Xinjiang

China bars prominent Uygur scholar from travelling to US

3 Feb 2013

A prominent scholar from China’s Turkic Uygur ethnic minority said on Sunday he was detained for more than 12 hours at Beijing’s airport and then sent home when attempting to board a flight to the...

Briefs, January 27, 2013

27 Jan 2013

China's new leadership will focus on modernising the country before it increases Beijing's role in international affairs, a top official told the Davos forum yesterday.

Missing Uygur writer presumed dead

3 Jan 2013

Known for "Wild Pigeon", the short story which resulted in his arrest and sentence, writer and poet Nurmemet Yasin has been imprisoned since 2004 and is believed to have died in 2011, according to...

Death sentence for three Xinjiang plane hijackers

11 Dec 2012

A court in China’s restive Xinjiang region sentenced three men to death on Tuesday after they were found guilty of trying to hijack an aircraft.

Xinjiang police official fired after claim he kept twin mistresses

10 Dec 2012

A police chief in the western autonomous region of Xinjiang was sacked days after he was accused online of keeping twin sisters from a dancing troupe as mistresses.

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

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...

So near yet so feared: peace, harmony, beer

You can say what you like about the never-ending conflict in the Middle East; I believe a big part of the problem stems from one side being forbidden the pacifying balsam of beer.

Local police chief accused of having affairs with dance troupe sisters

A local police chief in Xinjiang is being investigated over claims that he had affairs with two sisters whom he had allegedly hired from a dance troupe, reported the Beijing News on Thursday

XINJIANG

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

All it took was a slice of Xinjiang cake to spark heated debates online over China's policy on ethnic minorities.

Since Monday, qiegao (cut cake) has been a trending topic on Sina Weibo,...

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XINJIANG

There is no ban on Uygur dress, police deputy says at congress

Muslim head coverings and long beards are "kind of passé", a deputy police chief from Xinjiang's Kashgar prefecture said this week when explaining why authorities discouraged such practices among...

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China Digest, September 27, 2012

ANHUI

Crowd-covered hills