Story Archive
2009-01-12
Chinese authorities say they have closed down 91 Web sites, targeting big-name search engines in the latest clampdown on "vulgar content."
2009-01-09
Tibetan residents of China's Sichuan province protest Chinese rule even as authorities target opposition.
2009-01-09
In the latest in a string of detentions across China, three Beijing-based lawyers are taken in for questioning after they sign a document online calling for political reforms.
2009-01-08
More North Koreans are gaining access to foreign media broadcasts despite official crackdowns.
2009-01-07
Hundreds of ordinary Chinese with complaints against government officials are beginning protests against local branches of the People's Congress, or parliament. But activists say the authorities are stepping up surveillance and controls.
2009-01-07
Authorities in Beijing ban poultry from entering the capital from elsewhere in China following the death of a Fujian woman from the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
2009-01-05
China's Communist Party drives the country's 1.3 billion people with scant regard for their welfare, and the country's nascent civil rights movement holds the main hope for political change, a former top official says.
2009-01-04
An American academic couple abandons a visit to Burma because one of them is blacklisted.
2009-01-03
Bao Tong, a former top Communist Party official, says China's political system has a disastrous lack of checks and balances, calling it a terrifying juggernaut.
2009-01-01
Cambodia's highest court orders a retrial in the 2004 killing of a top labor leader.
2009-01-01
Cambodia's highest court orders a retrial in the 2004 killing of a top labor leader.