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China's latest lead-poisoning scandal has parents staging angry protests.

A scholarly institute rejects new government orders covering what members can and cannot do.

China scores a tactical victory in its war on Web sites the government doesn't like.

Burmese refugees, including children as young as 10, describe being recruited to work as military porters.

Throughout East Asia, vulnerable children are forced and trafficked into every kind of work.

Chinese authorities detain parents observing the anniversary of a far-reaching milk scandal that sickened their children.

Burmese refugees say more and more youngsters are being press-ganged into working as military porters.

China’s Central Asia gas pipeline project is increasingly at risk amid ethnic unrest in Xinjiang.

Poetry by teenage North Korean defectors, translated into English for the first time.

Nearly two years after Burma's Saffron Revolution, an exiled leader of the monks' movement says their ranks are growing.

A U.S. aid worker gets a rare glimpse of the lives of North Korean refugees living illegally in China.

A dissident leader among Burmese monks tries to uphold his monastic vows in prison.

Internet cafes vow to 'self regulate' in advance of a politically sensitive anniversary.

Two leading bloggers in China report elements of the ethnic strife in Urumqi that haven’t appeared in state-run media.

Two journalists are charged with libel in Cambodia.

Two journalists are charged with libel in Cambodia.

The State Department says it is seeking consular access to a U.S. citizen, missing since landing last week in Burma.

A new flare-up over a Chinese college that isn't what it claimed to be.

The tribunal was created in 2006 to try leading members of the 1975-1979 regime and five former leaders are currently being held on charges of war crimes and ...

A Vietnamese pro-democracy activist vows to keep fighting for reform after his release from prison.

As the Lao president travels to China to seal closer economic ties, neighboring countries worry about Beijing's expanding influence.

The effects of the worldwide recession and recovery may change U.S.-China relations for years, economists say.

Chinese authorities order a major security presence in Xinjiang after deadly protests and a series of needle attacks.

Chinese authorities pledge a hard line in Xinjiang after more deadly strife, but the top Party official there is keeping his job.

Official media aren't trusted in northwest China, so where do people turn for news?

Chinese leaders dismiss Xinjiang officials in a bid to address public anger in Urumqi.

Experts fear worse yet to come in China's northwest.

A U.S.-based leader of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square protests could soon appear in court.

A U.S. citizen, the relative of several jailed democracy activists, is unaccounted for after landing in the former Burmese capital, Rangoon.

Han Chinese protest in China's northwest after a series of stabbings with syringes.