BEIJING — Chinese Muslim militants have been to Taliban-controlled parts of neighboring Pakistan and Afghanistan, but there is scant evidence su...
GlobalPost | Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011
KASHGAR, China -- What's going on in Kashgar? The bulldozers have gone silent and demolition dust settled in Kashgar's Old City district in recent mo...
Amy Reger | Posted 05.25.2011
As President Obama emphasized the benefits of the free flow of information in Shanghai last month, around 20 million citizens of China remained submerged in an ongoing Internet blackout.
AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — China sentenced three more people to death Thursday for murders committed during riots in the far western Xinjiang region in July, bri...
AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011
TOKYO — An exiled Uighur activist blamed by China for deadly ethnic riots demanded Wednesday that Beijing allow an international investigation i...
Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
URUMQI, China (AP) - Mosques opened for worshippers in Urumqi on Friday, but shops nearby were forced to shut as security forces kept a tight grip on ...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
When the local government began recruiting young Muslim Uighurs in this far western region for jobs at the Xuri Toy Factory in the country's booming c...
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011
China's deputy U.N. ambassador has made clear that Beijing, a major trading partner of Burma, would not use its influence to bring about any major change in the isolated southeast Asian nation.
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: ABC News reports that Rebiya Kadeer, the head of the World Uighur Congress who lives in Fairfax, Virginia and was recently blamed by the Chin...
AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011
URUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive...
Ankara | Posted 05.25.2011
MUSLIMS in many nations have condemned China's crackdown in its Xinjiang region where at least 156 people have been killed in unrest over the past wee...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
News of Sunday's riots in Urumqi, the capital of China's far west Xinjiang region spread quickly on the Internet, where users posted amateur photos an...
CFR | Posted 05.25.2011
Introduction The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a territory in western China, accounts for one-sixth of China's land and is home to about...
Alexander Davenport | Posted 05.25.2011
Why do rioting Tibetans generate more interest than rioting Uighurs?
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 10.05.2011