-03
A former student leader of Beijing's June 4, 1989 pro-democracy movement talks about her vision for China's future.
2009-05-11
On a perilous ocean journey, starvation leads refugees to the unthinkable to stay alive.
2009-05-11
After the Vietnam War (1959-75), thousands of Vietnamese took to the sea fleeing persecution by the new communist government. Three women, now resettled overseas, describe the horrors of that perilous journey.
2009-03-09
To mark International Women's Day 2009, five Chinese women discuss their experiences of work, family, and whether they are achieving gender equality.
2008-12-18
The wife of a jailed activist in Burma talks about her husband's mistreatment at the hands of his captors.
2008-12-13
A woman who has endured the hardship of caring for several jailed relatives talks about life as the member of an activist family.
2008-11-17
A Uyghur woman now living in the United States describes her own experience of the one-child policy.
2008-10-16
A Burmese mother describes her son's recruitment into the junta's armed forces.
2008-09-30
By Dan Southerland, RFA Executive Editor—Tibet's best-known female writer has evolved from a member of China's privileged elite into a forceful critic. Despite the loss of her job, the closure of her blogs, and constant surveillance, Woeser reveals through her poems the courage to speak out.
2008-09-10
British-born Chinese author Helen Tse speaks about her book, Sweet Mandarin, in which she documents a family history of three generations of strong women, rising and falling fortunes—and food.
2008-09-02
Mrs. Lang, 22, agreed to enter an arranged marriage with a wealthy Chinese man in hopes of providing for her impoverished family in Vietnam. But that wasn't how it turned out.
2008-08-20
Gao Wenjuan was alone Aug. 20 at Ritan Park, one of the three designated zones for protesting during the Olympics, although no protests have yet been permitted.
2008-04-24
Li Jingfang is the ex-wife of Wuhan-based veteran Chinese dissident Qin Yongmin, who was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in 1998 for subverting state power. In a video made ahead of Beijing's hosting of the Olympics, she calls for his early release from jail on medical grounds.
2008-04-14
Burmese politician Daw Nan Khin Htwe Myint represents Pa-An township in the country's parliament. She was one of three female university students jailed for their part in student political activism around 1975. She became a well-known political prisoner while serving her sentence in Rangoon's notorious Insein Prison, a period she still remembers with pain.
2007-11-16
A 29-year-old leading monk in recent demonstrations against the Burmese military regime, U Gambira, has been charged with treason by the junta, according to his family.
2007-11-16
Student leader Mi Mi was arrested on Oct. 13. She is 35, holds a bachelor’s degree in zoology, and has two children aged 12 and 16. Her husband is also a youth member of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD).
2007-11-13
Gao Qinsheng is the mother of jailed Chinese journalist Shi Tao, whose conviction for "revealing state secrets" was obtained by the national security police after Yahoo! turned over details of Shi's private e-mail account.
2007-05-21
Wu Chuntao was born in the southern Chinese province of Hunan in 1963. She has co-authored with her husband, Chen Guidi, The Situation of China’s Peasants , which shook the urban middle classes of China and exposed the massive corruption and hardship faced by the country’s 900 million peasants.
2007-04-19
Retired gynecologist Gao Yaojie has struggled to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS infection routes, particularly in the central Chinese province of Henan, where she says blood-selling is still rife in poverty-stricken rural communities.
2007-03-08
What makes a North Korean of relatively privileged status leave her home country and strike out into the unknown?
