Cities Along the Silk Road

13 Aug 2012

Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims yesterday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300...

Jail terms for 20 rebel Uygurs

3 Aug 2012

Courts in the restive western region of Xinjiang have sentenced 20 ethnic Uygurs to jail for up to 15 years for terrorism and separatist crimes, as local authorities continue stepped-up efforts to...

Xinjiang violence nothing to fuss about, official says

7 Mar 2012

A top Xinjiang official and National People's Congress deputy says it is normal for an area with ethnic tensions to have rioting like the region has seen in recent years.

Ten hacked to death in Kashgar rampage

29 Feb 2012

At least 10 people were hacked to death when mobs went on the rampage in the restive Xinjiang region yesterday evening, state media reported.

Blessings - Enlightenment

1 Feb 2012

Ink-and-colour paintings illuminated with gold (including Blessings 10, left) by Sun Guangyi that are evocative of the Buddhist paintings at ancient sites such as Dunhuang. Tue-Sat, 9.30am- 6....

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Traces: On the Road Again

Stanley Wong Ping-Pui's (aka anothermountainman) photographs of Chinese characters taken around the world over the past 15 years (eg, Kanzi 9) and the desert landscape around Dunhuang. Today-Sun...

Traveling the Silk Road

Traveling the Silk Road
by Mark Norell, Denise Patry Leidy and the American Museum of Natural History
Sterling Signature

Xian's cultural core seeks investors

Qujiang new district, known as Xian's cultural core, is seeking to raise money in Hong Kong to strengthen its role as a cultural hub for western China. At a ceremony yesterday, 21 projects were...

Beijing unveils incentives for Xinjiang SEZs

Beijing has revealed details of its plan to fast-track special economic zones in two border cities in Xinjiang under its campaign of economic development to ease ethnic tensions in the far-western...

Police admit negligence in sex slave case

Police in Henan province yesterday made a public apology for failing to detect a sex-slave scandal which has sparked a panic over public safety.

Was reporter killed over waste oil story?

A news reporter with Luoyang TV in Henan province was found stabbed to death early Monday morning, sparking fears that he may have been targeted for his investigative reports.