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Demonstrations in Urumqi – Official Response

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Xinhua news agency is now reporting that, between 8:00 PM on 5 July and 12:30 AM on 6 July (Beijing time), rioting broke out in several parts of the city of Urumqi. They report [...]

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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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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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Suspects Arrested, Killed, in Kucha Attacks

Posted by Tewpiq on August 11, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Xinhua’s English-language site is now reporting that eight of the suspected bombers in Sunday morning’s attacks in Kucha (Quchar, 库车) have been shot and killed by security forces. Two more apparently committed suicide by way [...]

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Youku Reactions to Kashgar Attack

Posted by Porfiriy on August 05, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

As we await more clarifying information for China’s state organs, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at some assorted reactions Chinese citizens are making to the attacks on Mandarin language pages. I’ll [...]

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Men Armed with Explosives Attack Police in Kashgar; 16 are Killed

Posted by Porfiriy on August 04, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The buzz about the terrorist capabilities of armed groups based in Xinjiang was given a gruesome new twist Monday at 8:00AM when two individuals attacked a group of jogging policemen in the city of Kashgar [...]

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Knife Wielding Mini-Terrorist Cell Busted in Urumqi

Posted by Porfiriy on July 10, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Hasan, why are you running at me with that 50 cm long Uyghur musical instrument? Originally, the details disclosed by various news agencies described police retaliation against some non-ideological hooliganism that occurred in Xinjiang – [...]

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