China, Maldives pledge closer cooperation on climate change
September 2nd, 2012 - 10:34 pm ICT by IANS
Urmuqi (China), Sep 2 (IANS) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met Maldives President Mohammed Waheed Hassan Sunday and pledged to boost cooperation on climate change between the two nations.Hailing the sound ... Read more...
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Chinese Muslims celebrate Eid
August 19th, 2012 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Aug 19 (IANS) Muslims across China Sunday celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.The northwest province of Qinghai had begun festivities Saturday itself, Xinhua ... Read more...
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24 injured in China quake (Lead)
June 30th, 2012 - 7:16 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, June 30 (IANS) At least 24 people were injured and hundreds of cattle died in collapsed sheds as a 6.6-magnitude quake jolted China's Xinjiang Uygur region Saturday and toppled ... Read more...
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Girl locked in cage with wolves
April 6th, 2012 - 1:49 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 6 (IANS) A Chinese man who put his nine-year-old daughter into a cage with two wolves as part of a bizarre stage show claims it was to build ... Read more...
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12 killed in China riots (Lead)
February 29th, 2012 - 12:04 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, Feb 28 (IANS) A violent mob Tuesday chopped to death at least 10 people in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uygur region, following which police chased the mob and shot dead ... Read more...
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12 killed in China riots
February 28th, 2012 - 10:56 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Feb 28 (IANS) A violent mob Tuesday chopped to death at least 10 people in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uygur region, following which police chased the mob and shot dead ... Read more...
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Zardari woos China’s business houses
September 1st, 2011 - 1:16 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Sep 1 (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari has invited China's industrial giants and large business groups to enjoy the benefits of Pakistan's investment-friendly and incentives-driven policies by investing in ... Read more...
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Zardari to visit China
August 26th, 2011 - 12:38 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 26 (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari will visit China from Aug 30 to Sep 1 to take part in an exposition and meet the Chinese vice premier.Zardari's visit ... Read more...
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Three killed as train hits bus in China
March 24th, 2011 - 3:20 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 24 (IANS) At least three people were killed and dozens injured when a bus dashed across a railway track and was hit by a train Thursday morning in ... Read more...
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‘Post riots, China’s Xinjiang region still remains unstable’
December 25th, 2010 - 2:34 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Dec 25 (ANI): China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which was shaken by a deadly riot last year, still faces many factors that may affect stability, according to one of the top ... Read more...
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24,000 Chinese Haj pilgrims to visit Mecca in 2010
November 2nd, 2010 - 12:22 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, Nov 1 (IANS) Over 24,000 Chinese Muslims will visit Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the Haj pilgrimage this year, Xinhua reported Monday.A total of 11,200 Chinese Muslims have already left for ... Read more...
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China jet makes emergency landing amid bomb scare
July 15th, 2010 - 1:25 pm ICT by ANI
Lanzhou (China), July 15 (ANI): A passenger jet flying from China's restive Xinjiang region to the country's south made an emergency landing on Wednesday night following warnings of a possible bomb aboard. ... Read more...
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China to draft policies for Tibet, Xinjiang’s development this year: Wen Jiabao
March 5th, 2010 - 5:49 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Mar. 5 (ANI): Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday said his government will draft policies this year to boost development in Xinjiang and Tibet as well as other Tibetan-inhabited areas."We will ... Read more...
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Relatives of Briton executed in China slam media, government
December 30th, 2009 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 30 (IANS) Relatives of a Briton executed by China Wednesday blamed the British media, government and human rights campaigners for not pleading his case early or strongly enough.
"This is ... Read more...
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EU condemns China’s execution of ‘mentally ill’ Briton
December 30th, 2009 - 4:14 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Dec 30 (RIA Novosti) The European Union (EU) Tuesday condemned the execution by China of a British man said to be suffering from a mental illness on drug-smuggling charges.
Akmal Shaikh, ... Read more...
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Chinese court confirms British drug smuggler’s death sentence
December 29th, 2009 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Dec 29 (IANS) China's Supreme People's Court Tuesday said that it had approved the death sentence against Akmal Shaikh, a British man who was convicted of smuggling drugs into China.
Shaikh, 53, ... Read more...
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Briton convicted of drug smuggling executed in China (Lead)
December 29th, 2009 - 12:35 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Dec 29 (IANS) A British national convicted of drug smuggling was executed Tuesday in China, despite international pleas for clemency.
Akmal Shaikh, 53, was executed at 10.30 a.m. in Urumqi, in China's ... Read more...
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Chinese city isolated, divided after ethnic killings
December 13th, 2009 - 9:41 am ICT by IANS
By Bill Smith
Beijing, Dec 13 (DPA) Many residents of China's far western city of Urumqi spent the second half of 2009 cut off from the world after the government sent in paramilitary ... Read more...
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No information about 1,000 people arrested during Uighur riots in China
October 21st, 2009 - 4:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 21 (ANI): China is facing calls to provide accurate information about the whereabouts of up to 1,000 people who were detained following the riots between the Uighur minority and the ... Read more...
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Six rioters sentenced to death in China’s Urumqi region
October 13th, 2009 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
Urumqi (China), Oct.13 (ANI): Six people have been sentenced to death for their part in the murderous riots in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjing Uygur autonomous region, that took the lives of ... Read more...
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Terror ring busted in China’s Xijiang province
September 17th, 2009 - 1:17 pm ICT by ANI
Urumqi (Xijiang, China), Sep.17 (ANI): Chinese security forces said they have broken up a terrorist bomb-making operation in Xinjiang in Northwest China.A China Daily report quoted security officials as saying that six ... Read more...
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Syringe attacks continue in Urumqi despite death penalty warning
September 9th, 2009 - 4:21 pm ICT by ANI
Urumqi (China), Sep. 9 (ANI): Despite a death penalty warning, 77 cases of needle attack were reported between Sunday and Monday evenings in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, police ... Read more...
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Further unrest in west China’s Urumqi region following syringe attacks
September 3rd, 2009 - 6:17 pm ICT by ANI
Urumqi (China), Sep 3(ANI): Following a spate of ethnically motivated syringe attacks in China's Xinjiang province, renewed mass demonstrations and violence was reported in the region on Thursday.Thousands of people gathered at ... Read more...
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Xinjiang separatists are doomed to fail, says Chinese President
August 26th, 2009 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI
Uygur (China), Aug. 26 (ANI): Chinese President Hu Jintao, who made his first trip to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region since last month's deadly riot, has warned the separatists that they are ... Read more...
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Pakistan supports China’s stance on Xinjiang : Zardari
August 22nd, 2009 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Aug.22 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has supported China's policies in its insurgency hit Xinjiang region.Zardari, who arrived here on Friday on a four day visit, said Islamabad endorses China's ... Read more...
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Chinese airline plane hijacked in China
August 10th, 2009 - 12:02 am ICT by John Le Fevre
A passenger airplane is reported to have been hijacked in the country’s troubled western region of Xinjang.The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, did not give any details about the hijacking in a ... Read more...
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Xijiang riot suspects trials to be held next month
July 31st, 2009 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, July 31 (ANI): The trials of suspects involved in the deadly July 5 riot in Urumqi are expected to start the middle of August, a source told the China Daily Thursday.The ... Read more...
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Uighur leader seeks Japan’s help for minority in China
July 29th, 2009 - 1:34 pm ICT by IANS
Tokyo, July 29 (DPA) Uighur rights activist Rebiya Kadeer Wednesday sought help from Japanese politicians to request China to release prisoners and dispatch an investigating team.
Kadeer's visit to Japan has already drawn ... Read more...
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Certain ‘elements’ trying to damage Sino-Pak ties: FO
July 10th, 2009 - 6:46 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, July 10 (ANI): Pakistan has said some 'elements' are trying to damage its relations with China by linking Islamabad with the unrest in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi.Addressing a weekly ... Read more...
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Curfew lifted in China’s riot-hit city
July 8th, 2009 - 5:12 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, July 8 (RIA Novosti) Chinese authorities have lifted a curfew in the riot-hit CITY OF Urumqi after order was restored following deadly riots, a spokesman said.
"The curfew was lifted in the ... Read more...
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Rubiya Kadeer And The Chinese Riot Connection
July 6th, 2009 - 6:48 pm ICT by GD
Communal riots does not happen much in China but recently the nation is bearing witness to a huge communal riot. It has been reported that around 80 people have been injured and ... Read more...
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Death toll in China highway accident rises to 25 (Lead)
August 13th, 2008 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
Xinhua
Rumqi (China), Aug 13 (Xinhua) The toll in a highway accident in northwest China Tuesday rose to 25, said authorities in Xinjiang region Wednesday. Seventeen people were killed on the spot, police ... Read more...
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Paralympic torch will be restricted to Chinese mainland
June 26th, 2008 - 2:47 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi , June 26 (ANI): The Beijing Olympic Games organisers (BOCOG) have dropped the overseas leg of the Paralympic torch relay because of the devastating Sichuan earthquake.The torch was to ... Read more...
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Olympic torch relay enters China’s ethnically divided far west
June 17th, 2008 - 5:39 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Beijing, June 17 (DPA) An Olympic torch relay leg was held in China's ethnically divided far western region of Xinjiang Tuesday, as exiled Uighurs alleged that the government had vetted spectators and ... Read more...
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Musharraf to leave for China on Thursday
April 9th, 2008 - 1:37 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, Apr.9 (ANI): Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will undertake a six-day official visit of China from Thursday.
During his visit, Musharraf will meet President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, and other Chinese ... Read more...
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