Story Archive
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
Chinese citizens trying to pursue complaints against the authorities can find themselves committed to psychiatric hospitals and forcibly medicated.
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.
2008-12-10
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.