Story Archive
2008-10-01
China's media still labor under tight control, despite promises to loosen up.
2008-09-30
China's system of harsh punishments has done little to prevent public safety crimes like the adulteration of infant formula, experts say.
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.
2008-09-30
Anxious parents flood hospitals, vowing to fight for redress, while lawyers and rights activists warn that domestic media face curbs in reporting on the widening tainted milk crisis.
2008-09-26
Fallout from China's tainted milk-powder crisis widens in Tibet.
2008-09-25
Veteran opposition party member Win Tin has called for substantive talks with Burma's military regime on the future of his country, after his release from a 19-year jail term in Rangoon's Insein prison.
2008-09-24
Muslim Uyghur employees at government departments in China's northwest are being offered free lunches during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
2008-09-23
Nepal’s Maoists have entered the country’s political mainstream, following a war that killed thousands. But is one-party rule still their ultimate goal?
2008-09-23
China's government is trying to ease public anger over infant deaths and kidney failure caused by toxic milk products, experts say, but thousands of children remain at risk.
2008-09-23
Parents and commentators warn that Chinese officials may try to cover up the true extent of a public health crisis caused by tainted milk formula.
2008-09-19
Burmese exile Web sites come under cyber-attack.
2008-09-19
Chinese parents are rushing their children for checkups and vowing to fight for compensation, after four infants died and thousands were sickened after consuming tainted milk powder.
2008-09-19
A Catholic father in Vietnam asks the Vatican to intervene in a land dispute between the Church and the Hanoi government.
2008-09-18
Chinese parents are rushing their babies for health checks and vowing to sue amid a spreading scandal over tainted baby formula.
2008-09-18
Police are using checkpoints, interrogation, and threats to quash protests in Vietnam.