BEIJING — The Thai authorities said Tuesday that they were searching for about 120 ethnic Uighurs who fled China and were detained in southern Thailand by the police earlier this year but escaped this month from a shelter there. The escapees, almost all women and children, left the shelter in ...
Stephen Harper's third visit to China has been a success on many fronts, including the signing of commercial deals valued at up to $2.5 billion dollars, opening of four new trade offices, an increase in nuclear cooperation, expansion of a transit without visa program, and an agreement to open a ...
An ethnic minority Muslim Uyghur farmer serving a 10-year sentence for “illegal religious activities” has died in jail in western China’s Xinjiang region amid concerns of torture, his brother said. Yakob Idris, who died on Sept. 23, had been in good health when he was sentenced in May at a mass ...
A series of deadly attacks, allegedly carried out by Uighur extremists, has set China on edge and given an ancient Uighur craft an ominous taint In Yengisar, on the fertile edge of the Taklimakan Desert, people have long believed that placing a knife on their bedside keeps away bad dreams. On a ...
Last week, 489 people from the far western region of Xinjiang got off a government-chartered train in the city of Guangzhou to start factory jobs in southeastern China. Mostly members of ethnic minorities, and in particular the Uighur minority, they are part of a labor export program that has been ...
Pakistan will help China with its fight against Uighur fighters Beijing says are active in its unruly far western region of Xinjiang (East Turkestan), the country's prime minister said on Saturday during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. China blames the East Turkestan Islamic ...
BEIJING — As a winter chill settled across China’s far northwest, 489 people boarded a chartered train in the city of Urumqi for the 50-hour ride to the country’s opposite corner, in semitropical Guangdong Province, to take up new factory jobs. “If I can adapt to life in Guangdong, I would consider ...