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According to Beijing police, 149 people filed 77 applications for permits to protest. But, police say, 74 of them were "withdrawn." Two were suspended, and one ...

Gao Wenjuan was alone Aug. 20 at Ritan Park, one of the three designated zones for protesting during the Olympics, although no protests have yet been ...

In an interview with Yahoo! News, South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak pledges to work for Korean reunification. Lee denies that relations between the two ...

Authorities in Beijing have turned down dozens of groups and individuals with grievances who wish to use the officially sanctioned Olympics “protest parks” in ...

BEIJING—This is my last day in Beijing. Yesterday I forgot to mention an important point about pirated goods. I didn't find any “official, licensed” Olympics ...

A Communist Party document sets out new curbs on Muslim Uyghurs after a spate of attacks.

A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.

A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.

China's government has put the Olympics ahead of key energy and environmental reforms, experts say. Officials are promising changes after the Games end.

An activist known as a voice for angry young Tibetans is released but his movements are restricted.

Further attacks on security personnel are reported near Kashgar as police in the northwestern region of Xinjiang detain 15 suspects following explosions in the ...

A new film, Fire Under the Snow, sheds light on tensions in Tibet by looking at the life of an elderly Buddhist monk, Palden Gyatso, who survived years of ...

Still reeling from a deadly cyclone, Burmese mark 20 years since the start of a 1988 pro-democracy uprising.

As China pushes its miners to produce more coal and meet power demand for the Olympics, a series of mining accidents has claimed dozens of lives.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) today criticized the Chinese government's apparent denial of an entry visa to an Olympic-credentialed RFA broadcaster and called on the ...

After reported attack, China says safety ranks as the top priority at Olympic Games.

Chinese authorities have sharply increased security in the northwestern Silk Road city of Kashgar after a deadly attack on police.

A former top Communist Party official has slammed Beijing's hosting of the Olympic Games as being built on the back of corruption and human rights abuses. "In ...

China mulls new emergency measures to achieve "blue skies" as the Olympics approach, but experts say the event is a false test of the country's environmental ...

Taxis in Beijing and other Chinese cities get high-tech security and surveillance equipment, including live microphones capable of transmitting audio from ...

Key rights advocates and social activists across China will spend the Olympics confined to their homes under round the clock surveillance. Some have been ...

The Czech Republic gives temporary safe haven to a group of North Korean asylum-seekers.

Updated on August 1 - China confirms that foreign journalists working out of Olympics press facilities won't have unfettered Internet access, although some ...

Cambodia's ruling party claims an election victory, but the opposition says voting was rigged.

Cambodia's ruling party claims an election victory, but the opposition says voting was rigged.

Authorities in China sentence a teacher who criticized the construction in quake-hit schools to one year in a labor camp, his wife says.

China is struggling with the inflationary effects of its currency policy three years after launching a partial reform. Speculative "hot money" is pouring into ...

Chinese citizens hoping to lodge complaints about alleged mistreatment or injustice at the hands of local officials are being tricked into filling in a form at ...

Chinese authorities in Gulja, which saw an armed crackdown on protests in 1997, are raiding homes in a security campaign they say is aimed at the country's ...

China's energy supplies are under severe strain as the Olympic Games approach. The country's main coal-producing province has run short of coal and power as it ...