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CHINA TO TRANSFER MORE WATER TO ITS LONGEST INLAND RIVER


The Tarim River runs 1,321 kilometers along the rim of the barren Tarim Basin, a sparsely populated area about the size of Poland... READ MORE

20th March, 2018 0

CHINA LAUNCHES ANTI-POVERTY DRIVE IN RESTIVE XINJIANG


Three-year plan aims to bring 400,000 people out of poverty in the region amid concerns of a rise in armed groups... READ MORE

18th February, 2018 2316

CHINA BANS MUSLIM CHILDREN FROM QURAN CLASSES


The Linxia education bureau has declined to comment on the document's validity... READ MORE

17th January, 2018 4795

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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

4th May, 2016 21961

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

23rd March, 2017 12348

UK ACCUSED OF DOING CHINA'S BIDDING AFTER POLICE RAID HOME OF TIANANMEN SQUARE SURVIVOR OVER PEACEFUL PROTEST


Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003... READ MORE

22nd October, 2015 9144

BAN ON LONG BEARDS, VEILS IN XINJIANG


Xinjiang is home ot about 10 million Uighur Muslims, who have said they routinely face discrimination... READ MORE

1st April, 2017 8503

CHINA'S COMMUNIST PARTY HARDENS RHETORIC ON ISLAM


READ MORE Is China changing its policy towards Uighur Muslims?... READ MORE

13th March, 2017 8416

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

24th November, 2016 6137

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

1st March, 2017 5138

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

12th October, 2016 4265

CHINESE AUTHORITIES COLLECTING DNA FROM ALL RESIDENTS OF XINJIANG


Chinese authorities are collecting DNA samples, fingerprints and other biometric data from every resident in a far western region, Human Rights Watch has said... READ MORE

13th December, 2017 4190

XINJIANG BAN ON LONG BEARDS AND VEILS


The restrictions were approved by Xinjiang lawmakers and published on the region's official news website... READ MORE

1st April, 2017 3845

4 CARTOONS THAT SUM UP THE ABSURDITY OF SAUDI ARABIA LEADING A UN HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL


Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... READ MORE

3rd January, 2016 3618

'LADY SOS': THE WOMAN SAVING SYRIAN REFUGEES AT SEA


Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... READ MORE

28th February, 2016 3162

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

27th October, 2016 3083

CHINA: THOUGHT POLICE INSTILL FEAR IN WESTERN CHINA


Along with the detention camps, unprecedented levels of police blanket Xinjiang's streets... READ MORE

17th December, 2017 2882

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

14th December, 2016 2822

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

12th May, 2017 2647

LOOMING CRUCIFIXION SPARKS GLOBAL CALLS TO SPARE LIFE OF YOUNG SAUDI ALI MOHAMMED AL-NIMR


Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE

24th September, 2015 1864

GOVERNMENT URGED TO REVEAL ITS ROLE IN GETTING SAUDI ARABIA A UN HUMAN RIGHTS ROLE


Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... READ MORE

4th January, 2016 1853

CHINA BANS 'ABNORMAL' BEARDS & VEILS TO CURB EXTREMISM IN MUSLIM REGION


The Uighur people - the dominant Muslim minority in Xinjiang -mostly practice a moderate form of Sunni Islam... READ MORE

31st March, 2017 1648

XINJIANG SEETHES UNDER CHINESE CRACKDOWN


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

3rd January, 2016 1283

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

19th July, 2017 1256

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

23rd June, 2017 1228

AMAZON EVERYWHERE: E-COMMERCE TITAN IS TOPIC COMPANIES CAN'T AVOID


Executives at Thermo Fisher Scientific, whose business includes supplying equipment to research laboratories, have fielded questions about an Amazon impact as far back as five years... READ MORE

29th July, 2017 1200

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

15th September, 2015 1163

PALU JOURNAL A CITY TURNS TO FACE INDONESIAS MURDEROUS PAST


Mastura signed a local regulation officially recognizing human rights abuse victims in the city... READ MORE

12th July, 2015 1147

THIS RANT COMPARING IDS AND CHINA WAS TOO MUCH FOR EVEN THE QUESTION TIME AUDIENCE


I just wonder how the Conservative government can scrutinise China for their human rights violations when they are being investigated themselves he said... READ MORE

23rd October, 2015 1059

PUTIN SIGNS LAW ALLOWING RUSSIA TO OVERTURN RULINGS OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS COURTS


MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts... READ MORE

15th December, 2015 1030

CHINA'S XI LAUDS BRITAIN FOR 'VISIONARY' OPENNESS, PRODS OTHERS TO EMULATE


The islands and reefs in the South China Sea are Chinese territory since ancient times... READ MORE

18th October, 2015 975

BEIJING'S LATEST WORRY: THOUSANDS OF CHINESE JIHADIS JOINING TERROR GROUPS IN SYRIA


The Turkistan Islamic Party is the other name for the East Turkistan Islamic Movement that considers China's Xinjiang to be East Turkistan... READ MORE

22nd April, 2017 954

WHY IS IT LEFT TO US NGOS TO EXPOSE AUSTRALIAN MINING'S WRONGDOING IN AFRICA?


The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE

27th July, 2015 915


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