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Phone service for relatives and associates of a jailed blind activist is curtailed before the Paralympics open.

China's 1-trillion-yuan ($147-billion) earthquake recovery plan for Sichuan poses challenges for the country's economy, experts say.

China has already spent billions of dollars on material aid for Sichuan earthquake victims. Now a U.S.-based foundation wants to help survivors through art.

Nearly six months after a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, authorities are releasing some Buddhist monks from detention in Golmud.

Former top Communist Party aide Bao Tong says the processes governing fair play and equal treatment according to the rules of the game will have a big impact ...

Sichuan parents are barred from protesting during a visit by China's prime minister.

Mrs. Lang, 22, agreed to enter an arranged marriage with a wealthy Chinese man in hopes of providing for her impoverished family in Vietnam. But that wasn't ...

Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai.

Unarmed Uyghur police come under attack while searching for suspects in an August clash.

China has ordered a ban on some new coal mines after a series of deadly accidents during preparations for the Olympic Games.

Unusual incident reveals that successful recruiters are rewarded with money and rice.

Americans expelled from China for Olympic protests speak about their fears and loss of control during interrogation

Tibetan schoolchildren, now refugees in India, use art to express their thoughts about their homeland, their families, and China’s Olympics.

According to Beijing police, 149 people filed 77 applications for permits to protest. But, police say, 74 of them were "withdrawn." Two were suspended, and one ...

Gao Wenjuan was alone Aug. 20 at Ritan Park, one of the three designated zones for protesting during the Olympics, although no protests have yet been ...

In an interview with Yahoo! News, South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak pledges to work for Korean reunification. Lee denies that relations between the two ...

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

BEIJING—This is my last day in Beijing. Yesterday I forgot to mention an important point about pirated goods. I didn't find any “official, licensed” Olympics ...

A Communist Party document sets out new curbs on Muslim Uyghurs after a spate of attacks.

A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.

A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.

China's government has put the Olympics ahead of key energy and environmental reforms, experts say. Officials are promising changes after the Games end.

An activist known as a voice for angry young Tibetans is released but his movements are restricted.

Further attacks on security personnel are reported near Kashgar as police in the northwestern region of Xinjiang detain 15 suspects following explosions in the ...

A new film, Fire Under the Snow, sheds light on tensions in Tibet by looking at the life of an elderly Buddhist monk, Palden Gyatso, who survived years of ...

Still reeling from a deadly cyclone, Burmese mark 20 years since the start of a 1988 pro-democracy uprising.

As China pushes its miners to produce more coal and meet power demand for the Olympics, a series of mining accidents has claimed dozens of lives.

Radio Free Asia (RFA) today criticized the Chinese government's apparent denial of an entry visa to an Olympic-credentialed RFA broadcaster and called on the ...

After reported attack, China says safety ranks as the top priority at Olympic Games.

Chinese authorities have sharply increased security in the northwestern Silk Road city of Kashgar after a deadly attack on police.