The Associated Press Monday, June 21, 2010; 12:00 AM BEIJING -- Police came looking for Vali days after bloody ethnic riots broke out in the far west last year, saying they had video footage of him among fleeing protesters and later shouting at an officer. The 22-year-old man was not home, and ...
Authorities in China detain suspects in the latest in a string of violent attacks on ethnic Uyghurs. Photo provided by a listener. Kaynam Jappar, one of several Uyghurs recently attacked, shown in a Jan. 6, 2005 photo. HONG KONG—Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have detained ...
Phone, text, and email links to China's restive northwesternmost region remain largely blocked. AFP Uyghurs at an Internet cafe in Urumqi, capital of China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 1, 2008. HONG KONG—Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Uyghurs are ...
TAIPEI — Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has accepted an invitation to visit Taiwan, supporters said on Wednesday in a development handing the island's China-friendly government a political dilemma. If the Taiwan authorities grant a visa to Kadeer, they are likely to infuriate Beijing, which says ...
Most analyses of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership focus either on Russian arms sales to China or on the joint military exercises conducted by Moscow and Beijing under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which limits the scope of the analytical framework to a ...
Hundreds of Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Thursday to mourn those who died in violent clashes in the neighbouring Xinjiang region of China last month and to call for its independence. Kazakhstan is home to the largest Uighur community outside China. About 500 people, many ...