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China's new offensive on Tibet may demand a different strategy in reply, writes Tibet scholar Warren Smith.

Almost 20 years after the deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests, a former PLA soldier calls for a full inquiry.

A leader of the 2007 Saffron Revolution is still fighting back from a remote prison in northern Burma.

An outspoken cyber-dissident's health is suffering badly in jail, his wife says.

A Burmese dissident's wife calls on prison authorities to treat her husband's eyesight before he goes blind.

A planned bauxite mine in Vietnam will provide jobs, but some experts fear its environmental impact.

A writer in Dharamsala provides a personal glimpse of a youth movement now redefining Tibetan culture.

Jailers in the central Burmese city of Meiktila face new allegations of abusing political detainees.

A Chinese journalist says time is running out for U.N. refugee officials to hear his asylum case.

China cites progress in pollution reduction drive as experts urge greater efforts.

A U.N. investigator calls on Burma's military government to make major reforms ahead of planned elections.

Chinese and Tibetan discuss how the international financial crisis could impact events inside Tibet and the way the Chinese leadership deals with Tibetan ...

Chinese security forces have blanketed the region, but Tibetans are still staging small-scale protests.

A desperate ethnic minority group in Burma gets more help from the U.N.'s refugee agency.

China claims a U.S. Navy ship was operating illegally in China’s “exclusive economic zone.” The United States says Chinese ships surrounded and harassed their ...

In an interview, actor and activist Richard Gere says that, in the long run, Tibets dark time will be over.

Petitioning authorities for redress has a long history in China. But does the system work?

North Korea announces an upcoming missile launch. But will it have the effect the isolated Stalinist country wants?

Gao Zhisheng took on China's legal system at great cost. Now his wife and children are seeking U.S. asylum.

U.S. and Chinese officials pledge to work together to avoid further naval confrontations.

China's mental health resources are woefully inadequate, and experts say they've never been in greater demand.

Wearing traditional Tibetan khatas, the ceremonial white scarves that symbolize goodwill, Chinese democrats join the Dalai Lama and exiled Tibetans in ...

Lao Hmong asylum-seekers get a high-level visit but remain determined not to go back to Laos.

Images of the Buddha are considered sacred in Laos. So who's stealing them?

Life in hardscrabble North Korea gets harder, as authorities crack down on a key segment of the unofficial economy.

DHARAMSALA, India: Tibetans pray for the long life of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and worry about a future without him.

A year after brutally suppressed protests in Tibet, quiet descends on Dharamsala, India, where exiled Tibetans unite in somber prayer.

China has invested billions to lock up foreign oil during the global slump.

China's women have legal protection against workplace discrimination—at least in theory, they say.

To mark International Women's Day 2009, five Chinese women discuss their experiences of work, family, and whether they are achieving gender equality.