News Source: Macleans
| 2 months ago
Tourist arrivals in the volatile western region of Xinjiang have plummeted since July's deadly ethnic rioting, Chinese state media say. Thousands of tour groups have cancelled trips and the number of visitors to the region's main tourist sites has...
News Source: NewKerala
| 2 months ago
So far, police have caught 45 suspects during the syringe scare, of whom 12 remain in police custody...Eight people have been sent to drug rehab, according to Urumqi police authorities. Despite signs of recovery in the city after assaults caused fear...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 2 months ago
There has been a fresh wave of needle attacks in recent days despite heavy security in China's tense Urumqi city, state media reported Wednesday, adding that the number of arrests had grown to 45. Police in the capital of the northwestern Xinjiang...
News Source: The Scotsman
| 2 months ago
Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled millionaire leader of China's Uighur Muslim minority. State media claimed the properties, in the city of Urumqi which has recently seen renewed ethnic violence between Uighurs and ethnic Han Chinese, were being demolished...
News Source: Sify News
| 2 months ago
The head of a western city wracked by communal violence and a bizarre string of needle attacks has been sacked by Chinese authorities hoping to calm uneasy mobs and end protests that left the city on edge for three days. Security was tight Sunday in...