BEIJING — China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 p...
Henryk Szadziewski | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
Just as Deng made a bold move to take China into an era of economic reform, Hu will have to make a bold move, by talking with dissenters to take China into an era of meaningful political reform.
AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
TOKYO — An exiled Uighur activist blamed by China for deadly ethnic riots demanded Wednesday that Beijing allow an international investigation i...
Alexander Davenport | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
Why do rioting Tibetans generate more interest than rioting Uighurs?
Associated Press | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
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 08.15.2009 | World
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...
Reuters | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has warned its citizens in Algeria about possible attacks from al Qaeda in retribution for a Chinese government crackdown in...
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...
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...
AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN and GILLIAN WONG | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
URUMQI, China — China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving an ethnic breakdown of t...
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...
AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
URUMQI, China — Thousands of Chinese troops flooded into this city Wednesday to separate feuding ethnic groups after three days of communal viol...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
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...
AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
URUMQI, China — Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaged through the stre...
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...
AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.05.2009 | World
BEIJING -- Chinese state media says that 156 people have been killed in violent riots in the country's western Xinjiang region. The official Xinhua N...
AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 07.12.2009 | World
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Palau's president said Thursday that his tiny Pacific nation's tradition of hospitality prompted the decision to take ...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 03.21.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that 17 Turkic Muslims cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay must stay at the prison c...
AP | JAY ALABASTER | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media
TOKYO — Two Japanese journalists were briefly detained and beaten by police in western China, their companies and one of the men said Tuesday, t...
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | World