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Uyghur exiles assail Pakistan's decision to send a group of ethnic Uyghurs back to China, while a militant group says it has no ties with the men.

In the second installment of an interview, a Burmese migrant describes abuses suffered by himself and other Burmese at the hands of a human trafficking gang.

Stalinist North Korea slaps new curbs on farmers' markets, and on women traders trying to supplement family incomes.

Citizens frustrated by official corruption have a new weapon on their side: the Web.

Will Germany’s exiled Uyghur community take in some of the Uyghur men held at Guantanamo Bay for the last seven years?

A Mexican jet has landed in Hong Kong to retrieve Mexican nationals held in quarantine for H1N1 virus.

China’s economic presence in Burma is growing fast, filling in where sanctions have forced the United States and its allies out.

A Nigerian-born British woman, now facing a possible death sentence in Laos for alleged drug-smuggling, has been held for months.

Experts debate U.S.-China strategic ties.

Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch denies killing several inmates with his own hands at his landmark international tribunal in Phnom Penh.

Thousands of children go missing in China every year, and parents say officials have so far done little to help recover them.

The World Health Organization raised its flu alert on April 29, signaling a H1N1 virus pandemic is "imminent" as a toddler in the United States became the ...

A year after Cyclone Nargis tore through Burma, untold thousands of victims are still homeless and grieving.

Workers have staged demonstrations for money they say their factory owes them, vowing to take their protest to Beijing.

Nowadays, we can’t read about anything that is really going on with our country in the official media. Baffled and bemused, we turn to the foreign media.

China has yet to produce an opposition leader who can be to China what Nelson Mandela was to South Africa, Lech Walesa was to Poland, Kim Dae Jung was to South ...

The elders of the Chinese Communist Party […] hold all the guns. To them, the shouts of the students were nothing more than the wailing of infants, easily ...

The battleship that is June 4 is steaming farther and farther away from us, but it has inflicted a wound on our people that is very hard to erase. I only ...

Tensions escalate as North Korea threatens to conduct a new nuclear test.

Will two U.S. journalists arrested on the Chinese-North Korean border soon face trial?

A Burmese man describes how he was forced to beat other illegal workers by a Malaysian trafficking gang to buy his own freedom.

A rights group calls on China to crack down on the sale of women who leave isolated, Stalinist North Korea in search of a better life.

Vietnam’s most powerful ruling body approves a controversial mining plan amid increased concern over its potential environmental and social impacts.

When they handed out the textbooks in contemporary Chinese history, I flipped eagerly to the relevant sections. I was astonished and disappointed to find the ...

U.S. moves to end climate change standoff with China.

A new report prompts Malaysia to investigate persistent allegations that Burmese migrants have suffered gravely, while traffickers act with impunity.

The Burmese junta tortures 'a lot' of its critics, says a senior U.N. official, who also says he expects human rights monitoring to increase.

As the 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown approaches, Chinese netizens find ways to work around government censorship.

Comments by a Beijing professor enrage petitioners, who descend on his office and prompt a police crackdown.

Laos is taking steps to address chronic and widespread malnutrition among its youngest citizens.