Search results

A reporter takes an intimate look at North Korean teenagers adjusting to life in the South.

Chinese Web sites tying the president's son to news of a corruption probe are shut down and later reopened with the related stories missing.

Poor farmers confront authorities and developers over land seized in central China and coastal provinces.

A new organization in South Korea works to educate the public about North Korea's history of abductions.

Chinese authorities detain five in a blood-test scam that led to clashes between police and parents concerned that their children had been infected with HIV.

Authorities deny a Tibetan filmmaker and two monks the right to legal representation in what some are calling a wider crackdown on independent lawyers.

As the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh sheds light on horrors perpetrated by that regime thirty years ago, Dan Southerland recalls that reporters and ...

Burma is known for heavy-handed Internet controls, but its children may demand greater access and openness.

China's separate subsidy programs may work at cross-purposes with power-saving goals.

A group of activists takes on environmental challenges to one of China's rivers, but encounter official obstacles along the way.

Chinese authorities shut down a legal center a week after revoking the licenses of more than 50 lawyers.

The United Nations takes aim at firms and individuals linked to Pyongyang’s deadly weapons program.

Vivid new accounts describe violence on both sides in a deadly ethnic clash in northwestern China.

A publisher is jailed after his newspaper reports on alleged official corruption in Cambodia.

A publisher is jailed after his newspaper reports on alleged official corruption in Cambodia.

Chinese authorities learned a lot in 2008 about how to manage media during a crisis. In the Xinjiang riots, they put it to use.

In highly secretive North Korea, not even the inner-circle cognoscenti are sure who the country's next leader will be.

A Chinese writer petitions for the release of a prominent Uyghur economist detained after riots in China’s ethnically divided northwest.

China's energy risk grows with reliance on Xinjiang.

After days of ethnic violence in Xinjiang's capital, Chinese authorities detain several journalists covering the unrest.

A man contacted by RFA in Urumqi tells about his fears while the official Chinese media strive to portray a city under control and life back to normal.

Thousands of paramilitary police enter Urumqi to maintain order as ethnic tensions remain high following violent riots over the weekend.

A prominent exile Uyghur leader says China prompted violent ethnic clashes in the country’s northwest.

Chinese security forces crack down on cities with large Uyghur populations.

An outspoken economist belonging to the Uyghur ethnic minority is presumed to be detained after police surrounded his home in Beijing.

Two days after deadly race riots batter China’s northwestern city of Urumqi, Uyghur women call for the release of detainees, while armed Han Chinese roam the ...

Deadly ethnic tensions in northwestern China may pose the biggest challenge yet to the country's vast censorship infrastructure.

Chinese paramilitary police move into a tense and battle-scarred city after deadly clashes.

A precarious calm has been restored to the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as the U.S. and Europe call for restraint.

Tiananmen Square protest leader Wu’er Kaixi, who gave the world its first glimpse of China's Uyghur minority, speaks out again.