From the Global Voices: Last Friday (Sep 4), three Hong Kong journalists were beaten up and detained by Xinjiang armed polices when they were covering the protest in Urumqi. Yesterday, the authorities in Xinjiang claimed that...
Read MoreThe Straits Times reports on the beating of three Hong Kong reporters in Xinjiang during recent protests: The three journalists were tackled and detained by paramilitary police while trying to escape tear gas fired to disperse...
Read MoreThe Toronto Star looks at whether recent reports of organized syringe attacks in Xinjiang, which subsequently sparked protests, are truth or rumor: Demonstrations by frightened Chinese erupted in the Xinjiang capital last week...
Read MoreAP reports on the ongoing protests in Urumqi following reports of a string of syringe attacks. Five people have been killed in the protests: Deputy Mayor Zhang Hong reported the casualties at a news conference in the city,...
Read MoreFrom AP: Hundreds of Chinese protested deteriorating public safety Thursday after a series of mysterious syringe attacks further unnerved residents in the western Chinese city of Urumqi where ethnic rioting in July killed nearly...
Read MoreThe Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue, in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that govern Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the Chinese blogosphere, it is the online lingo for the Central...
Read MoreThe Times of India reports that Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has been urging the Chinese government to invest in Pakistan, offering his country’s ports for Chinese trade: “Pakistan can be a transit to...
Read MoreThe Hindu reports: In recent weeks, China has significantly expanded its economic presence in the energy-rich Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan, where a number of countries including India and the United States have in the past...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports that more than 200 people may be put on trial this week for their participation in the Urumqi riots in July: China Daily, an English-language newspaper, quoted an unnamed police source as saying...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A pioneering Chinese legal rights advocate, who had been detained for more than three weeks and accused of tax evasion, was released on Sunday but might still face prosecution, he and his lawyers said. Xu Zhiyong,...
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