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Four bombings have occurred in and near Rangoon over the last month.

Parents and lawyers accuse Chinese authorities of hushing up a scandal over tainted milk.

A Burmese mother describes her son's recruitment into the junta's armed forces.

Dozens of dissidents and activists face closed trials in Burma, including a leading monk.

Thailand and Cambodia take steps to ease tensions after a deadly clash.

Thailand and Cambodia take steps to ease tensions after a deadly clash.

A new clash erupts in southern China over the value of farmland slated for development.

China plans tougher safety inspections for milk producers than for coal mines.

Amid fallout over contaminated milk powder, two new scares over possibly tainted medical supplies in China have come to light.

Online comments registered disappointment after the Nobel Prize for peace was awarded to Finland's ex-president, as the wife of jailed AIDS activist and Nobel ...

A U.S. Appeals court temporarily blocks the release of 17 ethnic Uyghurs held for almost seven years at Guantanamo Bay.

Lawyers in China are warned against taking on cases related to a widening scandal over tainted milk.

China's dairy scandal could damage investor confidence in the country's food industry for years, analysts say.

Political obstruction and lack of access to affected areas have blocked U.N. efforts to end recruitment of child soldiers in Burma.

Parents who lost children in the devastating May 12 earthquake in China's southwestern Sichuan province, and others whose homes are unrepaired, are told to ...

At least three Tibetans have been handed jail terms ranging from four to nine years in connection with several explosions in Markham county, Chamdo, during ...

The only leader of Burma's 2007 uprising known to have escaped custody says monks have been singled out for rough treatment.

China's media still labor under tight control, despite promises to loosen up.

China's system of harsh punishments has done little to prevent public safety crimes like the adulteration of infant formula, experts say.

By Dan Southerland, RFA Executive Editor—Tibet's best-known female writer has evolved from a member of China's privileged elite into a forceful critic. Despite ...

Anxious parents flood hospitals, vowing to fight for redress, while lawyers and rights activists warn that domestic media face curbs in reporting on the ...

Fallout from China's tainted milk-powder crisis widens in Tibet.

Veteran opposition party member Win Tin has called for substantive talks with Burma's military regime on the future of his country, after his release from a ...

Muslim Uyghur employees at government departments in China's northwest are being offered free lunches during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Nepal’s Maoists have entered the country’s political mainstream, following a war that killed thousands. But is one-party rule still their ultimate goal?

China's government is trying to ease public anger over infant deaths and kidney failure caused by toxic milk products, experts say, but thousands of children ...

Parents and commentators warn that Chinese officials may try to cover up the true extent of a public health crisis caused by tainted milk formula.

Burmese exile Web sites come under cyber-attack.

Chinese parents are rushing their children for checkups and vowing to fight for compensation, after four infants died and thousands were sickened after ...

A Catholic father in Vietnam asks the Vatican to intervene in a land dispute between the Church and the Hanoi government.