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From mid-April until the end of May 1989, Muriel Southerland went out each day to photograph the student protests at Tiananmen Square. The protests grew into a ...

Burma's opposition leader, on trial for breaking the terms of her house arrest, has denied any wrongdoing, amid an international outcry over her prosecution.

Pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be tried May 18 by the Burmese military junta for breaching the terms of her house arrest in an incident ...

A former aide releases the memoirs of China's late premier, shattering an official silence on the June 1989 crackdown.

Villagers in a land dispute in eastern China clash with police.

China confirms its fourth case of A/H1N1 flu, including two people who showed symptoms of the virus in Hong Kong.

It's hard to get kids like my daughter to care about things like this. But I want them to care.

Workers at a Chinese shoe factory say they are underage, and that officials switched their identification papers to make them seem older.

Authorities tighten security as bereaved parents try to mark the anniversary of a devastating earthquake.

A prominent Uyghur economist takes outspoken aim at the Chinese government's handling of his native Xinjiang region.

Since [the 1989 crackdown], I have found my news from other sources, because it's easier to find out what's really going on that way.

U.S. officials call for medical access to a Burmese opposition leader who is ill and under house arrest.

China faces cleaner coal challenges.

On a perilous ocean journey, starvation leads refugees to the unthinkable to stay alive.

After the Vietnam War (1959-75), thousands of Vietnamese took to the sea fleeing persecution by the new communist government. Three women, now resettled ...

More than 140,000 Vietnamese boat people passed through Hong Kong over a quarter-century, and many are haunted by memories of life in the camps that housed ...

Five Tibetan monks wanted in China for staging protests at a major monastery reach safety in India.

In a new twist on land development tensions in China, authorities in Xinjiang are reclaiming orchards farmed by ethnic Uyghurs.

A pregnant British woman facing capital charges in Laos for drug-smuggling could now be moved out of the country.

Uyghur exiles assail Pakistan's decision to send a group of ethnic Uyghurs back to China, while a militant group says it has no ties with the men.

In the second installment of an interview, a Burmese migrant describes abuses suffered by himself and other Burmese at the hands of a human trafficking gang.

Stalinist North Korea slaps new curbs on farmers' markets, and on women traders trying to supplement family incomes.

Citizens frustrated by official corruption have a new weapon on their side: the Web.

Will Germany’s exiled Uyghur community take in some of the Uyghur men held at Guantanamo Bay for the last seven years?

A Mexican jet has landed in Hong Kong to retrieve Mexican nationals held in quarantine for H1N1 virus.

China’s economic presence in Burma is growing fast, filling in where sanctions have forced the United States and its allies out.

A Nigerian-born British woman, now facing a possible death sentence in Laos for alleged drug-smuggling, has been held for months.

Experts debate U.S.-China strategic ties.

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch denies killing several inmates with his own hands at his landmark international tribunal in Phnom Penh.

Thousands of children go missing in China every year, and parents say officials have so far done little to help recover them.