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Laotian 14-Year-Old Goes to the Olympics

She is the youngest competitor in Laos to go to the games in Rio de Janeiro. One other swimmer, two runners, and a cyclist will be joining her in Brazil for ...

A man jailed for murder says witnesses were forced by police to change their statements confirming his alibi.

Questions remain about how durable Malaysia’s quiet diplomacy will be in the face of an ever more aggressive China.

Mass Protests and Seven Arrests in Hong Kong

Citizens speak out against the crack-down on freedoms in their city during a visit by Zhang Dejiang, a high-ranking official of China’s Communist Party.

A year stint in prison in 2002 left Phuntsok "in very poor health due to torture."

On Monday Oct 10, 2016, Doun Penh district security forces attacked the demonstrators who carried lotus flowers, banged drums, waived the national flag and ...

Cambodian riot police on Monday, March 31, crushed a protest by Beehive Radio supporters demanding a television channel license for the station. Photo: RFA ...

Authorities in Beijing have turned down dozens of groups and individuals with grievances who wish to use the officially sanctioned Olympics “protest parks” in ...

Chinese authorities are assembling a detailed digital profile on each of China’s 1.4 billion citizens.

A U.S State Department report says China fails to meet minimum standards for protecting against human trafficking.

Myanmar students and their supporters stage a sit in on the street in front of the Aung Myay Baik Mann Monastery in Letpadan on March 3, protesting a decision ...

Burma democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 14 of the last 20 years in house arrest. On August 11, she was convicted by a prison court of breaching the ...

Chinese parents are rushing their children for checkups and vowing to fight for compensation, after four infants died and thousands were sickened after ...

Bangkok, Thailand : Thai opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva is elected as the nation's third prime minister in four months, triggering protests from ...

A May 20 declaration of martial law failed to deter protesters, who managed to stop military trucks and speak with troops inside as they headed toward ...

In May 1989, students went on hunger strike to urge the government toward a dialogue. During this time, Muriel Southerland photographed the hunger-striking ...

From mid-April until the end of May 1989, Muriel Southerland went out each day to photograph the student protests at Tiananmen Square. The protests grew into a ...

Nomads describe the ancient practices of water burial and sky burial, threatened by China's policies in Tibet.