A water conservation project in a remote prefecture of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) begun two decades ago has yet to bring clean drinking water to more than half of the area’s population, according to officials and local residents. According to a joint report by the Water ...
A Uyghur farmer on his way to work in the fields was shot and killed by police in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region this week after he pulled a knife on officers attempting to detain him, sources said. The Feb. 16 shooting in Bashquduqla village of Purchaqchi town in Hotan (In Chinese, ...
A clash in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region killed 17 members of the country's Uyghur minority, including four policemen who were slashed with knives, nine attackers who were shot to death and four people killed by police gunfire, officials and witnesses said. The Feb. 17 incident in Aksu (In ...
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