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Category Archives: Xinjiang in the News

Bombing at Khotan Narbagh Police Station ends in hostage standoff

Posted by Tewpiq on July 19, 2011

It’s summer again, and that means it’s time for confusing reports about violence in Xinjiang. Xinhua reports that, around noon Beijing Time (10:00 AM Xinjiang time) on 18 July, Khotan City sustained a bombing attack [...]

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Man on motorized tricycle throws explosive device at border patrol, kills 7, in Aksu

Posted by Porfiriy on August 19, 2010 Xinjiang and Terrorism

According to news reports which are currently flooding into Western media outlets such as BBC, AP, the Guardian, and the New York Times, a man riding a motorized tricycle and armed with an explosive device [...]

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Diaspora Uyghurs in America, Norway on Norway Terror Plot

Posted by Porfiriy on July 17, 2010

A week ago Norway unpleasantly discovered that it, too, Nobel Peace Prizes and fjords and all, was a potential target for Al-Qaeda planned terrorist attacks. Norway’s security apparatuses revealed that they had successfully apprehended three [...]

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Translation: Public Security Foils “East Turkestan Islamic Movement” Terrorist Plot

Posted by Porfiriy on June 24, 2010 Translations into English

A few hours ago, Public Security spokesperson Wu Heping held a news conference to divulge details on an alleged Uyghur terrorist plot that apparently was foiled by Public Security forces recently. The most comprehensive Mandarin-language report [...]

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Xinhua Deputy Chief Editor Reveals New Details of the Urumqi Riots

Posted by Tewpiq on June 04, 2010

A 15 May lecture by Xinhua Deputy Chief Editor Xia Lin (夏林) at Tianjin Foreign Studies University began making the English-language media rounds today. You can find the English translation of the lecture, transcribed by [...]

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Guangdong TV News Blurb on Opening of Xinjiang Internet

Posted by Porfiriy on May 14, 2010 Video and Audio Material

From an article at QQ, here’s a blurb of a TV report, apparently named “Morning in Guangdong” (广东早晨) that briefly mentioned the opening of Internet in Xinjiang.  

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Translation: Diligently Protect a Healthy and Open Internet Environment

Posted by Porfiriy on May 14, 2010 Translations into English

Along with the “Open Letter” to Xinjiang Netizens, Tianshan Net also published an article by a commentator on the significance of the reopening of the Internet and the responsibilities expected of netizens now that everything [...]

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Translation: An Open Letter to All Netizen Friends Throughout Xinjiang

Posted by Porfiriy on May 14, 2010 Translations into English

As part of the announcement of the reopening of the Internet in Xinjiang, the regional government wrote an “Open Letter” to the Internet users of Xinjiang. Below is our translation of the letter.

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Xinjiang Internet: Restored

Posted by Porfiriy on May 14, 2010

After almost an entire year under an Internet blackout, Xinjiang has finally been liberated from its digital iron curtain. The grand reopening is currently the main headline on the Xinjiang news site, Tianshan Net. Bold, [...]

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Ilham Tohti: Blacklists that Prohibit Leaving the Country Openly Trample the Law

Posted by Porfiriy on April 27, 2010

Two weeks ago, outspoken Uyghur activist and intellectual Ilham Tohti was prevented from going to Turkey to attend an academic conference on Turkic culture. A quick background on the spat can be found here, at [...]

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Secretary Wang Lequan transferred, replaced with Zhang Chunxian

Posted by Tewpiq on April 26, 2010 Politics in Xinjiang

On 14 April 2010, Wang Lequan (王乐泉) was removed from his post as Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by order of the Central Committee of the [...]

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Trial Implementation of Kashgar Old City Reconstruction to be Broadened

Posted by Porfiriy on March 26, 2010

Image by DPerstin This is a translation of a Mandarin article posted on Tian Shan Net on March 23rd about the expansion of the pilot program in the Kashgar Old City Reconstruction Project. In 2010, [...]

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