Recent News Headlines : Yarkand - China
8 DEAD AFTER KNIFE ATTACK IN CHINA'S WESTERN XINJIANG REGION
Pishan county is in the far south of Xinjiang, bordering Pakistan... READ MORE›
NEW YEARS'S DAY GUNMAN LIVED IN TURKEY'S MIGRANT COMMUNITY
Police in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir detained 20 suspected Islamic State militants, some of Central Asian origin, on Wednesday... READ MORE›
CHINESE MUSLIM WEBSITE BLOCKED AFTER XI JINPING LETTER
In the next spring of China's new Jasmine Revolution, who will drive your tanks to crush us, the new generation of students after 1989?... READ MORE›
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CHINA BANS RAMADAN FASTING IN MAINLY MUSLIM REGION
China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open... 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›
CHINA TARGETS PARENTS WITH RELIGION RULES IN XINJIANG
The government strongly denies committing any abuses in Xinjiang and insists the legal, cultural and religious rights of the Uighur people are fully protected... READ MORE›
CHINA, SAUDI ARABIA HOLD JOINT 'ANTI-TERROR' DRILLS
Human rights groups say violence in Xinjiang is more a reaction to repressive government policies and limits on Uighurs' religious freedoms, accusations the government denies... READ MORE›
XINJIANG SEETHES UNDER CHINESE CRACKDOWN
KASHGAR, China -- Families sundered by a wave of detentions... 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›
CHINA RANKS LAST OF 65 NATIONS IN INTERNET FREEDOM
BEIJING -- China ranks last in the world for openness among countries studied in a new report on Internet freedom by a prominent American pro-democracy group... 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›
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SECULAR IN AN AGE OF EXTREMISM
In the United States, secularism implies a freedom for religion in France, it is a freedom from... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 5 POLICE SAID TO BE KILLED IN CHINA STABBING
Repeated calls to the Xinjiang government and public security departments were not answered... 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 HOLDS FIRST ANTI-TERROR DRILLS WITH SAUDI ARABIA
Chinese officials have long been concerned that instability in Afghanistan will spill over into China's western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people... READ MORE›
THAILAND FORCIBLY SENDS NEARLY 100 UIGHUR MUSLIMS BACK TO CHINA
Hundreds possibly thousands of Uighurs have fled unrest in China's western Xinjiang region where hundreds of people have been killed... READ MORE›
15 KILLED IN TERRORIST ATTACK IN WESTERN CHINA
4 COMMENTEMAILMORE BEIJING AP Chinese state media say 15 people have been killed in an attack in the country's troubled western Xinjiang region... READ MORE›
BRITAIN IS BENDING OVER BACKWARD TO PROVE ITS FRIENDSHIP TO CHINA
Britain is bending over backward to prove its friendship to China... READ MORE›
DISCOVERY GAINS EUROPEAN RIGHTS TO 4 OLYMPICS
Discovery paid 1.3 billion euros or about 1.45 billion for the rights to four Olympic Games... READ MORE›
CHINA EXECUTES THREE MEN CONVICTED IN MASS STABBING AT TRAIN STATION
A higher court later upheld the sentence, the official Xinhua news agency reported... 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›
CHINA APPEALS FOR U.S. HELP TO FIGHT XINJIANG MILITANTS
Support in fighting Islamist militants in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang saying they are also a threat to the United States... 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 'TERRORIST ATTACK' KILLS AT LEAST 15
Details of what official reports immediately dubbed a terrorist attack remained sketchy on Saturday afternoon, one day after the incident took place in Xinjiang's Yarkand county... READ MORE›
CHINA FREES 2 BROTHERS OF US REPORTER FOR RADIO FREE ASIA
Violent episodes in Xinjiang often go unreported in China's state-run news media, frequently making Mr. Hoshur's reporting the only source of information about them... READ MORE›
CHINA, TURKEY PLEDGE TO DEEPEN COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION
China hopes both sides can achieve even more substantive results in counter-terrorism cooperation, China's state-run Xinhua news agency cited Xi as saying... READ MORE›
BANGKOK BOMBING: INVESTIGATION TURNS TO UIGHURS
Thailand sparked international condemnation in July when the country deported 109 Uighurs a move human rights groups said violated international conventions... READ MORE›
CHINESE POLICE REQUIRE DNA FOR PASSPORTS IN XINJIANG
Many Muslims in Xinjiang say they are discriminated against. They say the Chinese authorities often refuse to issue documents allowing them to travel... 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 SAYS TECH FIRMS PLEDGE TO COUNTER ONLINE TERROR ACTIVITIES
Among other things, it requires technology firms to help decrypt information and cooperate with the government in fighting terrorism... READ MORE›
CAR BOMB ATTACK IN BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN
Chinese embassy blast Car bomb attack in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan... READ MORE›
BANGKOK BOMBING: NEW THEORIES TURN TO TURKISH TRAVELLERS, GREY WOLVES
Mr Davis, a long-time Bangkok resident, said the Grey Wolves had ties with organised criminal networks worldwide... READ MORE›
CHINA SENTENCES MAN TO 7 YEARS IN JAIL FOR WATCHING A FILM
It's part of the state's wider crackdown on minority Muslims in Xinjiang... READ MORE›