Xinjiang's irate minority Uighurs begin to worry Beijing
30 Mar 2010: The February 15 killing of the militant Uighur leader Abdul Haq al-Turkistani by an American drone in the border regions of Pakistan highlighted China’s continued sensitivity when it comes to its remote and vulnerable western region, Xinjiang. It alsoFour Uighurs sentenced to die in Xinjiang
27 Jan 2010: A court in China has sentenced another four people, all apparently ethnic Uighurs, to death for their part in last year's ethnic riots in the western Xinjiang region, state media has reported. A fifth person was also given the death penalty, but isChina sentences three more Uighurs to death over Xinjiang riots
15 Oct 2009: China sentenced three people to death today over murders committed during riots in the western Xinjiang region in July, bringing the number of people facing the death penalty for the riots to nine. Nearly 200 people were killed when riots erupted in theChina to Execute Uighurs for Xinjiang Unrest
13 Oct 2009: Chinese authorities sentenced on Monday, October 12, six Uighurs to death over deadly unrest in the northwestern Muslim-majority Xinjiang region in July, delivering on a vow of harsh retribution. “Members of our family were in court today. We are veryUyghurs face an education dilemma
07 Oct 2009: BEIJING - Language, culture and identity have always been thorny issues in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Recent developments in the educational system once again bring into the spotlight the delicate balance between China'sChina makes it illegal to discuss independence for Xinjiang
28 Sep 2009: Xinjiang was the scene of deadly race riots earlier this year between local Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority, and Han Chinese. Almost 200 people died in Urumqi, the capital of the province, as Uighurs rose up against the Chinese government. China hasChina sentences 3 to prison over syringe attacks
12 Sep 2009: China's has sentenced three people to prison terms of up to 15 years for a series of mysterious syringe attacks in the restive region of Xinjiang. The official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday that 19-year-old Yilipan Yilihamu was given 15 years forAlert over China plague outbreak
03 Aug 2009: Authorities in China have imposed a quarantine on a remote town in the country's northwest amid an outbreak of pneumonic plague that has killed two people and triggered a health alert. About a dozen other people living in the town Ziketan in QinghaiChina detain 319 suspects over July riots
02 Aug 2009: Chinese police detained 319 people suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic rioting in northwestern Xinjiang region last month, after a "wanted" list of suspects spurred tip-offs, the official Xinhua agency said today. The Public Security Bureau of theChina seeks to reduce its 13 million abortions a year
30 Jul 2009: BEIJING - With more than 13 million abortions at registered clinics every year, China needs to step up sex education to better inform youth on contraception, state press said Thursday. Nearly half the women who have abortions do not use any form of birthChinese Internet censorship: Technologies China is using to censor the Web
21 Jul 2009: "China has several gigabytes per second of traffic to deal with and has a lot more international businesses," he says. "They can't be as heavy-handed with their filtration. The Iranians aren't as concerned about that… so they get to use all these fancyChina admits to shooting dead 12 Uighur rioters
19 Jul 2009: Chinese police shot and killed 12 Uighur rioters in Xinjiang this month, regional governor Nuer Baikeli said on Saturday, in a rare government admission of the deaths inflicted by security forces. In Xinjiang's worst ethnic unrest in decades, UighursGovernment PR campaign targets Chinese Muslims
16 Jul 2009: HOTAN, China – The chorus of smiling Muslims and Han Chinese wore matching yellow polo shirts and appeared on television Wednesday, singing: "We are all part of the same family." The TV spot was the latest effort in a relentless propaganda campaign byAfricans protest in China after Nigerian dies in immigration raid
16 Jul 2009: More than 100 African people surrounded a police station in Guangzhou yesterday afternoon after a Nigerian man died during an immigration raid, state media said today. Reports said he jumped out of a second floor shop window as police mounted surpriseAnalysis: Income gaps, corruption fuel China riots
15 Jul 2009: Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China. In the most recent case, more than 180 people diedA civil rights movement for Uighurs
14 Jul 2009: In 1955, a 14-year-old African-American boy named Emmett Till, who had been sent to rural Mississippi to spend the summer with his uncle, was beaten and shot, and then his body was weighed down and dropped into the Tallahatchie River after he was allegedslashnews
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