Taiwan Talks End Amid Clashes
2008-11-07
A senior official from Beijing returns home from Taiwan after historic talks with the island's president Ma Ying-jeou sparks violent clashes.
Call for Pressure on North Korea
2008-11-06
U.S. president-elect Barack Obama gets urging from North Korean defectors and rights groups to keep up the pressure on Pyongyang.
Security Tight in Lhasa
2008-11-05
Police have stepped up security requirements for visitors to the Tibetan capital. Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama's envoys wrap up talks with Chinese officials amid ...
Chinese React to Obama Victory
2008-11-05
People in China wonder, online and out loud, what the U.S. presidential election means for them, and for the world.
Crisis Hits Chinese Workers
2008-11-04
Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in China's formerly booming coastal cities are heading home amid factory closures and labor disputes sparked by the ...
China Must Choose: Euro or Dollar?
2008-10-28
Financial institutions declaring bankruptcy due to high default rates on subprime mortgage loans triggered the financial crisis in the United States, resulting ...
Burma Sentences Six
2008-10-27
A lawyer for six jailed opposition activists vows to appeal their sentences.
Milk Parents May Sue in U.S.
2008-10-22
Chinese parents whose children died or were sickened by toxic infant milk formula are approaching U.S. lawyers in the hope of suing U.S.-based subsidiaries of ...
Call for Rural Land Rights
2008-10-22
Former top Communist Party aide Bao Tong says the recent decision to allow China's farmers to lease or transfer farmland contracted under the "responsibility" ...
Dispute Simmers Despite Reform Plan
2008-10-22
China's leaders say they will allow the transfer of land use rights between farmers but stop short of allowing them full property rights, amid a simmering land ...