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Xinhua Deputy Chief Editor Reveals New Details of the Urumqi Riots

Posted by Tewpiq on June 04, 2010 under Xinjiang in the News

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 under Video and Audio Material , Xinjiang in the News

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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Two Uighurs Shot Dead in Urumqi by Chinese Police

Posted by Sherin on July 14, 2009 under Links , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

Two Uighurs were shot dead by Chinese policemen today in Urumqi, according to the BBC. Another man was injured in the shooting. A spokesmen for the Chinese government claims that the shooting occurred as a [...]

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Visual Misrepresentations in the Turkish Media

Posted by Sherin on July 13, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Turkish daily newspaper Zaman’s video news story, Urumçi’de çatışma,  about the Urumchi riots is stunning due to its visual misrepresentations. While the Turkish voice over focuses entirely on the situation in Urumchi, for an [...]

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Swedish Uyghur Arrested on Charges of Espionage

Posted by Tewpiq on June 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

On 4 June 2009, the Swedish Security Police (Säpo) arrested a Uyghur man in Stockholm on charges of espionage. The man in question, whose identity is otherwise undisclosed, is 61 years of age, received asylum [...]

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Old Kashgar: Reconfiguring Space With Bulldozers

Posted by Tewpiq on May 28, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Word of Old Kashgar’s imminent destruction has reached The New York Times. The story broke in the American media back in March with the Washington Post, was picked up by the Emirati The National, and [...]

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Turkistan Islamic Party on Pakistan-China extradition: translation

Posted by Tewpiq on May 12, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Recently, we linked to a video of a spokesman for the Turkistan Islamic Party (Türkistan Islam Partiyisi (TIP) تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى) responding to the news that 9 Uyghurs had been arrested in Pakistan and extradited [...]

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Latest from the CECC

Posted by Tewpiq on February 05, 2009 under Links

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has just released its latest newsletter.  This issue includes four excellent pieces on topics of interest to Xinjiang watchers: The PRC is promoting a new program of  “ethnic unity education“. [...]

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Bilingual Education News

Posted by Tewpiq on February 03, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

It’s the beginning of a new year, and that means it’s time for Xinhua to publish statistics. Most interesting to me are some new figures on the PRC’s efforts to promote “bilingual” education. “Bilingual” education [...]

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Earthquake in Chapchal

Posted by Tewpiq on January 27, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Sunday, 25 January 2009 at 9:47 AM Beijing time (7:47 local time), an earthquake measuring approximately 5.0 on the Richter scale shook the Chapchal Sibe Autonomous County in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of northwestern [...]

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Xinhua Version of Kashgar Attack Addresses NYT Doubts

Posted by Porfiriy on December 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

This is the second sentencing we’ve covered at The New Dominion (the other being the sentencing of conspiracists captured in January 2007) and both have been quite informative because sentencing is when the authorites release [...]

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New York Times Raises Doubt over Kashgar Attack; Cites Witnesses, Photos

Posted by Porfiriy on September 29, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Over a month ago, the Associated Press released 3 photos depicting the aftermath of the August 4th attack in Kashgar. The official version of events first has a dump truck ploughing into ranks of drilling [...]

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