Chinese authorities have moved to close a large number of mosques used by ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. In both the region capital of Urumqi and Kashgar in the western ...

There were the bits of graffiti we filmed, written in Uighur, that we later had translated. "Oh my heart don't break," read one. Another in Chinese said simply: "Step by step." All men at the camp ...

Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60 percent from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region ...

Welcome to the row over cotton from the Xinjiang region of China. Rights groups say Xinjiang's Uighur minority (also spelled as "Uyghur") are being persecuted and conscripted for forced labour.

The construction of the Tianshan Shengli Expressway Tunnel was completed on December 30. Spanning 22.13 kilometers, the ...

The reporter noticed something striking: A reason for detention in more than a third of the cases was having too many children. The reporter knew individual Uighur and Kazakh women had spoken out ...

China completed on Monday (Dec 30) the construction of the world’s longest expressway tunnel through snow-covered mountains ...

Prominent Uighur, Jordanian, and Turkish foreign fighters given military ranks, as Islamist rebel group at core of de facto ...

On December 30, the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel became the world’s longest expressway tunnel making travel through the Tianshan ...

It’s too painful to think about the possibility that Japanese companies are selling products made using forced Uighur labor.” Afumetto came to Japan to study 18 years ago and currently works ...

They point to attacks in 2013 and 2014, which Uighur militants claimed responsibility for. In 2017, the Xinjiang government passed a law prohibiting men from growing long beards and women from ...

Uighur Rock, Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia, which unearths an eclectic sonic era from the dusty crates of history ...