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In spite of U.N. Millennium Goals, many around the world find it difficult to access clean water. Keeping safe from contamination often means long treks with ...

Duke University student Grace Wang tried to mediate between clashing Chinese and Tibetan fellow students in 2008 and paid dearly for it, drawing insults and ...

The number of AIDS deaths in Asia may have stabilized but there are no indications of a decline in the prevalence of the deadly disease.

Smuggling of people has emerged as a serious problem In Vietnam, with most of the victims trafficked to China and other neighboring countries such as Cambodia ...

Despite a large increase in foreign tourists and tourism-generated revenue, Cambodia’s poverty-stricken population is seeing very few of the profits.

Burma was ranked next to worst among 178 countries in corruption in a 2010 report released in October by Transparency International, a Berlin-based monitoring ...

The World Health Organization raised its flu alert on April 29, signaling a H1N1 virus pandemic is "imminent" as a toddler in the United States became the ...

More than a month into the demonstrations that have at times paralyzed parts of the city of Hong Kong, signs of support for the students asking for the right ...

Before Oct. 3, the protests were peaceful if somewhat disorganized. But what the protesters lacked in organization they made up for in creativity.

China's Communist Party imposed a new national security law on Hong Kong on June 30th that outlaws acts of "secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion ...

More than 500 people were arrested on July 2 in Hong Kong for staging an all-night sit-in at the Central business district after a mass pro-democracy march a ...

A comprehensive guide to human trafficking and modern slavery in China, North Korea, and Southeast Asia

In a moving message to the European Parliament who awarded her husband, Hu Jia, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Zeng Jinyan also paid tribute to ...

Work has begun on the U.S. $6 billion project, but questions linger over who will get the jobs and how much people displaced by the construction will get paid.

In 2011, President Thein Sein’s government persuaded 16 major nonstate armed groups to come together for peace negotiations, but only eight of those groups ...

Wednesday Dec. 12, 2015 marked 40 years since the communist Pathet Lao took control of the country, a former French colony and six-century-old monarchy, and ...

The Tibetan spiritual leader spoke ahead of this year’s Kalachakra empowerment in Bodh Gaya, India, the site of the historical Buddha’s enlightment.

Pro-Democracy Lawmaker Attacked at Hong Kong Airport

Hong Kong's youngest legislator Nathan Law was attacked by anti-independence protesters after flying back from a political forum in Taiwan.

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

Kem Ley is praised as a fearless champion of Cambodians facing corruption and unaccountable government.

Kem Ley, 46, researcher and leader of the advocacy group Khmer for Khmer was shot twice at a gas station in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on July 10, 2016.

Thirty years after the murderous Khmer Rouge were toppled from power, Cambodians will finally see several leaders of the regime brought to justice before an ...

Cambodia is staging a Songkran event in Siem Reap province, best known as the home of the ancient temple complex at Angkor Wat. The April 13-16 event ...

Refugees who fled Myanmar into China after deadly clashes between junta forces and ethnic rebels have begun trickling back across the border, but some say they ...

Gun-toting security forces open fire at a land grab protest in eastern Cambodia.

Military authorities and local villagers burn down several houses and forcefully evict people from their land in Chhloang district, Kratie province. Photos ...

On the evening of Feb. 18, an embankment on the Mekong River in Kandal province’s Preah Prasop commune collapsed suddenly, taking a home and three people with ...