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From Los Angeles to Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, thousands of Tibetans celebrated their religious leader's 80th birthday.

From his exile in India and in his travels around the world, the Dalai Lama has called for nonviolence, peace, and religious harmony.

The Tibetan spiritual leader meets with top U.S. lawmakers but not with President Obama, who will go to China in November.

Police open fire on striking garment workers at an industrial park in Phnom Penh on Jan. 3, 2014, killing at least four people and injuring dozens. Rights ...

Residents of a workers' apartment building belonging to a state-owned company in southwest China are reeling after their homes were demolished in the middle of ...

Farmers employ heavy doses of fertilizers and pesticides when growing fruit trees. The chemical run-off has helped contaminate the Dong River.

Unregulated Mining Leaves Behind Ravaged, Toxic Landscape.

With an eco-system transformed by uncontrolled mining, locals are first to pay the price of China's race to export rare earth metals.

The stench from a Dong River tributary causes dizziness. Many people won’t eat vegetables grown on its banks.

A river that was once a primary source of drinking water for Hong Kong has become so polluted that it is now nicknamed “Black Dragon River.”

The town of Xintang has earned the title “blue jeans capital.” But local jeans production has come at a huge environmental cost.

Proper water treatment has not kept pace with construction in Shenzhen.

Laos undertakes construction of a controversial 260-megawatt dam on the Mekong River, pledging transparency and benefits to the local population. In March, our ...

The farmers have held several police and officials captive since an April 15 clash over land.

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

Political opposition to the Hun Sen regime in Cambodia registered significant gains in provincial, municipal, and district council elections on May 18. ...

In Cambodia, even a call to protect the environment is perceived as a political threat. Forest activists and NGOs were banned from marching in Phnom Penh on ...

Infographic data on the corruption in the Yunnan Kunming Fanya Nonferrous Metal Exchange, or Fanya, the first exchange platform for non-ferrous metal in China.

In recent weeks residents living in coastal areas or along rivers in Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam have seen heavy rains and storms that left their ...

Cambodian authorities have rejected a request from 20 unions to assemble in Phnom Penh. The unions wanted to celebrate International Labor Day at Freedom Park ...

In spite of U.N. Millennium Goals, many around the world find it difficult to access clean water. Keeping safe from contamination often means long treks with ...

Duke University student Grace Wang tried to mediate between clashing Chinese and Tibetan fellow students in 2008 and paid dearly for it, drawing insults and ...

The number of AIDS deaths in Asia may have stabilized but there are no indications of a decline in the prevalence of the deadly disease.

Smuggling of people has emerged as a serious problem In Vietnam, with most of the victims trafficked to China and other neighboring countries such as Cambodia ...

Despite a large increase in foreign tourists and tourism-generated revenue, Cambodia’s poverty-stricken population is seeing very few of the profits.

Burma was ranked next to worst among 178 countries in corruption in a 2010 report released in October by Transparency International, a Berlin-based monitoring ...

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 ...

More than a month into the demonstrations that have at times paralyzed parts of the city of Hong Kong, signs of support for the students asking for the right ...

Before Oct. 3, the protests were peaceful if somewhat disorganized. But what the protesters lacked in organization they made up for in creativity.

China's Communist Party imposed a new national security law on Hong Kong on June 30th that outlaws acts of "secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion ...