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Economic hardship is pushing young Cambodian girls into the sex trade while legislation drives the trade underground.

Chinese petitioners with complaints against the government are detained outside the Beijing residence of Premier Wen Jiabao.

Chinese authorities have put one writer under house arrest and restricted the freedom of another amid continuing police investigations into Charter 08, a ...

Chinese authorities question thousands in a campaign that rights activists say is focused on finding participants in last year's Lhasa unrest.

The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died in police custody has demanded an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death, as China's petitioners ...

Chinese protest "propaganda" in traditional television gala as others head overseas in spite of months of bad news for the economy. In Vietnam, a province ...

How do people in China see the new U.S. administration?

North Korea's thriving black-market economy now includes real estate.

A censored version of U.S. President Barack Obama’s inaugural address leaves Chinese viewers puzzled.

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.