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As the global climate conference opens in Copenhagen, analysts fear China’s carbon target will be hard to verify.

Experts say two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt over the next 40 years. The Mekong team treks to the Mingyong Glacier in northern Yunnan, China, a ...

Cambodian authorities say they won't repatriate a group of asylum-seekers if they could be mistreated.

Cambodian authorities say they won't repatriate a group of asylum-seekers if they could be mistreated.

A steep increase in the value of North Korea’s currency appears aimed at choking off one of the country’s most reliable sources of goods.

Residents angered by plans to build a waste incinerator in southern China demand transparency from project backers.

A film on the impact of China's Three Gorges Dam is recognized in Europe.

Ethnic Uyghurs flee China through Vietnam to seek asylum in Cambodia.

Flowing for the first time through this regional capital in Yunnan province, China, the Lancang provides electricity to neighboring Thailand while an ethnic ...

As the Mekong changes its name and wends through the highlands of Yunnan province, the massive scale of China’s plans to dam the mighty river are readily ...

An exiled Uyghur returns home and finds himself in Chinese custody.

A leading activist flees China to write frankly about AIDS.

An international health agency urges Vietnam to do more for AIDS patients.

Specific groups still face a huge risk of HIV infection as global infection rates slow.

A Chinese rights lawyer is detained for speaking to a university class about online censorship.

China presses into Central Asia with the opening of its first import gas pipeline from Turkmenistan.

A pastor in Shanghai says police mistreated her in custody.

Chinese authorities are keeping a close watch on a writer recently released from prison.

Henan activist Tian Xi is detained.

Relatives demand to know what has happened to one of China's top civil rights lawyers.

An activist holes up in Japan's international airport after being refused re-entry to China by authorities.

Authorities execute two people in northern China for their part in a large-scale tainted milk scandal.

Legislation drafted in the wake of deadly ethnic violence in China's northwest is said to miss the mark.

Prospects for a U.S.-China agreement on climate change are still uncertain.

A jail term handed down to a Chinese activist prompts a clash.

An investigation says bosses at a Chinese mine are responsible for a deadly accident.

Authorities in southern China delay plans to build an incinerator amid protests.

An elite North Korean defector says bribery is just business as usual.

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

A Tibet scholar sees Chinese nationalism fueling Tibetan nationalist feeling as well.