From AP: An exiled Chinese Muslim activist living in the U.S. urged China on Wednesday to allow an independent probe of an anti-terror raid that officials say killed 18 militants. China said 18 terror suspects were killed and 17 arrested during the raid at an alleged training camp run by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, […]
Read MoreFrom AP: Police found links to international terrorist groups during a raid on an alleged terror camp in China’s restive western Muslim region last week, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday… “There is a large amount of evidence that shows, including evidence we got from this raid, that the ETIM is associated with international terrorist forces,” […]
Read MoreFrom The Southern Weekend, Summarized by Xiangfeng Yang, via Chinaelections.org: In the largest cadre training program since the opening-up policy (gaige kaifang), more than 5,000 county officials (xianguang) will be trained session by session by the end of January in five CPC party schools, i.e. the Central party School and National School of Administration in […]
Read MoreFrom Eurasia Daily Monitor: On December 23 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev wrapped up his first three-day visit to Beijing since his reelection in December 2005. The trip, characterized as “a breakthrough” in bilateral relations by the official mouthpiece Kazakhstanskaya pravda, was marked by series of landmark agreements aimed at boosting economic and trade ties and […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: Chinese police have killed 18 people in a raid on an alleged militant training camp in the western autonomous region of Xinjiang, officials say. One policeman was killed and another injured in the raid, which took place on Friday, a police spokesman said. China is waging a campaign against what it calls […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia’s mandarin service, translated by CDT: Lawyer activist Gao Zhisheng (È´òÊô∫Êôü)’s mother-in-law returned to Urumqi (‰πåÈ≤ÅÊú®ÈΩê) and told the reporter that Gao was taken away by the state authorities 4-5 days before the New Year for “a talk” and his whereabouts is now unknown to the outside world. The Falun Gong-representing lawyer […]
Read MoreFrom xinhua via china.org.cn: China has experienced its warmest autumn for 55 years with its average temperature 1.6 degrees Celsius higher than normal, according to the Science Times. The temperature rise of 1.6 degrees Celsius has broken the record for temperature rises since 1951, said Zhang Qiang, assistant director-general of disaster relief with the China […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Wearing an NBA sweatshirt and a Mickey Mouse cap, 13-year-old Mingbayi Abdubaki plays beside the mountainous highway to Pakistan with a battery-powered earth digger he built himself from scrap. The Chinese teenager hopes to design real machines when he grows up, but if you believe his headmaster, he cannot understand a word of […]
Read MoreFrom China in Transition blog: More than 10,000 people in Urumqi, Xinjiang, found their home freezing after the heat was stopped on Saturday. A coal-burning furnace providing heat for the area stopped working after heat company workers fed it with coals of poor quality. The company purchased these bad coals from some small coal mines, […]
Read MoreFrom IPS: The evening light dances on the glazed pink tiles of the shapely buildings around the ancient Idkah mosque and in the enfolding dusk the site evokes tales from the ‘One thousand and one nights’. But the illusion is fleeting — none of the buildings in this spot, except for the revered mosque, is […]
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