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Burmese nationals and other foreigners in Chinese prisons face forced labor under brutal conditions.

A Chinese-language equivalent of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, known as WikiLib, has been taken offline temporarily, with no further explanation.

Scientists warn of further disasters as dam reservoirs are blamed for the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Their voices are finally being heard.

A Cambodian property developer forcefully evicts residents to develop a commercial site in the capital Phnom Penh. Talk of compensation ends in the midst of ...

A Cambodian property developer forcefully evicts residents to develop a commercial site in the capital Phnom Penh. Talk of compensation ends in the midst of ...

Analysts see rising risks of a trade war with China following U.S. comments on "currency manipulation."

Young North Korean defectors adjust to life and learning in the South with the help of alternative schools.

Burmese guards beat prisoners and deprived them of food after a riot following last year’s cyclone. A group of survivors was sentenced on Jan. 11 to additional ...

Fresh protests are reported in troubled Tibetan areas of China's Sichuan province.

A young Tibetan dies in detention, raising questions about his treatment in custody.

Rangoon police tell reporters they seized 89 kilograms of heroin bound for Singapore.

Burmese authorities made several cuts to U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration speech, in particular the sections dealing with authoritarian regimes.

Blind lawyer and activist Chen Guangcheng's wife says he is ill, but authorities have not responded to a request for medical parole.

The families of political prisoners across China say they have been refused permission to visit their loved ones in jail over the traditional Lunar New Year ...

China has cited progress on reducing coal mining deaths, but doubts persist about illegal mines.

Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.

Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.

Chinese petitioners with complaints against the government are detained outside the Beijing residence of Premier Wen Jiabao.

Chinese authorities have put one writer under house arrest and restricted the freedom of another amid continuing police investigations into Charter 08, a ...

Chinese authorities question thousands in a campaign that rights activists say is focused on finding participants in last year's Lhasa unrest.

The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died in police custody has demanded an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death, as China's petitioners ...

Chinese protest "propaganda" in traditional television gala as others head overseas in spite of months of bad news for the economy. In Vietnam, a province ...

How do people in China see the new U.S. administration?

North Korea's thriving black-market economy now includes real estate.

A censored version of U.S. President Barack Obama’s inaugural address leaves Chinese viewers puzzled.

Burmese groups condemn the lack of health care for political prisoners after the wife of a young activist suffers a miscarriage in jail.

Censors in China quickly halted state television's live broadcast of Barak Obama speech on January 21st local time when they heard references to communism and ...

A proposed plan to increase China's mandatory retirement age for women has led to a fierce debate in the rapidly aging country.

Tibetans and police report a protest and an explosion in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

China's oil fund plan reflects policy confusion, energy experts say.