BEIJING--A fire in an apartment building in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region has killed 10 people and injured nine, authorities said Friday, in the second major fire accident in the country ...

Chinese authorities should immediately release and drop all charges against everyone detained for participating in the “white ...

Xinjiang is home to 10 million Uyghurs ... questioning the official narrative on the Urumqi apartment fire. China defends President Xi Jinping's signature zero-COVID policy as life-saving and ...

The uprising was triggered in part by a horrific fire in an apartment block in Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, that killed ...

Former OHCHR head Michelle Bachelet released a human rights assessment of Xinjiang ... just an apartment building fire," Kokbore told VOA. Following the fire, citizens across China took to the ...

Crowds are protesting in China's Xinjiang region against COVID-19 lockdown measures ... Unrest against the lockdown became even stronger after an apartment fire in Urumqi killed 10 people on Thursday.

In late November 2022, the Chinese internet was overwhelmed by expressions of rage, grief, and disbelief. The catalyst was a ...

The following year, the Republic of China reabsorbed the region. In 1944, factions within Xinjiang again declared independence, this time under the auspices of the Soviet Union, and created the ...

In the latest attempt to squash human rights and civic freedoms, China has employed extreme digital censorship to conceal ...

Owing to the religious and ethnic commonalities Central Asians have with the Uighur Muslim population, weaving together Xinjiang and the region could conceivably complicate China’s economic ...

The signature dish was a broth made with the two local specialties -- freshwater fish from the nearby Ulungur Lake and lamb ...

In the uber-authoritarian police state that is China ... apartment. Her sister brings them groceries," Steenberg added. A Tight Spot For Astana Anger in Kazakhstan over the plight of the Xinjiang ...