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China’s literati call for increased freedom as the country honors its journalists.

Experts see little chance for a U.S.-China strategic breakthrough following a visit from a top Chinese military official.

Chinese netizens take aim at their government's online controls.

U.S. legislators raise rights issues ahead of President Barack Obama's first state visit to China.

Scores of Tibetans protesting a Chinese company are gathered up and taken away by police.

The Lao government dismisses reports of authorities detaining a group of pro-democracy protesters.

China's longtime investment in Africa is paying off in access to the continent's mineral wealth.

A prominent Chinese physicist takes aim at Beijing’s Uyghur policies.

More North Korean missile tests miss the mark.

They spoke up for greater freedoms in China and then traveled abroad. Now they can’t get home.

A rising number of Lao girls are being lured into Thai brothels with the promise of work.

Burmese migrant workers fall prey to traffickers with the promise of work in Thailand.

Will police in China's Sichuan province investigate a suspicious shooting in custody?

Ten years after a rare student uprising, nine people are in custody as they prepare a demonstration.

A celebrated Chinese scientist is remembered.

"We’re working for Tibet through our music," says Jigme, lead guitarist for the Exile Brothers band in Dharamsala, India.

China says it will cooperate with the International Energy Agency to improve data.

Members of a Chinese ethnic minority newly freed from U.S. custody say they can't communicate with friends and family.

The ancestral lifestyle of the Khampa nomads in Tibet is threatened by a forced modernization.

Dzachu, Tibetan for the Mekong River, is said to be sacred by nomads living on the Qinghai plateau.

Another group of Uyghur detainees is freed from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay.

A man at the center of a story related to China’s tough one-child policy is in custody.

Writers protest alleged infringements, in a move that could signal a major shift in China’s intellectual property rights climate.

Thai authorities detain a group of would-be North Korean defectors.

Phone, text, and email links to China's restive northwesternmost region remain largely blocked.

The ruling junta is again rounding up critics and activists, but the reasons are unclear.

The writings of an outspoken critic of China’s early Communist policies go to a Western university.

Chinese truckers lose goods to gangs of sword-wielding robbers.

A Chinese student runs into trouble when he refuses to renounce Christianity.

China has a new means of taking aim at rights defenders, legal experts say.