Authorities in China's troubled Xinjiang region will step up identity checks and monitor religious activities in a renewed bid to quash terrorism, separatism ...
A court in western China's Xinjiang region sentenced to death Monday six people convicted of violent crimes in July riots that left nearly ...
Police in the restive Chinese city of Urumqi ordered inhabitants to stay indoors on Thursday amid reports of fresh unrest in the capital of the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, residents said. They said the order came after reports of a protest march ...
Police Thursday ordered inhabitants of Urumqi, the restive capital of the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, to stay indoors after reports of fresh unrest, residents said. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition
An Uighur woman protests before a group of paramilitary police in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Tuesday, July 7 , 2009. Ethnic Uighurs scuffled with armed police Tuesday in a fresh protest in the western region of Xinjiang, ...
Several hundred people have been arrested over riots in China's restive Xinjiang region, according to state media, as the official death toll from the violence reached 140. "Police have arrested several hundred participants, including more than 10 key figures who fanned the ...
Riots in China's Xinjiang region left 129 people dead and 816 others injured, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition
A man died on Thursday after detonating a bomb in an office building in the capital of China's Muslim-populated Xinjiang region, state press reported. Two office workers were injured in the attack, Xinhua news agency said in a brief dispatch, citing local ...
Dec 18, 2008 - Urumqi, Xinjiang, China - Five miners are trapped after a coal mine collapsed Thursday in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Six people were working underground when the mine collapsed. One person managed to escape, the others remained trapped. ...
081209) -- KAX, Dec. 9, 2008 -- Chinese Muslims attend a prayer at a mosque in Kax, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Dec. 9, 2008. Muslims of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region celebrated on Tuesday the Eid al-Adha festival, which falls ...
Dec 15, 2008 - Karamay, Xinjiang, China - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's largest oil and gas producer, has found a natural gas field with a proven reserve of 100 billion cubic meters in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The ...
Buildings are enveloped in floating dust in Turpan City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 2, 2008. A sand storm along with sharp drop of temperature hit the city on Tuesday.Liu Jian) (wyo Copyright 2008 ZUMA Press Inc
