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Burmese groups condemn the lack of health care for political prisoners after the wife of a young activist suffers a miscarriage in jail.

Censors in China quickly halted state television's live broadcast of Barak Obama speech on January 21st local time when they heard references to communism and ...

A proposed plan to increase China's mandatory retirement age for women has led to a fierce debate in the rapidly aging country.

Tibetans and police report a protest and an explosion in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

China's oil fund plan reflects policy confusion, energy experts say.

A boycott is planned for Tibetan New Year celebrations as tensions build in the lead-up to the anniversary of two crushed movements against Chinese rule in the ...

Veteran journalist James Fallows is at his best when explaining complicated international transactions in plain language. Fallows, who has been writing from ...

A Burmese labor activist in Malaysia describes how he was kidnapped and intimidated for speaking out against human trafficking.

China's pollution will rise during the country's economic downturn, analysts say.

Courts in China have been instructed to reject appeals or complaints lodged against the authorities by members of unofficial "house churches," according to a ...

Suicide is a leading cause of death for Chinese women, and China is the only country in which the suicide rate for females is higher than for males.

Chinese authorities say they have closed down 91 Web sites, targeting big-name search engines in the latest clampdown on "vulgar content."

Tibetan residents of China's Sichuan province protest Chinese rule even as authorities target opposition.

In the latest in a string of detentions across China, three Beijing-based lawyers are taken in for questioning after they sign a document online calling for ...

More North Koreans are gaining access to foreign media broadcasts despite official crackdowns.

Hundreds of ordinary Chinese with complaints against government officials are beginning protests against local branches of the People's Congress, or ...

Authorities in Beijing ban poultry from entering the capital from elsewhere in China following the death of a Fujian woman from the H5N1 avian influenza virus.

China's dependence on foreign oil reaches 50-percent mark for first time.

China's Communist Party drives the country's 1.3 billion people with scant regard for their welfare, and the country's nascent civil rights movement holds the ...

An American academic couple abandons a visit to Burma because one of them is blacklisted.

Bao Tong, a former top Communist Party official, says China's political system has a disastrous lack of checks and balances, calling it a terrifying juggernaut.

Cambodia's highest court orders a retrial in the 2004 killing of a top labor leader.

Cambodia's highest court orders a retrial in the 2004 killing of a top labor leader.

Parents of children killed in the Sichuan earthquake are detained to prevent petitions during a visit by China’s president.

China's naval mission to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden draws mixed reactions from U.S. experts.

Far from steering China through 30 years of economic reform toward an economic miracle, a former top official says the Communist Party has greatly damaged the ...

China plans a new press campaign to strengthen the Communist Party's image in the coming year, while writings on Taiwan and other 'sensitive' topics will ...

A former top Communist Party official looks back on a "uniquely lively" Party plenum, but says the real forces for change lay elsewhere. Part 2 in a series to ...

Deng Xiaoping saw himself as a man set apart from the common herd, and his only aim was to save the Chinese Communist Party, according to a former top official.

Former top Communist Party official Bao Tong examines the reasons behind the Communist Party's move toward economic reform, begun 30 years ago this month.