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Will the long-awaited trial of Khmer Rouge leaders ease Cambodians' trauma, or stir painful memories?

A lawyer for Burma’s opposition leader says she never discussed anything sensitive with the American whose unwanted visit brought her 18 more months under ...

Parents in China say authorities are failing to make good on promises to test children for lead poisoning.

Women in remote Cambodian villages are turning to woodcarving as a new way to raise their standard of living.

Women in remote Cambodian villages are turning to woodcarving as a new way to raise their standard of living.

Chinese authorities release and warn a prominent Uyghur economist they accuse of inciting deadly riots in Urumqi.

A Tibetan youth is detained for viewing restricted content at an Internet cafe.

China may face import tariffs over failure to impose greenhouse gas curbs.

North Korean youths often struggle after they defect to the South, but arts and community service programs provide support.

Forget what you've learned about Muslim women as second-class citizens, experts say. Uyghur women have long played leading roles.

Chinese authorities release a well-known rights lawyer, but his assistant's whereabouts remain unknown.

Activists say Chinese authorities have video of North Korean defectors filmed by two U.S. reporters who were jailed by North Korea and then expelled.

Another case of mass lead poisoning caused by factories in central China calls the effectiveness of government regulation into question.

Women take on a bigger role after deadly riots and hundreds of detentions in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Homelessness poses a large and growing problem in China's cities, with thousands scraping by on what they can beg or earn on the streets.

The family of an exiled Uyghur leader is evicted by authorities in China who plan to demolish their building.

Duke University student Grace Wang tried to mediate between clashing Chinese and Tibetan fellow students in 2008 and paid dearly for it, drawing insults and ...

North Korea's only major import to the United States has been a highly potent grain alcohol, but new trade curbs are drying up that trade as well.

Parents riot and authorities take action over a Chinese factory blamed for lead poisoning in hundreds of children.

Chinese children are found to lack creativity as a result of the national obsession with rote learning.

China's press and the public are raising doubts about the government's claims of economic growth.

Burma’s main opposition leader dismisses reports that she might support an easing of sanctions against the country’s military junta.

The luxurious residences of North Korea's leaders stand in stark contrast to reports of the hardships endured by the majority of the country's population.

Authorities scrap plans to require software to block "unsuitable content" online.

Chinese writer Tan Zuoren goes on trial, and supporters say his plan to issue an independent report on last year's deadly earthquake is the reason.

The World Trade Organization calls for China to loosen import restrictions, but will anything change?

A U.S. Senator has secured the release of an American prisoner held in connection with the sentencing of Burma’s most prominent opposition leader.

Patients say Burmese hospitals routinely charge them for donated blood.

Three protesters are handed prison terms, as Chinese authorities maintain strict controls inside Tibet.

Rights groups condemn an appeals court ruling against a newspaper director who reported alleged corruption.