Story Archive
2008-09-18
Chinese parents are rushing their babies for health checks and vowing to sue amid a spreading scandal over tainted baby formula.
2008-09-18
Police are using checkpoints, interrogation, and threats to quash protests in Vietnam.
2008-09-18
Chinese authorities detain a Tibetan television journalist in Sichuan, citing "political" material on his computer.
2008-09-17
China's overloaded trucks and railways are adding to energy consumption, pollution and waste, experts say.
2008-09-16
Burma arrests a longtime activist, who now faces new risks in prison.
2008-09-15
Rumors are swirling over the reported ill health of the North Korean leader, but who would succeed him if they prove true is a mystery.
2008-09-13
Authorities in the Chinese capital have seen a surge in applications to stage demonstrations in Beijing's "protest parks," after a top official sparked hopes that applications might lead to the redress of long-running grievances.
2008-09-12
A Burmese court hands down sentences to 10 men in connection with last year's uprising, amid stepped-up security.
2008-09-12
Employees and management face off at a Coca-Cola joint-venture bottling plant in southern China, as the country's official trade union begins to flex its muscles for the first time in decades.
2008-09-12
Deadly mining accidents in China have claimed at least 223 lives in the past week, despite government claims that safety has improved.
2008-09-10
Ever hear the one about the communist kittens? The fish who escaped being eaten? Adam and Eve in the Workers' Paradise? These North Korean political jokes hint broadly at the grit and tenacity of citizens living under the world's last surviving Stalinist government.
2008-09-10
British-born Chinese author Helen Tse speaks about her book, Sweet Mandarin, in which she documents a family history of three generations of strong women, rising and falling fortunes—and food.
2008-09-08
An official radio station in Xinjiang sacks an outspoken employee, who is now detained.
2008-09-06
After the worst violence there in a decade, officials in China's northwesternmost region tighten curbs on the observance of Ramadan.
2008-09-06
Vietnamese Catholics get high-level support for protests calling on the government to return expropriated Church land.