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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 ...

Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei send a prominent cyber-activist serving a suspended sentence back to jail. Meanwhile, in neighboring ...

Three Burmese women who went to work legally in Malaysia are now being held in one of the country's notorious immigration jails after they lodged a complaint ...

An unremarkable South Korean village is home to a little-known cemetery for North Korean war dead.

Bereaved parents who lost children when their schools collapsed in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan have vowed to continue their legal battle after officials ...

As Cambodia's election campaign heats up, a journalist linked to the opposition is killed along with his son.

As Cambodia's election campaign heats up, a journalist linked to the opposition is killed along with his son.

As the Olympic torch makes its way north to Beijing, authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong boost security around the home of a jailed family ...

Authorities in Xinjiang execute two Uyghurs for alleged terror links. Fifteen others are sentenced.

Chinese authorities cancel a Tibetan festival that erupted in protests a year ago.

World Bank backs proposal for an international food reserve to meet emergencies and curb runaway prices, as G8 nations pledge to study the plan.

Chinese police stage a dramatic raid on a flat occupied by ethnic Uyghurs in the restive Xinjiang region.

Cambodia's long-lost "jungle girl" makes progress in small steps after 18 years in the forest.

Cambodia's long-lost "jungle girl" makes progress in small steps after 18 years in the forest.

Vietnam's outlawed Unified Buddhist Church plans a funeral for its outspoken patriarch.

A provincial Communist Party boss and former top Party aide take aim at officials after rioting in southwestern China.

Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou say a teenage girl whose death sparked mass riots in Weng'an county died from drowning, as police ...

A monk describes the grisly task faced by his team of volunteers in dealing with the bodies of those who died in Cyclone Nargis.

China’s price hike for fuel has created demand for more oil, which may be just the opposite of what the government planned, experts say.