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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.

Radio Free Asia was named 'Broadcaster of the Year' by the 2009 New York Festivals for winning the largest number of awards among participating broadcasters.

China denies falsifying data, but toughens law.

Witnesses say thousands of armed Han Chinese are on the streets of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region's capital vowing revenge after a deadly clash.

Chinese authorities say more than 700 people are detained following deadly clashes in Urumqi, as ethnic minority Uyghurs report strip-searches, roadblocks, and ...

Thousands of riot police patrol the streets of Urumqi a day after protests there ended in deadly riots. Reports describe police firing into the crowds in ...

China blames overseas Uyghurs for inciting rioting in the northwestern city, saying at least 156 people died in the violence.

Uyghur youths now under official Chinese protection describe the deadly clash in Guangdong that sparked the July 5 protests and riots.

China's northwesternmost region gets capital to finance an expanded and improved road network.