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“Xinjiang People, I’m Sorry, Thank You”

I promised, a few posts down, another document that refers to “Xinjiang people”, not just Uyghur or Han or whatever.
Recently, the following post, once found at this address, was passed on to me by a friend. It seems to have circulated on the Web since perhaps early November. It is a lengthy and [...]

Xinjiang Economic News Roundup for 25-31 2008

In this week’s economic news roundup: Australia’s Arrow Energy and Korea’s ecoeye set their sites on Xinjiang’s natural resources. Tax is going high-tech. Sugar beets are getting more expensive.

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 several sources have reported. (There seems to be some confusion in these articles over what, exactly, “year-on-year” means. It [...]

Xinjiang Roundup: 30 December 2007 to 5 January 2008

This week in Xinjiang, global warming was given a silver lining, the XPCC strengthened its presence in Northern Xinjiang, a model Uyghur policeman was selected as a finalist for Olympic torchbearer, TVs were distributed to rural households by the Ministry of Propaganda over New Year’s, flights between Urumqi and Dushanbe were regularized, and more, under [...]

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 Korla airport, the establishment of a giant panoptic XPCC health information archive, and a giant fireball siting over west-central Xinjiang [...]

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, under the break.