Ethnic Conflict

29 Apr 2013

Ethnic tensions in the far western autonomous region of Xinjiang have again flared into violence. In the worst single incident since rioting between Muslim Uygurs and Han Chinese six years ago...

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Fatal clash in Xinjiang shows cadres lack crisis awareness, analysts say

29 Apr 2013

Nine officials, six police officers and six ethnic Uygurs died in the incident on Tuesday afternoon in a town in Bachu county, Kashgar prefecture, about 1,200 kilometres southwest of the...

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Three jailed over shop row that sparked sectarian riots in Myanmar

13 Apr 2013

A Muslim businessman, his wife and an employee have been jailed after an altercation at their gold shop led to anti-Muslim riots in which at least 43 people died in Myanmar last month. Shop owner...

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State linked to Myanmar unrest, says UN

30 Mar 2013

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Myanmar's human rights said he had received reports of "state involvement" in some of the recent violence between Buddhists and Muslims in the former army-...

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Myanmar sets new curfews after fresh violence

26 Mar 2013

Authorities in Myanmar imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in three townships on Tuesday after anti-Muslim religious violence touched new parts of the country, edging closer to the main city of Yangon...

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Myanmar warns ethnic violence could threaten reforms

26 Mar 2013

Myanmar’s government warned on Monday that religious violence could threaten democratic reforms after anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in the country’s predominantly Buddhist...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

3:33AM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Worse to come in Myanmar's religious strife

Myanmar is an ethnic and religious powder keg as its people emerge from under the jackboot of military rule. Any number of simmering internal conflicts have the potential to involve the wider...

3:28AM

Rioting in central Myanmar leaves at least 10 dead

A dispute between a Muslim gold-shop owner and customers in central Myanmar led to rioting in which at least 10 people died. President's office director Major Zaw Htay said those hurt on Wednesday...

2:44AM

Kenyan elections on Monday stir fears of ethnic violence

Down in the valley there's a clue why. Sunshine gleams off the metal roofs of housing built for families displaced by ethnic violence that followed Kenya's general election five years ago. More...

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PAKISTAN

2012 deadliest year in Karachi for two decades

Pakistan’s financial hub Karachi saw its deadliest year in two decades last year, with around 2,000 people killed in violence linked to ethnic and political tensions.

2:54PM

WHAT THE MAINLAND MEDIA SAY

What the mainland media say, December 9, 2012

Fine food often does not come cheap. Take a delicacy such as Xinjiang matang, a dense, cake-like confection that Uygurs make almost entirely of walnuts and other nuts. A single slab of the stuff...

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XINJIANG

World's most expensive baklava: US$25,000 cake goes viral on Chinese social media