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An essay in six parts on the legacy of China's ousted late premier Zhao Ziyang by a top aide who knew him well.

Maritime tensions are likely to be a priority issue for the next U.S. ambassador to China.

Parents of missing children in China call for a more thorough investigation as the number of kidnappings grows.

The sole aid group caring for Lao Hmong asylum-seekers in a Thai camp pulls out, citing pressure from a military that wants them repatriated.

After an international outcry, Burma's ruling generals let diplomats and a handful of reporters into a high-profile trial.

Vietnamese MPs are to debate a planned mine involving a Chinese firm, as controversy flares over a joint trade promotion Web site.

Two men jailed for a high-profile act of vandalism in 1989 get U.S. asylum and treatment for trauma suffered in prison.

The trial has begun for a pro-democracy leader in Burma accused of violating the terms of her house arrest, amid calls for her release by local activists and ...

More than a year after a major Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, two more Tibetan monks escape arrest and reach India.

China-Russia oil deal seen unlikely to mend ties.

The Deputy editor of a Vietnamese tourism publication is fired from his job after the government accuses him of writing what they call ‘sensitive’ articles.

Women belonging to an ethnic minority in northwestern China defend their land in a clash with officials who try to seize it for forced crop production.

From mid-April until the end of May 1989, Muriel Southerland went out each day to photograph the student protests at Tiananmen Square. The protests grew into a ...

Burma's opposition leader, on trial for breaking the terms of her house arrest, has denied any wrongdoing, amid an international outcry over her prosecution.

Pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be tried May 18 by the Burmese military junta for breaching the terms of her house arrest in an incident ...

A former aide releases the memoirs of China's late premier, shattering an official silence on the June 1989 crackdown.

Villagers in a land dispute in eastern China clash with police.

China confirms its fourth case of A/H1N1 flu, including two people who showed symptoms of the virus in Hong Kong.

It's hard to get kids like my daughter to care about things like this. But I want them to care.

Workers at a Chinese shoe factory say they are underage, and that officials switched their identification papers to make them seem older.

Authorities tighten security as bereaved parents try to mark the anniversary of a devastating earthquake.

A prominent Uyghur economist takes outspoken aim at the Chinese government's handling of his native Xinjiang region.

Since [the 1989 crackdown], I have found my news from other sources, because it's easier to find out what's really going on that way.

U.S. officials call for medical access to a Burmese opposition leader who is ill and under house arrest.

China faces cleaner coal challenges.

On a perilous ocean journey, starvation leads refugees to the unthinkable to stay alive.

After the Vietnam War (1959-75), thousands of Vietnamese took to the sea fleeing persecution by the new communist government. Three women, now resettled ...

More than 140,000 Vietnamese boat people passed through Hong Kong over a quarter-century, and many are haunted by memories of life in the camps that housed ...

Five Tibetan monks wanted in China for staging protests at a major monastery reach safety in India.

In a new twist on land development tensions in China, authorities in Xinjiang are reclaiming orchards farmed by ethnic Uyghurs.