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A Burmese appeal court reduces two prison terms as a senior U.N. envoy visits.

U.S.-China cooperation is key to progress on climate change, policy groups say.

A major new study shows how China does, and doesn't, control bloggers.

Chinese parents rush to get babies checked as new kidney stone cases are reported. Companies and government labs insist they find no contamination.

A Uyghur woman in China whose pregnancy drew international attention has given birth to a son.

Times are likely to get tougher for Cambodia’s already impoverished workers.

Times are likely to get tougher for Cambodia’s already impoverished workers.

Chinese officials are warned to take measures to prevent mass protests as the economy worsens.

Two top officials say bribery is commonplace in bidding on major construction projects in Laos.

Chinese authorities offer a jailed Uyghur scholar and his wife jobs if they will stay in China.

Chinese authorities have sent scholars to talk to house church pastors; but detained worshipers are denied contact with their lawyer and are yet to be charged.

China plans more coal output despite link to birth defects.

A North Korean defector endured nine years of labor camp because of her friendship with a mistress of former supreme leader Kim Il Sung.

Internet cafes in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have become a new setting for confrontations between Uyghurs and Han Chinese.

Details of recent protests in China's Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture are emerging, as Tibetans in exile relate accounts provided by relatives and friends ...

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.