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Chinese parents are banding together to search for children who have been stolen and sold as slave laborers, saying police haven't acted quickly or thoroughly ...

The Burmese people respect their monks more than their government, but some suspect the monks have been infiltrated by informers.

North Korea's leader appears increasingly ill, and time may be running out to find a successor.

China struggles with mine safety cover-ups.

Tyler Chapman returns to Burma and writes, in a new reporter’s notebook, that hopes for reform have been snuffed out by a ruthless crackdown leaving Burmese in ...

Vietnam uses its tough media laws to close a newspaper for allegedly fanning nationalist flames over a territorial dispute with China.

Known for their sidesplitting, irreverent comedy, Burma's Moustache Brothers have found a way around the ban that keeps them from performing in public.

A Muslim minority group unrecognized by Burma's military regime has sparked a diplomatic flurry, as they take to the high seas to escape persecution.

A member of a Muslim ethnic group in China has been sentenced to jail for separatism after informing friends abroad of a local protest.

The anniversary of the death of ousted Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang ushers in a politically sensitive period for Beijing, 20 years after massive protests ...

China unveils an ambitious plan to extend health care to all its citizens, even in the country's poorest and most remote areas.

Violent unrest in Thailand may have a lasting impact on its neighbors and on how Western governments operate in the region.

A day after its rocket launch drew a strong U.N. rebuke, North Korea quits disarmament talks and orders U.N. inspectors to leave the country.

The U.N. Security Council vows to tighten sanctions on North Korea after its latest rocket launch. Will it work?

China launches a national plan to improve the civil, economic, and political rights of its citizens over the next two years.

Experts split on China's role at G-20 meeting.

Laos gets a rare visit from the U.N. chief, who urges the country to address widening gaps between haves and have-nots.

North Korea's rocket launch escalates tensions with South Korea, and the Kaesong border industrial zone feels the pinch.

Was North Korea's missile launch meant to send a message abroad or to address internal issues?

Cambodians don't trust their own legal system, and corruption allegations in a high-profile Khmer Rouge trial don't help.

Cambodians don't trust their own legal system, and corruption allegations in a high-profile Khmer Rouge trial don't help.

A French scholar takes the stand in Cambodia, becoming the first witness in a landmark trial of ex-Khmer Rouge leaders.

A French scholar takes the stand in Cambodia, becoming the first witness in a landmark trial of ex-Khmer Rouge leaders.

A cyber-espionage researcher calls on China to open a probe into attacks he says are being launched from within the country.

Frustration in the U.S. Senate over ineffective sanctions prompts a new look at Burma policy.

Producers of laphet, a ceremonial dish of pickled green tea leaves, say they are scrambling to recall their products after reports of contamination by textile ...

Will major glaciers on the Tibetan plateau be gone by mid-century?

A group of pensioners who suffered after being branded 'rightists' five decades ago asks to be rehabilitated.

Kim Jong Il may not have placed a satellite into orbit, but his missile launch has played well domestically, given him the initiative, and exposed divisions at ...

Security disputes may frustrate U.S.-China climate goals.