Story Archive
2009-05-14
A former aide releases the memoirs of China's late premier, shattering an official silence on the June 1989 crackdown.
2009-05-13
Villagers in a land dispute in eastern China clash with police.
2009-05-13
China confirms its fourth case of A/H1N1 flu, including two people who showed symptoms of the virus in Hong Kong.
2009-05-13
It's hard to get kids like my daughter to care about things like this. But I want them to care.
2009-05-12
Workers at a Chinese shoe factory say they are underage, and that officials switched their identification papers to make them seem older.
2009-05-12
Authorities tighten security as bereaved parents try to mark the anniversary of a devastating earthquake.
2009-05-12
A prominent Uyghur economist takes outspoken aim at the Chinese government's handling of his native Xinjiang region.
2009-05-12
Since [the 1989 crackdown], I have found my news from other sources, because it's easier to find out what's really going on that way.
2009-05-11
U.S. officials call for medical access to a Burmese opposition leader who is ill and under house arrest.
2009-05-11
China faces cleaner coal challenges.
2009-05-11
On a perilous ocean journey, starvation leads refugees to the unthinkable to stay alive.
2009-05-11
After the Vietnam War (1959-75), thousands of Vietnamese took to the sea fleeing persecution by the new communist government. Three women, now resettled overseas, describe the horrors of that perilous journey.
2009-05-11
More than 140,000 Vietnamese boat people passed through Hong Kong over a quarter-century, and many are haunted by memories of life in the camps that housed them.
2009-05-09
Five Tibetan monks wanted in China for staging protests at a major monastery reach safety in India.
2009-05-08
In a new twist on land development tensions in China, authorities in Xinjiang are reclaiming orchards farmed by ethnic Uyghurs.