https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88XqrFrN5g The South China Sea sits about 5,000 kilometres from Australia. That puts us in the firing line of a war between the United States and China. If a major global conflict erupted many observers believe it will happen right there in Australia’s ...
China will invest a record $29.2 billion (200 billion yuan) into new highways in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, state media announced Tuesday. The massive investment is part of the government’s strategy to expand trade routes westward as well as quell ethnic unrest among the indigenous ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer has accepted the invitation to visit Taiwan on March, a pro-Taiwan independence opposition party said on Tuesday, urging the government to approve her visa application. The move is tipped to put the Democratic Progressive Party government in a ...
Taipei, Jan. 24 (CNA) A minor political party in Taiwan has invited World Uighur Congress President Rabiye Qadir to visit the island in March, plunging Taiwanese authorities into a quandary as to whether to issue a visa to her. Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), a pro-independence political party ...
FOR centuries, acts of terror have been employed to instill fear in the populace, however today the world is witnessing an unprecedented amount of attacks. Most of the terrorist attacks striking European capitals are a result of marginalised communities challenging the status quo, only indirectly ...
Despite recent politically driven violence, community say Kyrgyzstan is their home now and they want to move on. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - Remote and landlocked, Kyrgyzstan is framed by the Tian Shan mountains that take up nearly 90 percent of the country's territory and form its border with China's ...
The gunman behind the New Year’s Day massacre at an Istanbul nightclub is likely an ethnic Uyghur, a senior Turkish official says. Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said on January 5 that the gunman, who remains at large, was probably Uyghur but he could not say for sure. Kaynak also said ...
Ethnic Uyghur government workers in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region are being ordered to remove the word “Islam” from a box indicating religious affiliation on their household registration forms, in a move aimed at further reducing cultural identity in the volatile region, sources say. An ...