China Protests

China Protests: Al Qaeda Vows Retaliation For Crackdown On Uighurs

Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World


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...

China Protests: Police Kill 2 Uighurs, Wound A Third

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 08.13.2009 | World


URUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive...

China Protests: Muslims Condemn China's Uighur Crackdown

Ankara | Posted 08.10.2009 | World


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...

World In Photos, July 9, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.09.2009 | World


Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

Rebiya Kadeer: The Woman Blamed For China's Uighur Riots

The Washington Post | David Montgomery | Posted 08.09.2009 | World


The translators kept bursting into tears. That was a problem for Rebiya Kadeer, the tiny and fiery matriarch of the Uighur diaspora, who lives in Fair...

World In Photos, July 7, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.07.2009 | World


Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

World In Photos, July 6, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | World


Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

Uighurs And China Explainer

CFR | Posted 08.06.2009 | World


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...

Chinese Police Trained To Handle Recession-Induced Social Unrest

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 03.26.2009 | World


BEIJING — Thousands of Chinese police are being trained to deal with social unrest amid concerns that millions of rural workers who have been la...

Chinese Migrants Home for the Holidays, Perhaps Permanently this Year

Alexander Davenport | Posted 02.07.2009 | World


Alexander Davenport

Faced with unemployment in expensive, unwelcoming urban environments, many migrants are getting an early start to their annual ritual of heading back to their home provinces for New Year.

Chinese Police Prevent Protest By Trapping Workers In Factory

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 01.19.2009 | World


DONGGUAN, China — Laid-off migrant worker Chen Li had red scrape marks on his right cheek from a scuffle with riot police outside his factory th...

China Sentences 2 Elderly Women To Labor Camp For Protest Plans

AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home


BEIJING — Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative s...

China Received 77 Olympic Protest Requests, But Approved None

AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics


BEIJING — Chinese authorities have not approved any of the 77 applications they received from people who wanted to hold protests during the Beij...

Tibet, China Return To Diplomacy

McClatchy | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


Chinese and Tibetan envoys on Tuesday began their first formal talks since bloody protests swept Tibetan areas of western China three months ago, in a...