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The British edition of “Typhoon” came out one year ago...It never arrived, though the Royal Mail’s tracking system showed that it had made its way as far as a Beijing shipping depot...Was this a purposeful, pinpoint strike by Chinese censors who figured...
Tags: China, Hong Kong, Muslim Uighurs, United States, Miles Coolidge, Joe Lennox, Beijing, Xinjiang, C.I.A., American, Uyghur people, Han Chinese, Chinese language, Islam in China, Charles Cumming
Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs, released on the weekend after nearly eight years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, spent their first day of freedom on Monday shopping in the Palau capital Koror. They have also pencilled in a day's swimming at the spectacular Rock...
Tags: Palauan, Muslim Uighurs, Guantanamo Bay, Uighurs Released From Gitmo, pacific islands, Pacific Island, islands nation, China, U.S, bay detainees
The convictions bring to 12 the number facing execution over the unrest, after six other defendants were sentenced to death on Monday. Three others were given sentences of life in jail for their role in the July 5 unrest, the state-run Xinhua news agency...
Tags: China, Urumqi, region capital, china sentenced, Muslim Uighurs, death sentenced, Xinhua, death penalty
Taiwanese Interior Minister Jiang Yi-huah said Friday Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer should not be allowed to visit Taiwan. Jiang said Taiwan should not allow Kadeer to enter the country since the Uighur World Congress led by the activist has ties to an...
Tags: Taiwans, Rebiya Kadeer, Communist China, Uighur World Congress, Muslim Uighurs, uighur leader, Tibet, uighur activist, exiled uighur, interior minister, Taiwan, Taipei
Violence and unrest instigated by separatists agitating for an independent Xinjiang have hit economic development hard in the far western Chinese region, a government policy paper said on Monday. Energy-rich Xinjiang, homeland to the Muslim Uighur people...
Tags: Muslim Uighurs, China, Urumqi
South Korea and a city in Taiwan have moved to deny exiled Muslim Uighurs from China's far-west platforms for voicing their cause, apparently bowing to fears that Beijing could use its growing muscle to hit back. Taiwan's second-largest city, Kaohsiung,...
Tags: China, Taiwan, Rebiya Kadeer, Muslim Uighurs, Beijing
Chinese security forces uncovered a bomb-making operation in the volatile western region of Xinjiang, foiling plans to carry out attacks including suicide bombings, police said Wednesday. Forces arrested six suspects and seized large amounts of bomb-making...
Tags: China, western region, Muslim Uighurs, making material, Xinjiang, volatile western, Aksu, explosive devices, Beijing
Cotton pickers wait for the train bound for Urumqi of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at the railway station in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, on Sept. 4, 2009. A special train carrying over 1,700 cotton pickers from Xi'an...
Tags: Urumqi, China, Muslim Uighurs, Han Chinese, xinjiang region, china city, Zhang Hong, syringe attacks, deputy mayor, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
A new round of unrest broke out in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang on Thursday, as protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against a series of reported syringe attacks in the regional capital, witnesses said. A resident said he had...
Tags: China Life Insurance, Protesters Demand China, Han Chinese, Urumqi, Muslim Uighurs, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, needle stabbings, western china, armed police, fresh protesters
Six protesters waited outside the Melbourne Town Hall for the arrival of Ms Kadeer, whose life story is told in the 10 Conditions of Love. The documentary's inclusion in the festival line-up has led to protests from China, and to the hacking of the event's...
Tags: World Uighur Congress, Rebiya Kadeer, Muslim Uighurs, Ms Kadeer, Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne Town Hall, exiled uighur, leaders rebiya, Pro-China, uighur activists