The memoir of a former head of the Chinese Communist Party who spoke out against 1989 brutality in Tiananmen, entitled 'Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang', will be released next week, four years after his death.

Economic woes have caused a Maoist revival for little red books and iron rice bowl jobs.

China flexed its economic muscle this week at the BOAO Forum for Asia, calling on global monetary diversification and pumping $10 billion into a China-ASEAN infrastructure investment fund. Some Chinese officials claim the economy has "touched bottom" and predict growth to reach 7 percent this quarter (Zheng Xinli), but in ...

According to a recent poll by GlobeScan and University of Maryland, views that China's global influence is negative have risen, for the most part. China's view of itself has risen to 92% positive of it's role abroad. In France 70% polled had negative views on the rising power, while Italy ...

North Korea's recently overtly belligerent behavior, including plans for a space launch, demonstrates increasing desperation according to analysts.

Women's health conference quotes study that 27.3 percent of women their 20s have abortions in China, indicating a lack of sex education.

Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) to give unified statement against trade protectionism at a summit next week, and will discuss details of a regional foreign reserve fund pool. Finance ministers in the Asia region are holding bilateral talks in the lead up, showing strategic cooperation to prevent trade protectionism.

Pyongyang's mouthpiece Korean Central News Agency has resolutely declared it's election system "fair and free" based on a secret voting system that reflects a perfect model of "socialist democracy".  According to KCNA, the secret vote allows voters to freely express their will without being subjected to "surveillance or threats ...

Seventy-five percent of 250 senior clerics polled in Jakarta condemn the practice of suicide bombing in jihad or 'holy war'. The survey, conducted by Jakarta's Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, also discovered 78 percent of these clerics believe democracy is the best form of government for Indonesia, which ...