Kashgar

By Iain Marlow and Hannah DormidoSeveral Chinese cities, including Beijing, have dramatically improved their air quality in recent years, while Indian metropolises remain some of the world’s worst polluted, according to a new report. Beijing -- once infamous for its toxic haze -- has reduced smog levels and dropped down…

-7 Police in northwest China rescue herdsman and his sheep trapped in wetland Police in northwestern China's Xinjiang rescued a herdsman and his three sheep trapped in a muddy wetland. The video, provided by Kashgar Television with permission shows several police officers carrying the 63-year-old herdsman named Mai while others…

A leaked database has exposed in detail reasons for the detentions of hundreds of people in the Chinese territory of Xinjiang. he database profiles the internment of 311 individuals with relatives abroad in Karakax County, and lists information on more than 2,000 of their relatives, neighbours and friends. Each entry…

Leaked data has revealed that China is compiling extensive data on its Uighur Muslim minority including whether they're growing a beard, if they've attended Hajj and their 'family's trustworthiness'.   As a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly imam was swept…

ISTANBUL When Rozinisa Memet Tohtis family stopped returning her calls three years ago, she feared the worst. But nothing could prepare her for seeing a leaked Chinese government database document of Uighurs targeted for internment. There, in row 358, she f…

2020-02-04 -- Authorities in Atush (in Chinese, Atushi), in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have fenced off the city's roads, leaving residents confined to their homes and running out of supplies, as they work to control the rapid spread of the deadly novel coronavirus (nCoV), which has been…

2020-02-03 - Information about the novel coronavirus (nCoV) and how it has spread in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is a "state secret" and cannot be shared with the public, according to a government employee in the region's capital Urumqi. On Jan. 23, Chinese state media cited local…

A strong earthquake damaged buildings and injured at least one person in a rural part of Chinas far west Xinjiang region, the government said on Monday. Rescue teams were sent to Peyzawat county, a rural area outside of the city of Kashgar, after the Sunday…

Jan. 19, 2020 at 7:35 pm Updated Jan. 19, 2020 at 9:20 pm BEIJING (AP) — A strong earthquake damaged buildings and injured at least one person seriously in China’s far west Xinjiang region, the government said Monday. Rescue teams were sent to Peyzawat county, an area east of the…