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A little light relief from the poisoned babies, mudslides and collapsing banks. Apparrently, one of these guys even tried chewing on a piece of the rock to figure out what it was.

Central Asia News.Net Monday 15th September, 2008 Beijing, Sep 15 Three Chinese tourists have bought a 274-kg piece of depleted uranium and brought it home from Kyrgyzstan as a souvenir, the China Daily ...

Officials have tightened controls over mosques and religious practice in China's restive Xinjiang region for the ongoing Ramadan festival, according to exiled Uighurs and local government notices seen on ...

Shops opened. Taxis ran on streets. The bomb-shocked county in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region resumed normal life on Monday.

China on Monday said a 15-year-old girl who was treated in hospital for injuries was a suspect in a series of terrorist attacks that left 12 people dead in its central Asian region of Xinjiang.

Two persons were known to have been killed in a series of explosions that rocked Kuqa county in China's remote Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region early Sunday morning, local sources said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties. The cause of the blasts is not yet known.

Nearly 4,000 people have been stranded on four trains since early Tuesday as a result of strong winds and sandstorms in the southern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Not so very far from yesterday's bombing that killed 16 police officers, in a region subject to a recent Chinese crackdown to protect the Olympics, Martin Ma manages a program to improve the workplace ...

Speeding down a remote desert highway, Yusup reflects on life as one of China's eight million ethnic Muslim Uighurs and his tone turns as bleak as the sun-fried landscape.

China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday refuted a report by an overseas human rights group on the demolition of a mosque in the northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, calling it "seriously erroneous". The ...

A court in China s far-western region of Xinjiang has sentenced five Muslim clerics to seven years in prison for illegally organizing haj pilgrimages to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the World Uighur Congress said ...

Chinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.

“We were stranded for seven hours and ended up with no water”

Snap blizzard hits northwest, freezing transport services http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=356453&type=National Snap blizzard hits northwest, freezing transport services Pedestrians walk on the ... via Shanghai Daily

“The wind swept sand from the Tarim Basin to form a dusty blanket over Kashi, Aksu and several other places on the southern rim of the Basin”

A SANDSTORM in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region which began last Friday has led to the cancelation of 27 flights and the postponement of another 10, the local civil aviation authority said ... via Shanghai Daily

Five people were killed and 12 others injured on Wednesday when a bus collided with a passenger van in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local police said. via Xinhuanet

Chinese meteorological officials and experts convened on Friday in Beijing to plan this year's meteorological work, expecting more meteorological bureaus alerts and calling for improved weather service amidst ... via Xinhuanet

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