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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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Urumchi Olympic Torch Relay in Retrospect

Posted by Tewpiq on June 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Updates: Reuters has an informative article on the broken promise of press freedom in the Xinjiang and Tibet torch relays, part of a series on the Olympic flame. The New York Times also has an [...]

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Olympic Torch Relay, in Urumchi Tomorrow, May Have Few Spectators

Posted by Tewpiq on June 16, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The Olympic torch, originally scheduled to be in Tibet this week, will be arriving in Urumchi tomorrow (Tuesday 17 June). The flame flew into Urumchi from Chongqing yesterday evening, and it will leave Xinjiang on [...]

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Interactive Tourist Map of Urumqi

Posted by Tewpiq on May 16, 2008 under Xinjiang Travel

We at The New Dominion strive to make useful information about Xinjiang available to those who need it, especially in a fun, visual form. That includes tourists who, when faced with the Urumchi section of [...]

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Ani Muqin Cai Sibe Restaurant, Ürümchi

Posted by Tewpiq on May 03, 2008 under Uncategorized

The weather is warming all across Xinjiang, and it’s time for tourists of every kind to start exploring this beautiful land. Since Ürümchi gets such a bad reputation from most of the popular guidebooks out [...]

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Ürümchi Bus Bombing Rumors Abound; None Appear True

Posted by Tewpiq on March 27, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

According to Chinese-language and English-language articles from Xinhua, echoed by the Guardian, the XUAR PSB has detained several individuals for spreading rumors, primarily by text message, of an alleged bus bombing in Ürümchi on the [...]

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Xinjiang Roundup: 18 to 25 January 2008

Posted by Tewpiq on January 29, 2008 under Uncategorized

While Porfiriy’s away, I thought I’d step in and do some news updating. Today’s post includes veterans’ benefits for nuclear test participation, an update on the Ürümchi Dehui fire, educational policy, foreign trade news, awful [...]

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