Story Archive
2008-12-13
A woman who has endured the hardship of caring for several jailed relatives talks about life as the member of an activist family.
2008-12-13
Recent detentions, interrogations, and searches of Chinese intellectuals who signed a document calling for widespread political change pose a challenge to China's Constitution, a former top Communist Party aide has said.
2008-12-11
Local groups see no progress this year in human rights in Cambodia.
2008-12-11
Local groups see no progress this year in human rights in Cambodia.
2008-12-11
Authorities at a top university in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao are talking to police after the alleged beating of five ethnic minority Uyghur students.
2008-12-11
Chinese citizens trying to pursue complaints against the authorities can find themselves committed to psychiatric hospitals and forcibly medicated.
2008-12-10
At an international meeting, supporters of Tibet see shrinking space for talks with China.
2008-12-10
Chinese police move against key dissidents who signed an open charter calling for reform on the eve of World Human Rights Day.
2008-12-10
On the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, overseas human rights groups call for change in Laos.
2008-12-09
With blogging on the rise in Vietnam, authorities plan tighter curbs and tougher monitoring.
2008-12-09
President Hu Jintao has warned workers and party leaders that tough times lie ahead.
2008-12-09
South Korea warns of damaged ties with North Korea if activists persist in launching propaganda leaflets across the border.
2008-12-08
A petitioner in eastern China says she will pursue more inquiries into the killing of her father in 2007 after he tried to probe suspected corruption.
2008-12-05
A North Korean move to shut down the jointly operated Kaesong Industrial Complex could gravely harm the country’s fragile economy.
2008-12-03
China’s Health Ministry says many more children were sickened by melamine-tainted milk products than previously reported.
2008-12-03
A disabled man from China's northwest is detained as a national security threat.
2008-12-02
Police remove a petitioning AIDS activist from Beijing just after World AIDS Day.
2008-12-02
Internet cafes in China are forced to switch to a Chinese-made operating system, with steep licensing fees.
2008-12-02
China's growing financial power draws scrutiny as U.S. economic costs rise.
2008-12-01
Read extracts in English from Shin Dong Hyuk's unprecedented memoir of growing up in one of North Korea's most brutal prison camps.
2008-12-01
China's leaders shake hands with AIDS patients on World AIDS Day, but activists say harassment and discrimination remain commonplace.
2008-11-30
A North Korean who escaped from one of the Stalinist regime's total-control prison camps wants the world to read his memoir.
2008-11-26
A brutal assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.
2008-11-26
A brutal assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.
2008-11-26
Dharamsala has a "magical" feel, but Tibetan residents hold painful memories of prison in their former homeland.
2008-11-26
Concerns are raised over the execution of a jobless man who killed six police officers in Shanghai after a failed bid to complain about being beaten in custody.
2008-11-26
Authorities in Xingping, in China's northern Shaanxi province, have launched a major campaign to evict villagers from their homes to make way for the expansion of a chemical plant.
2008-11-25
China's urbanization is a major cause of climate change, the
International Energy Agency says.
2008-11-25
On Nov. 11, Min Ko Naing and eight other "88 Generation Students Group" leaders were sentenced to 65-year terms of imprisonment.
2008-11-25
Tibetan exile government offers China a “final chance” at talks. Many younger Tibetans call Middle Way policy a failure.
