Articles related to "Xinjiang"

The July 2009 outbreak of violence in China's westernmost province is just the latest in a long history of a people's struggle for independence.

Urumqi is the capital city of Xinjiang, a large desert province in the northwest of China. It is a business and transportation hub, and site of the riots of July 2009.

On April 8, 2009, Chinese security forces intensified their ongoing security crackdown against the ethnic Uyghur population of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

China has been making wine for over 2,200 years. So why don't we know more about it?

Sun Shuyun follows the trail of heroic Chinese monk in search of the origins of Buddhism in China.

China has long sought to dominate Tibet and now is using economic rather than political colonization.

Today, August 8, 2008, marks the beginning of the much-hyped Beijing Olympics. Much controversy surrounds the games.

China is home to a wide variety of different dialects. Many Chinese dialects have many differences and are usually mutually unintelligible.

In the last century, three sub-species of tigers vanished. Several more will likely follow. What can the Bali, Caspian, and Javan tigers teach humans about conservation?

What's the jade craze all about? White or green and all shades in between. Who's wearing all those beads, bracelets and jade rings? How do you know it's the real thing?

President-elect Barack Obama wants to make Afghanistan his top foreign policy priority. However, there are still lingering questions over his real objectives.

Shia constitute 10 to 15 percent of Muslims, but are actually a majority around the oil-rich rim of the Persian Gulf.