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In northeastern Burma’s Shan state, our Mekong team speaks with the Lahu minority people about being forced into difficult, often deadly service to the Burmese ...

Coercion, graft, and underage recruits: Former soldiers describe widespread abuses.

Months after the United States tightened sanctions on Burmese gems, the trade in Bangkok is still brisk.

A precarious calm has been restored to the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as the U.S. and Europe call for restraint.

For 130 youths, circus school offers a first rung on the ladder up and out of poverty and exploitation.

Flowing for the first time through this regional capital in Yunnan province, China, the Lancang provides electricity to neighboring Thailand while an ethnic ...

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 ...

An activist holes up in Japan's international airport after being refused re-entry to China by authorities.

Ethnic Karen refugees of violent clashes between the Burmese military and separatist forces describe their dangerous journey across the border to Thailand and ...

The Mekong Basin is home to 100 languages and 70 million of the world’s poorest people, for whom any ecological change—man-made or natural—could drastically ...

Thousands of riot police patrol the streets of Urumqi a day after protests there ended in deadly riots. Reports describe police firing into the crowds in ...

Upstream Dams Cause Downstream Concerns: Chinese dams on the Upper Mekong River are creating erratic fluctuations on water flow. Yet, people living off the ...

The ancestral lifestyle of the Khampa nomads in Tibet is threatened by a forced modernization.

The Mekong Delta has traditionally served as a nexus of commerce to the people of southern Vietnam, but development is threatening the livelihood of area ...

Seasonal rice harvests in the Mekong River Delta are threatened by the rise of sea tides due to climate change.

At the mouth of the Mekong River, climate change is affecting the livelihoods of both those who fish the river and those who fish the sea.

U.S. student Otto Warmbier died Monday, days after he was sent home in a coma from prison in North Korea. In a posting on Twitter, U.S. President Donald Trump ...

The break in the penstock isn’t the first, raising questions about the dam’s construction.

This week’s meeting in Pyongyang is the fifth between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. It’s the first to take place in North ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, visiting Hong Kong to mark 20 years of rule by China, was met on arrival in the former British colony on June 29 with calls to ...

In a battle of letters that unfolded at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this month, 22 countries formally condemned China's mass detention of some 1.5 ...

Authorities in western China’s Sichuan province have forced nearly 3,500 monks and nuns from the Yachen Gar Tibetan Buddhist Center.

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government has jailed or threatened with prosecution scores of members of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP).

The Myanmar government army has been attacked by the Shan State Progressive Party (SSPP) and its militant arm, the Shan State Army-North.

According to Beijing police, 149 people filed 77 applications for permits to protest. But, police say, 74 of them were "withdrawn." Two were suspended, and one ...

Laos has built a Chinatown market in Bokeo province near the lawless Golden Triangle in a bid to draw more trade and tourism to an area that already hosts a ...

Burma's military leaders pillage the nation's resources for profit, while many ordinary citizens live in poverty.