700 CHINA-EUROPE FREIGHT TRAINS TO DEPART XINJIANG IN 2017

Freight train X9091 waits for transportation to Almaty of Kazakhstan, in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Oct 19, 2017... READ MORE›

700 CHINA-EUROPE FREIGHT TRAINS TO DEPART XINJIANG IN 2017[1]

A total of 700 China-Europe freight trains are expected to depart from Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, by the end of 2017, the regional logistic center said Thursday... READ MORE›

GAS TRUCKS BOOM IN CHINA AS GOVERNMENT CURBS DIESEL IN WAR ON SMOG

Pictures show customers with their new liquefied natural gas LNG trucks at a heavy-duty truck shop in Yutian county, China's Hebei province September 29, 2017... READ MORE›

COULD GREAT WALL OF IRON BECOME NEW SILK ROADBLOCK?

The Daesh video signals the formal excommunication of the Turkestan Islamic Party TIP, which is essentially al-Qaeda in Xinjiang... READ MORE›

CHINA: XINJIANG RESIDENTS TOLD TO TURN IN PASSPORTS

A Xinjiang official told the Global Times that the new policy tightening was intended to maintain social order in the region... READ MORE›

ISIL VIDEO THREATENS CHINA WITH 'RIVERS OF BLOODSHED'

China has for years blamed exiled Uighur separatists for a series of violent attacks in its western Xinjiang region... READ MORE›

WORLD'S BIGGEST BUILDING PROJECT AIMS TO MAKE CHINA GREAT AGAIN

China's greatest strengths are financial - it has enormous economic muscle - and building infrastructure... READ MORE›

NINE HURT IN CHINA STATION ATTACK

It comes just a day after China began its annual parliamentary session in Beijing... READ MORE›

XINJIANG SEETHES UNDER CHINESE CRACKDOWN

KASHGAR, China -- Families sundered by a wave of detentions... READ MORE›

DODGING CHINESE POLICE IN KASHGAR, A SILK ROAD OASIS TOWN

The greatest outburst took place in 2009, when ethnic rioting in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, the autonomous region where Kashgar is located, resulted in about 200 deaths... READ MORE›

IN CHINA'S FAR WEST THE 'PERFECT POLICE STATE' IS EMERGING

Zenz said the recruitment of security staff in Xinjiang had gone absolutely through the roof under Chen's rule... READ MORE›

THAILAND BLAMES UIGHUR MILITANTS FOR BOMBING AT BANGKOK SHRINE

But Thailand has made it clear that the Uighurs were repatriated at China's request, a decision Thailand seems unlikely to repeat anytime soon... READ MORE›

PHOTOGRAPHER S INCREDIBLE SELFIE FROM BURJ KHALIFA SHOWS WORLD AT HIS FEET

Several said they were simply told to show up Tuesday at the same courthouse in Xinjiang's regional capital, Urumqi, where Mr. Tohti was convicted in a closed trial... READ MORE›

A VOICE FROM CHINAS UIGHUR HOMELAND REPORTING FROM THE UNITED STATES

According to R.F.A., the police have told Mr. Hoshur's relatives that his brothers will be released only if he stops reporting on Xinjiang... READ MORE›

CHINA FORCES MUSLIMS TO INSTALL ANTI-TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE APP ON PHONES

Mashable reported last year that Xinjiang authorities began cutting the phone service to members of the Uyghur Muslim population who used foreign messaging apps... READ MORE›

CHINESE COURT JAILS SEVEN STUDENTS OF UIGHUR SCHOLAR ILHAM TOHTI

Prosecutors said Tohti had bewitched and coerced young ethnic students on the Uighurbiz... READ MORE›

'A BRIGHTER FUTURE BECKONS': CHINA TRIES TO GET XINJIANG TO JOIN THE PARTY

By pumping huge resources into Xinjiang it was possible Beijing had achieved an uneasy short-term stability, he said... READ MORE›

CHINESE CALENDARS' DAYS ARE NUMBERED

Zhang Shuqin, 65, of Beijing keeps several old edition calendars, including some showing Mao, foreign scenery and movie stars... READ MORE›

FACEBOOK BUILDS CENSORSHIP TOOL TO ATTAIN CHINA RE-ENTRY

There is no indication Facebook has offered the software to the authorities in China, the Times said... READ MORE›

RECENT PLANE HIJACKINGS AROUND THE WORLD

Two hijackers seized control of a Libyan domestic flight Friday and diverted the Afriqiyah Airways plane to Malta before surrendering. All 118 people aboard left safely... READ MORE›

'BIG DADDY XI' ATTEMPTS TO CHARM US BUT TOUGH CROWDS STILL AWAIT

US-China relations at a low point and as Chinas President Xi Jinpings leadership has come under scrutiny, observers warn of lukewarm response in Washington... READ MORE›

GEORGE OSBORNE'S FAWNING IN CHINA WILL DO LITTLE TO SAVE REDCAR

But now the boom is over, and China's substantially state owned steel behemoths are still producing as if preparing for World War Three... READ MORE›

VANILLA ICE CHARGED WITH BURGLARY

Violence between Uighurs and Han in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, in July 2009 killed nearly 200 people... READ MORE›

CHINA LAUNCHES WORLD'S FIRST 'HACK-PROOF' QUANTUM COMMUNICATION SATELLITE

The Quantum Experiments at Space Scale satellite is on a two-year mission to establish hack-proof quantum communications between space and Earth... READ MORE›

LOSSES WIDEN IN CHINA'S HOT SPOT REAL ESTATE MARKETS

Beijing prices fell 0.1 percent, Shanghai and Chengdu down 0.2 percent, and Shenzhen slipped 0.4 percent ... READ MORE›

CHINA BANS 'MUHAMMAD,' 'JIHAD' AS BABY NAMES IN MUSLIM REGION

To combat what officials describe as extremism in Xinjiang, the Chinese government has put in place a series of restrictions in recent years... READ MORE›

#GOBIFOUND! AUSTRALIAN RUNNER FINDS THE DOG THAT FOLLOWED HIM ON AN ULTRAMARATHON IN CHINA

Dion Leonard fell in love with the dog, named her Gobi and planned to bring her back to his home in Edinburgh, Scotland... READ MORE›

CHINA JOINS AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, TAJIKISTAN IN SECURITY ALLIANCE

China is also working with Pakistan and the United States to broker peace talks to end a Taliban insurgency that has raged for 15 years in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

FINDING GOBI MARATHON RUNNER REUNITED WITH LOST DOG

The dog had joined the ultra-marathoner on a 250km 155 mile run across China's Gobi desert last month... READ MORE›

CHINA TO INVEST MORE THAN $148 BILLION IN METROS BY 2020

China to invest more than 148 billion in metros by 2020 state media... READ MORE›

Another 11 were injured in the disaster in Tiechanggou township, outside the Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi... READ MORE›

DEATHS IN CHINA'S SICHUAN QUAKE RISE TO 13, INCLUDING TOURISTS

Paramilitary police search for survivors after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou county, Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan province, China August 9, 2017... READ MORE›

CHINESE SCIENTISTS CHANGE SHEEP COLOR BY GENE EDITING

The researchers in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, have bred five sheep with different colors with the technique, known as CRISPR-Cas9... READ MORE›