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Hand, foot, and mouth disease is highly contagious and could still spread, officials say.

According to a new directive from provincial police, security cameras are now compulsory in public areas, with fines for noncompliance.

A Lao official rejects concerns over minority Hmong asylum-seekers who are sent back to Laos.

Members of a mostly Muslim ethnic group in China are detained and fined for worshiping outside their own villages.

A dissident Buddhist leader in Vietnam joins opposition to a planned bauxite mine.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have plans to redevelop traditional Uyghur homes in an historic Silk Road city.

Cambodia’s international tribunal for top Khmer Rouge officials hears arguments over whether to move the one defendant who has voiced remorse to a site away ...

Cambodia’s international tribunal for top Khmer Rouge officials hears arguments over whether to move the one defendant who has voiced remorse to a site away ...

Hanoi faces growing calls for a crackdown on the worst polluters and a mandatory switch to cleaner fuels.

Is China's crackdown on 'indecency' aimed at online pornography—or dissent?

The former commandant of an infamous Khmer Rouge torture camp addresses the court and the country.

The former commandant of an infamous Khmer Rouge torture camp addresses the court and the country.

In the run-up to Burma's first elections in 20 years, the junta is urging loyal businessmen to stand as candidates.

U.S. health officials have found lead and arsenic in traditional Burmese medications used by refugee families. Are children back in Burma also affected?

More resistance is reported in Tibet, along with the beating death of a monk.

U.S.-China talks advance cooperation on climate change.

Villagers in China's southern province of Hainan are staging a round-the-clock vigil to protect the bones of their Muslim ancestors in tombs dating back to the ...

Five ex-leaders of the Khmer Rouge go on trial, and Cambodia's youth get a chance to learn the truth about an era kept secret for the last 30 years.

Five ex-leaders of the Khmer Rouge go on trial, and Cambodia's youth get a chance to learn the truth about an era kept secret for the last 30 years.

Defendants sentenced in connection with church land protests vow more appeals.

A Shanghai-based director plans a Broadway-style multimedia musical based on Karl Marx's political tome, 'Das Kapital.'

Campaigners demand Chinese authorities release information on Gao Zhisheng's whereabouts and treatment.

Thirty years after the murderous Khmer Rouge were toppled from power, Cambodians will finally see several leaders of the regime brought to justice before an ...

Korean-American Mike Kim, author of 'Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country,' discusses how and why he put a career in ...

Thailand says a group of ethnic Hmong returned to Laos voluntarily, but a witness says not all were volunteers.

An outspoken economist from a Chinese minority group faces "unbelievable threats and pressure" to keep quiet.

North Korea has stopped receiving U.S. food aid, but a U.S. official says it could re-start immediately.

Tibetan farmers in China's Sichuan province refuse to till their land in protest at Chinese crackdowns.

A leading Burmese labor activist isn't getting the care she needs in prison for a heart ailment.

A subtly subversive online spoof in China prompts an apparent backlash, and netizens are angry.