Members of the 10th Regional People’s Standing Committee accepted the resignation of Ismail Tiliwaldi from the post of Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. At the same meeting, Nur Bekri was given both the position of Vice-Chairman and Acting Chairman. In an acceptance speech, Bekri accepted the [...]
This week saw even more year-end statistics, the publishing of software that can recognize Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kirghiz writing on scanned images, yet another closure of the Urumqi International Airport, the opening of the new Korla airport, the establishment of a giant panoptic XPCC health information archive, and a giant fireball siting over west-central Xinjiang [...]
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Posted 31 December 2007
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Merry Christmas and Blessed Qurban Festival from The New Dominion! Beginning last Thursday Musilms throughout Xinjiang and China celebrated Qurban Heyt, which commemorates Abraham’s obedience to God when commanded to sacrifice his eldest son Ishmael.
This week saw a massive migration of herds and their flocks take a detour through Aletai City, the opening of a [...]
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Posted 26 December 2007
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Neweurasia, which is in my opinion one of the internet’s best resources for the latest information out of Central Asia, is hosting an end of the year collaborative project in which Central Asia bloggers contemplate the past year’s Central Asia events. The project is hosted here. Though the project was just opened and only three [...]
This week, Xinjiang saw a noble wild camel rescue operation, the unearthing of 2400 year-old wheat stalks, the temporary closure of Urumqi International Airport due to heavy fog, a flurry of end-of-the-year statistics, and more, under the break.
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Posted 17 December 2007
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This week Xinjiang saw the founding of the “Frontier Nationalities Orchestra,” the groundbreaking of Xinjiang’s largest inland fishing port, an education seminar and a writing seminar in Urumqi, a crackdown on poaching, the topographical conquest of the “Sea of Death,” and more, under the break.