Tag Archives: aviation

Emerging discrimination? Three Uyghur pilots grounded.

Update: Xinhua has quickly released an article responding to these allegations. Check it out here. It asserts that the Uyghur pilots in question, Aikebaier Maimaiti and Ailiyiming Niyazi who are 757 captains for China Southern, [...]

Xinjiang Terrorist Attack Foiled in Mid-Air

I’ve flown China Southern Airlines several times. It’s the main airline servicing routes from most Chinese airports to Urumqi. Unlike in the United States, here in China it’s still a-okay to make “young and sexy” [...]

Xinjiang Roundup: 23 December to 29 December 2007

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 [...]