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From Kashgar to Kashi (喀什): The Chinese Remaking of Kashgar

Amy Reger | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: East Turkestan, Kashgar, Demolitions, Development, Uyghurs, Xinjiang, Uyghur, Han Chinese, Uyghurs in Kashgar, Chinese Protest, Kashgar Employment, World News

If the Chinese government is serious about bringing prosperity to all ethnicities in East Turkestan with its new development plans, it needs to work aggressively to end open discrimination in the employment sector for Uyghurs.

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Deadly Riots In China

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Video, Xinjiang Riots, Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China Muslims, China Riots, China, Ap, Uighurs, Xinjiang, World News

BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday accused terrorists in a Muslim Uighur region of attacking civilians, but an exiled Uighur group said the violence ...

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Two Moderate Earthquakes Strike China

AP | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Gansu, Video, Sichuan, Natural Disasters, Natural-Disasters, Earthquakes, Yining, Earthquake, China Earthquakes, US-Geological-Survey, China Earthquake, China, Usgs, Xinjiang, World News

BEIJING — Two moderate earthquakes have shaken China's northwest and southwest regions. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.0 earthqu...

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China Vaccinates 9 Million Amid Polio Outbreak

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: China Polio Outbreak, Polio, Hotan Prefecture, China Polio Vaccination, Polio-Vaccination, China Polio, China, Xinjiang, World News

BEIJING — Chinese health authorities have vaccinated more than 9 million people in a far western region against polio amid an outbreak of the di...

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Beijing Launches 'Strike Hard' Crackdown In Xinjiang

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: China Uighurs, Xinjiang Rebellion, China Uighur Riots, China Xinjiang Crackdown, China Xinjiang Riots, China Terror, China Xinjiang, China, Xinjiang, World News

BEIJING — Chinese security forces have launched a two-month "strike hard" crackdown against violence, terrorism and radical Islam following rene...

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Meet Wang Xing, 'The Cloner'

Forbes | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Chinese Groupon, Fanfou, Groupon Clone, Wang Xing, Renren, Meituan, Twitter Clone, China, Facebook Clone, Xinjiang, Technology News

Wang Xing was 26 years old and already the founder of a failed Chinese takeoff of oncehot Friendster when he cloned Facebook. It was December 2005 in ...

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Human Rights and Globalization-Synergy or Competition?

Derek Henry Flood | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Kosovo, Pakistan, Chechnya, Chechnya Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Guantanamo, Serbia, Globalization, Georgia, John Yoo, Un, Maoism, China, Xinjiang, World News

Human rights are an essential and non-negotiable component of global progress. The increased highlighting of human rights violations is itself a byproduct of globalization.

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Will the Chinese Courts Allow Another Mentally Ill Individual Be Executed?

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Gordon Brown, Death Penalty in the United States, Chinese Criminal Procedure Law, Chinese Criminal Law, Drug Trafficking in China, Supreme People's Court, Death Penalty in China, Death Penalty, China, Xinjiang, Akmal Shaikh, Urumqi, World News

The true test of a society's criminal justice system is how well it protects society's most vulnerable.

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China's Media "Openness" in East Turkestan

Amy Reger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Uighurs, China Uighur Crackdown, East Turkestan, China Uighur Protests, Uyghurs, Xinjiang, Uighurs, World News

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.

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Xinjiang Riots: China Sentences 6 To Death

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uighurs Death Penalty, Xinjiang Riots, China Xinjiang Riots, China Execution, China Executions, Death Penalty, Xinjiang Riots Death Penalty, Xinjiang, China, Uighurs, China Sentences Uighurs, China Updates on Xinjiang Roits, Xinjiang Riot Death Sentence, Death Sentence for China Rioters, World News

BEIJING — A court in China's far western Xinjiang region sentenced six men to death Monday for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic r...

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Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Lebanon, Iran, Hitler, China, History, Muslim, Saudi Arabia, Nato, Vietnam War, John Kennedy, Chechnya, Munich, Analogies, Czechoslovakia, Syria, Xinjiang, West Germany, South Vietnam, Hamas, Soviet Union, Hizbollah, Afghanistan War, Al Quaeda, Kashmir, Shiites, Iraq War, Communism, North VIetnam, Taliban, India, Lyndon Johnson, Cuba, Ospolitik, Detente, World News

The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

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China Executes 2 Tibetans For The Roles In 2008 Riots

AP | By HENRY SANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Monks, Tibetan Minority, Olympics, Tibet, Xinhua, International Campaign for Tibet, Han Chinese, Executions, Human Rights Watch, Han Majority, Buddhist, Executed, Death Penalty, China Riots, Arson, Buddhism, Migrants, Buddhist Monks, China, Xinjiang, Lhasa, World News

BEIJING -- Two people have been put to death for their roles in deadly protests last year in the Chinese-controlled region of Tibet, the first known e...

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Dark Omens for the U.S. in the Gathering Afghan Storm

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Round Table, People?S Liberation Army, Afghanistan, China Daily, Sorrows of Empire, Xinjiang, Aynak Copper Field, Port of Gwadar, Pamir, World News

As Washington's paralysis deepens and Afghanistan slips further into chaos, the U.S. faces a crisis of credibility. A Chinese challenge to the war's legitimacy is of no minor consequence.

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Xinjiang Riots: China Sentences 3 More To Death

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uighur Protests, Xinjiang Riots, China Uighur Protests, Xinjiang Province, China Death Sentence, China, Uighurs, Xinjiang, Uighur Riots, World News

BEIJING — China sentenced three more people to death Thursday for murders committed during riots in the far western Xinjiang region in July, bri...

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10,000 Protest Needle Stabbings In China

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Needle Stabbings, Beijing, Communist Party, Han Chinese, Muslim Uighurs, Aids, Urumqi, Hiv, Hypodermic Needle Stabbings, China, Uighurs, Hypodermic Needle, Xinjiang, World News

URUMQI, China — Security forces patrolled the street corners of Urumqi while residents voiced anger Friday, a day after thousands marched to pro...

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If Only the Uyghurs had Twitter

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebiya Kadeer, Xinjiang Province, Twitter, Urumqi, Uyghurs, Urumqi Riots, China, Xinjiang, Uighurs, Uyghur Human Rights Project, Urumchi, Politics News

It's not that Americans don't care about Uyghurs. They just don't hear about the systematic slaughter of the Uyghur people by the Chinese government.

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Xinjiang Mosques Reopen For Friday Prayers

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 ...

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China Protests: Muslims Condemn China's Uighur Crackdown

Ankara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Uighurs, China Uighur Protests, China Crackdown, Xinjiang Province, Foreign Affairs, Xinjiang Protests, Uighur, China Uighur Crackdown, Xinjiang Terrorism, Uihgur Protests, China Protests, Uighurs, China, Advocacy, Xinjiang, World News

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...

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China Uighurs Protest Coverage Shows Changes In State Media Blocks

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Uighurs, China Internet, Twitter, China Twitter, China Uighur Protests, China Media, Xinjiang Province, Foreign Affairs, China Media Censorship, Uighur, China Internet Access, China Media Internet Censorship, Xinjiang, China, Uighurs, Advocacy, World News

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...

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Fair and Balanced? Lhasa Vs. Urumqi

Alexander Davenport | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Uighurs, China Tibet Crackdown, China-Tibet-Conflict, China Uighur Protests, Tibet Protests, Xinjiang Province, Urumqi, Free Tibet, China Riots, Tibet, China Tibet, China Tibet Uprising, Uighurs, China, Xinjiang, World News

Why do rioting Tibetans generate more interest than rioting Uighurs?

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China Executes Two Uighurs For Pre-Olympics Police Killings

Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Attacks, Foreign Affairs, China Executions, China Olympics, China, Uighurs, Advocacy, Xinjiang Province, Xinjiang Terror Raid, Xinjiang, World News

China executed two men from a Muslim minority group today for killing 17 police officers in an attack in the country's far west that the government po...

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China Kills Five Muslim "Militants" In Olympic Anti-Terror Raid

Guardian | Matthew Weaver | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Beijing, Xinjiang Province, Xinjiang Terror Raid, Xinjiang Terrorism, China Anti-Terrorism, China, Xinjiang, Uyghurs, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Politics News

Chinese authorities today claimed they had foiled an attempt to sabotage next month's Beijing Olympics as they confirmed the shooting dead of five all...

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