Tag Archives: kazakhstan

Identity Crisis Bonanza hosted by Pepsi

Uyghurs dressed as Mexicans and Brazilians? Kazakhs and Tartars posing as Russians? Skulking Han Chinese teenagers with Japanese rising sun headbands? Central Asians exulting in German patriotism while the real German begrudgingly cheers for America? [...]

Economic News Roundup: 4-10 March 2008

The New Dominion.net’s Economic News Roundup for 4-10 March 2008 Housing prices in Ürümchi shot up 25% year-on-year in January, leading an overall 11.3% increase in housing prices across China for the same period, as [...]

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 [...]

Xinjiang Roundup: 9 December to 15 December 2007

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, [...]