Tag Archives: RFA

China Sets 100% as Target for Bilingual Kindergarten Enrollment among Shule County Kids

Image by pmorgan I’ve translated a short article published today on Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur service. Bilingual education is one of the most controversial policies of the Xinjiang regional government, and is frequently accused of [...]

More Xinjiang Links

My apologies for another run-and-gun style post. We mentioned in a previous roundup that Uighurbiz, an outspoken online community, was shut down, and that its owner, Ilham Tohti, dropped off the radar for a few [...]

Earthquake in Chapchal

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 [...]

Victims of Latest Violence all Uyghurs

The victims of the latest bout of violence in Jiashi/Peyziwat County were all Uyghur police officers local to the area, according to the information-laden latest report from Radio Free Asia. Furthermore, the attack was linked [...]

The Mystery of the Time Traveling Executions: Uyghur Terrorists Get Not-So-Summary Sentences?

Update: The mystery appears to be solved. My suspicions that the contradictions could be resolved by the possibility that RFA was simply wrong in its reporting turned out to be correct. The RFA article has [...]