Story Archive
2008-08-20
In an interview with Yahoo! News, South Korea's President Lee Myung-Bak pledges to work for Korean reunification. Lee denies that relations between the two Koreas have taken a step back, though he acknowledges difficulties for the moment.
2008-08-18
Authorities in Beijing have turned down dozens of groups and individuals with grievances who wish to use the officially sanctioned Olympics “protest parks” in the capital, activists and police said.
2008-08-15
BEIJING—This is my last day in Beijing. Yesterday I forgot to mention an important point about pirated goods. I didn't find any “official, licensed” Olympics items or authorized Olympics Adidas sports products among the pirated products in the Silk Market.
2008-08-14
A Communist Party document sets out new curbs on Muslim Uyghurs after a spate of attacks.
2008-08-14
A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.
2008-08-14
A Khmer-American woman launches a new quest to find a sister who disappeared in Cambodia 33 years ago.
2008-08-13
China's government has put the Olympics ahead of key energy and environmental reforms, experts say. Officials are promising changes after the Games end.
2008-08-13
An activist known as a voice for angry young Tibetans is released but his movements are restricted.
2008-08-12
Further attacks on security personnel are reported near Kashgar as police in the northwestern region of Xinjiang detain 15 suspects following explosions in the far west of the region last week.
2008-08-11
A new film, Fire Under the Snow, sheds light on tensions in Tibet by looking at the life of an elderly Buddhist monk, Palden Gyatso, who survived years of torture and abuse in Chinese prisons.
2008-08-08
Still reeling from a deadly cyclone, Burmese mark 20 years since the start of a 1988 pro-democracy uprising.
2008-08-07
As China pushes its miners to produce more coal and meet power demand for the Olympics, a series of mining accidents has claimed dozens of lives.
2008-08-07
Radio Free Asia (RFA) today criticized the Chinese government's apparent denial of an entry visa to an Olympic-credentialed RFA broadcaster and called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to press Beijing to honor its pledge to hold the Games in an atmosphere of openness.
2008-08-06
After reported attack, China says safety ranks as the top priority at Olympic Games.
2008-08-06
Chinese authorities have sharply increased security in the northwestern Silk Road city of Kashgar after a deadly attack on police.