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The 20th anniversary of China's deadly 1989 crackdown brings tight security and quiet calls for an official reckoning with the past.

Broadcaster Tseten Dolkar was presented with the 2009 Burke Distinguished Journalism Award for her coverage of the peaceful protests of Tibetan monks and the ...

A Lao court spares the life a pregnant British woman convicted of drug smuggling.

A former student leader of Beijing's June 4, 1989 pro-democracy movement talks about her vision for China's future.

Former leaders of Beijing's June 4, 1989 pro-democracy movement say newfound prosperity in China has led to complacency among the country's brain trust.

On June 5, 1989 a lone man stood in front of a column of tanks and came to symbolize the Chinese people's resistance to the crackdown at Tiananmen Square. ...

Chinese authorities go on high alert ahead of the 20th anniversary of a crackdown they want the world, and the Chinese people, to forget.

Poor women die in childbirth every day in Cambodia, but who's to blame?

Poor women die in childbirth every day in Cambodia, but who's to blame?

A Catholic leader in Vietnam has joined with critics of a controversial plan to mine for bauxite.

A former teacher who famously splattered paint on Chairman Mao’s portrait at the height of 1989 protests describes a failure of leadership among protesters—and ...

U.S., China face six-month climate deadline.

It's the 20th anniversary of the bloodstained massacre of the students' anti-corruption movement, which is still being covered up to this day.

When the "June 4 incident" shocked the world 20 years ago, I was very young, so I just accepted the authorities' imperious interpretation of what I had seen ...

Vulnerable, impoverished Burmese migrants are easy prey for human traffickers in Malaysia, but activists say U.S. attention to the issue could help bring about ...

Bangladesh prods Burma over its treatment of a Muslim minority group.

A soldier placed an army hat on a child's head, and the child happily saluted the crowd. No one knew what was coming, writes Dan Southerland, as he recalls the ...

The memoir of a Chinese leader comes out in time for the 20th anniversary of the crackdown that coincided with his ouster.

From the death of former Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang—accused of leniency toward China’s young protesters—to the lifting of martial law eight months later, ...

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 ...

Have talks settled a long-running dispute over plans to mine gold at a sacred Tibetan site?

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

Residents of a strategically located village find themselves at odds with troops sent to pressure them into a land deal.

Accusations fly after a protest over alleged graft turns violent.

In this video—never before released publicly—Muriel Southerland remembers life in Beijing during the historic events of May and June 1989.

The U.S. commander in chief makes a blunt appeal to Burma's ruling junta: Let her go.

An aide to China's late ex-premier discusses the legacy Zhao Ziyang left behind, and how it might still change China.

Pyongyang ratchets up tensions as the major powers lash out over its nuclear test.

Tibetan Buddhists regard it as a sacred site. Gold deposits make Ser Ngul Lo valuable in other ways too, and tensions are rising.

They're well cared for, staff say, but ethnic Uyghur children are required to assume Chinese identities in a Xinjiang orphanage.