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Chinese security forces conducted large-scale exercises in Tibet as Tibetans around the world marked the anniversary of a failed March 10, 1959 national ...

Supporters gather in the forest in southern Cambodia's Koh Kong province to remember environmentalist Chut Wutty.

At least 17 City Hall security guards and about a dozen supporters of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) are injured during a clash between ...

Ecological migrants are people who are forced to leave their homes due to various impacts of climate change (flooding, land degradation, extreme weather).

Two lawmakers from the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) were beaten outside Cambodia's parliament on Oct. 26, during a demonstration in ...

In recent years, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government has attacked critics, including activists, rights monitors, opposition lawmakers and the media.

An elite military unit is deployed to crack down on striking garment factory workers at a factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Jan. 2, 2014. Photos: ...

China's 60 years of Communist Rule: Chairman Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to purge the Communist Party and regain personal control of ...

DHARAMSALA, India: Tibetans pray for the long life of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and worry about a future without him.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader meets with President Obama and speaks to a policy research group and Washington-area Tibetans.

From Los Angeles to Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, thousands of Tibetans celebrated their religious leader's 80th birthday.

From his exile in India and in his travels around the world, the Dalai Lama has called for nonviolence, peace, and religious harmony.

The Tibetan spiritual leader meets with top U.S. lawmakers but not with President Obama, who will go to China in November.

Police open fire on striking garment workers at an industrial park in Phnom Penh on Jan. 3, 2014, killing at least four people and injuring dozens. Rights ...

Residents of a workers' apartment building belonging to a state-owned company in southwest China are reeling after their homes were demolished in the middle of ...

Farmers employ heavy doses of fertilizers and pesticides when growing fruit trees. The chemical run-off has helped contaminate the Dong River.

Unregulated Mining Leaves Behind Ravaged, Toxic Landscape.

With an eco-system transformed by uncontrolled mining, locals are first to pay the price of China's race to export rare earth metals.

The stench from a Dong River tributary causes dizziness. Many people won’t eat vegetables grown on its banks.

A river that was once a primary source of drinking water for Hong Kong has become so polluted that it is now nicknamed “Black Dragon River.”

The town of Xintang has earned the title “blue jeans capital.” But local jeans production has come at a huge environmental cost.

Proper water treatment has not kept pace with construction in Shenzhen.

Laos undertakes construction of a controversial 260-megawatt dam on the Mekong River, pledging transparency and benefits to the local population. In March, our ...

The farmers have held several police and officials captive since an April 15 clash over land.

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch denies killing several inmates with his own hands at his landmark international tribunal in Phnom Penh.

Political opposition to the Hun Sen regime in Cambodia registered significant gains in provincial, municipal, and district council elections on May 18. ...

In Cambodia, even a call to protect the environment is perceived as a political threat. Forest activists and NGOs were banned from marching in Phnom Penh on ...

Infographic data on the corruption in the Yunnan Kunming Fanya Nonferrous Metal Exchange, or Fanya, the first exchange platform for non-ferrous metal in China.

In recent weeks residents living in coastal areas or along rivers in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam have seen heavy rains and storms that left their ...

Cambodian authorities have rejected a request from 20 unions to assemble in Phnom Penh. The unions wanted to celebrate International Labor Day at Freedom Park ...