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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.

The town of Dandong at the Chinese North Korean border offers a fascinating glimpse into the way two communist nations have taken widely different paths to ...

North Korea said its rocket launch on April 5, 2009 was a success while the US military disputes the reclusive nation's claims it had launched a satellite into ...

By launching its rocket despite international warnings, North Korea makes sure all eyes are on the Stalinist state.

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.