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Hong Kong people turned out in force to protest the deadly Chinese crackdown of 1989, says a Hong Kong-based journalist jailed by China for almost three years ...

"It's as if they want to change the way we are," said a lama about the Chinese authorities. Monks in Tibet are struggling to continue practicing their faith in ...

A prominent ethnic Mongolian writer has had his home raided and is now being held there under tight surveillance after spending 20 days in detention. Overseas ...

Monks play a pivotal role in Burma, and never more so than in times of crisis. In his reporter's diary, veteran journalist Tyler Chapman describes what he ...

More than 22,000 people have died and hundreds of thousands are without safe drinking water or shelter in Burma after a massive cyclone ripped through the ...

As communication becomes more difficult with people living inside Tibet, cell phone conversations with family and friends overseas and second-hand accounts ...

A Chinese journalist who spent three years in prison, feared missing after he failed to show up to deliver a keynote address at a Hong Kong media conference, ...

The unprecedented surge in global food prices is making life even more difficult for residents of impoverished Laos, where one provincial official is calling ...

Southeast Asian countries are struggling to curb food prices as energy costs climb. Many governments have banned rice exports to safeguard supplies, but ...

One Chinese writer who tried to attend a symposium on press freedom was turned away by the Hong Kong authorities, while a journalist jailed after he broke ...

Soaring oil prices have forced China to speed up subsidies for fuel suppliers as the cost of the government’s policies continues to grow, experts say.

Chinese people want forthcoming talks between Beijing and envoys of Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, to comprise real dialogue rather than more conflict ...

The political party of detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed news that she is to be awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal, its ...

In a rare challenge to China's massive security presence in Tibet, two Buddhist nuns have staged a public protest in Sichuan province before being taken into ...

Guided tours to Tibet are nothing new. But in 1988, Dan Southerland recalls, a foreign correspondent could still break away from his handlers and do real ...

Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, has called on China to allow journalists into Tibet to investigate the recent crackdown on anti-Chinese protests there, ...

China’s growing reliance on the energy wealth of Xinjiang is a major concern for the government in connection with protests in neighboring Tibet, analysts say.

Li Jingfang is the ex-wife of Wuhan-based veteran Chinese dissident Qin Yongmin, who was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in 1998 for subverting state ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet are planning a mass rally of Han Chinese government backers to support the arrival of the Olympic torch in Tibet’s iconic Potala ...

China has begun moving to dampen a wave of mass popular anger among young people, sparked by recent protests during its Olympic torch relay over the recent ...

One person was killed and five critically wounded when police clashed with residents demonstrating against the construction of a mine in China’s southwestern ...

Tyler Chapman spent a week among Burmese refugees and exiles in Thailand in February. He found that few, if any, have found happiness in their flight from ...

The Chinese student who sparked outrage among Chinese nationals who say she sided with Tibetans at a Duke University campus protest says a public apology ...

During a month-long trip to Burma, Tyler Chapman saw how China has extended its grip on Burma’s economy to the point where the Burmese people are fed up.

China is intensifying its crackdown on Tibet after the largest anti-Chinese protests there in almost 50 years. But many monks have refused to fly the Chinese ...

A news researcher for the "New York Times" newspaper and cutting-edge investigative reporter has called for greater press freedom in China following his ...

In the cities and countryside of Burma, Tyler Chapman encountered heart-wrenching scenes of poverty every day of his visit in January and February, 2008.

China’s government is pouring more money into its battle against inflation, but experts say its latest food subsidies are a sign that its policies have already ...

Reporter Tyler Chapman travelled in Burma earlier this year and wrote a series of notebooks. He also took stunning photos of ordinary life in the most remote ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have arrested a leading Tibetan writer, television producer, and performer in the midst of a major crackdown on anti-Chinese ...