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Guided tours to Tibet are nothing new. But in 1988, Dan Southerland recalls, a foreign correspondent could still break away from his handlers and do real ...

Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, has called on China to allow journalists into Tibet to investigate the recent crackdown on anti-Chinese protests there, ...

China’s growing reliance on the energy wealth of Xinjiang is a major concern for the government in connection with protests in neighboring Tibet, analysts say.

Li Jingfang is the ex-wife of Wuhan-based veteran Chinese dissident Qin Yongmin, who was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in 1998 for subverting state ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet are planning a mass rally of Han Chinese government backers to support the arrival of the Olympic torch in Tibet’s iconic Potala ...

China has begun moving to dampen a wave of mass popular anger among young people, sparked by recent protests during its Olympic torch relay over the recent ...

One person was killed and five critically wounded when police clashed with residents demonstrating against the construction of a mine in China’s southwestern ...

Tyler Chapman spent a week among Burmese refugees and exiles in Thailand in February. He found that few, if any, have found happiness in their flight from ...

The Chinese student who sparked outrage among Chinese nationals who say she sided with Tibetans at a Duke University campus protest says a public apology ...

During a month-long trip to Burma, Tyler Chapman saw how China has extended its grip on Burma’s economy to the point where the Burmese people are fed up.

China is intensifying its crackdown on Tibet after the largest anti-Chinese protests there in almost 50 years. But many monks have refused to fly the Chinese ...

A news researcher for the "New York Times" newspaper and cutting-edge investigative reporter has called for greater press freedom in China following his ...

In the cities and countryside of Burma, Tyler Chapman encountered heart-wrenching scenes of poverty every day of his visit in January and February, 2008.

China’s government is pouring more money into its battle against inflation, but experts say its latest food subsidies are a sign that its policies have already ...

Reporter Tyler Chapman travelled in Burma earlier this year and wrote a series of notebooks. He also took stunning photos of ordinary life in the most remote ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have arrested a leading Tibetan writer, television producer, and performer in the midst of a major crackdown on anti-Chinese ...

North Korea has a well-earned reputation as one of the most tightly closed and rigorously controlled countries on Earth. But when it comes to the privacy of ...

Burmese politician Daw Nan Khin Htwe Myint represents Pa-An township in the country's parliament. She was one of three female university students jailed for ...

Chinese authorities in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang have imposed a curfew after a series of police raids looking for weapons and explosives.

China's economic growth has been the envy of the rest of the world: Measured in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the country is booming. But if Chinese ...

A former head of the Chinese Communist Party's powerful propaganda department has called for reconciliation amid "sharp social contradictions," rejecting ...

China’s government is paying record subsidies to keep fuel costs under control for consumers, but the policy is contributing to shortages and energy waste, ...

With the Olympic torch passing through this prickly city on April 9, thousands of protesters showed up in a bid to follow on Paris and London demonstrations ...

China celebrated the Olympic flame's arrival on Monday but a thick blanket of security highlighted concerns that protests over Tibet, human rights and other ...

Tibetan exiles and a witness in China’s southwestern Sichuan province report further protests in the troubled Kardze region, saying four to five people were ...

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Paramilitary police in China’s southwestern Sichuan province fired on a crowd of Tibetan protesters demanding the release of two detained monks, killing and ...

Dith Pran, the hero of "The Killing Fields," was an interpreter and “fixer” in 1970. It was the first year of the war in Cambodia, a time when many Cambodians ...

In Sittwe, a port city located on the bay of Bengal, Tyler Chapman met with monks and ordinary citizens who openly expressed their frustration with their ...

Authorities in Beijing have sentenced AIDS activist Hu Jia to 3-1/2 years in jail for "incitement to subversion" after he wrote articles online critical of ...