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...

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. 

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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,...

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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