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The Chinese authorities refuse to issue a visa to a New York Times reporter.

Tibetan writer Woeser has a message for the state security police who confronted her at the Lhasa Railway Station.

World's top coal producer is biggest importer.

The Burmese government is asked to end the Kachin conflict through peaceful means instead of military force.

The Burmese government allows privately-owned newspapers to be published in a new reform move.

Chinese police drag a South Korean pastor away as he gives his sermon.

China 'reiterates' a widely ignored ban on abuses in its jails and prisons.

Lao authorities jail a village woman who sought help for herself and others over compensation for their land.

China grapples with growing calls for transparency.

Rights groups slam the verdicts on two court cases, saying 2012 is the worst year in a decade for rule of law in Cambodia.

Rights groups slam the verdicts on two court cases, saying 2012 is the worst year in a decade for rule of law in Cambodia.

Fighting intensifies after a military ultimatum to rebels in Burma's Kachin state is ignored.

Police seize a dissident lawyer and blogger who wrote on 'forbidden' topics.

Chinese workers demand compensation for work performed during a period of 'restructuring.'

Seventy-one intellectuals in China ask the country's new leaders to embrace moderate political reforms.

A Cambodian land activist is released after a three-month pre-trial detention criticized by rights groups

A Cambodian land activist is released after a three-month pre-trial detention criticized by rights groups

Chinese dissident had posted photos of the death scene of an activist declared a 'suicide' by authorities.

Burma's president seeks greater transparency in government as a spur to reforms.

Chinese authorities round up petitioners and 'unofficial' worshippers during Christmas.

China moves to further tighten restrictions on Internet usage in 2012.

A Chinese campaigner for victims of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake is ordered jailed for 'disrupting public order.'

The Chinese activist gets a severe punishment after complaining about beatings he received at a labor camp.

The Burmese military want Kachin rebels to stop blocking a key route to be used by government troops.

Chinese netizens are encouraged to send Christmas cards to incarcerated dissident Gao Zhisheng.

Financing may reduce reliance on Russian gas.

Bloggers, writers and activists from Vietnam, Burma, and China dominate Hellman/Hammett Awards.

Rice farmers say they were denied water rights as members of Cambodia’s political opposition.

Rice farmers say they were denied water rights as members of Cambodia’s political opposition.

Tibetans jailed for political offenses suffer abuse at a Chinese prison near Lhasa.