Urumqi, China News

The Chinese government's latest campaign against pornography on the Internet and through mobile WAP sites will continue through May next year, with an emphasis on breaking the business that support the sites, the Xinhua news agency said Wednesday.

Beijing, Dec 13 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 police, imposed curfews and suspended most internet and some telephone services.

China is seeking to enhance its fence against separatists both home and abroad as President Hu Jintao made a visit to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan this weekend.

ASTANA/KAZAKHSTAN: Chinaa s proper handling of the Xinjiang Urumqi July 5 riot and its joint efforts with Central Asian countries on combating a oethree evil forcesa has not only been conducive for the stability in Xinjiang, but also benefit Kazakhstan, said the countrya s President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Putin signals his intent to run again for president MOSCOW - Wagging his pen and gazing directly into the camera, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin sent his strongest signal yet Thursday that he plans to return to Russia's presidency, telling millions of TV viewers that he will consider running in 2012.

URUMQI: Authorities in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have organized a workshop to improve emergency response for the region's top officials.

China on Thursday sentenced another five people to death over July's riots in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, state media reported.

China's supreme court must carefully review reported death sentences imposed today on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of northwest China.

Three people were sentenced to death for murder and other crimes committed in and after the July 5 riot in Urumqi, capital of west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Friday.

Five more have been sentenced to death for their involvement in the bloody riots in the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

A Chinese court sentenced five more people to death Thursday for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic riots that rocked the western region of Xinjiang in July.

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Tens of thousands of Muslims lined the plaza in front of the Idkah Mosque at sunrise yesterday, as they have done every year on this most important day of the year, Eid ul- Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.

In my November 5, 2009 podcast, " Reflections on Social Media, School Change, 21st Century Learning Skills, and China " I addressed some of the recent challenges the Chinese government has faced in maintaining tight control over its citizens' abilities to organize as well as protest in Xinjiang , known formally as the "Uyghur Autonomous Region." ...

German police have raided the homes of four Chinese nationals alleged to have spied on Muslim Uighurs living in Munich.

While thousands across Europe celebrate the destruction of the Berlin wall 20 years ago, across the world, China has executed nine men, for committing crimes during Julya s riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjain region.

During a class of Virtue and Life on Nov. 4, 2009, Yedos glues the a triplet colors of red, yellow, and green leaves onto a white paper, and draws inter-strip patterns of blue and black, by which Yedos composes a work known as Story in Autumn.

In the early hours of November 18 in the cold weather of early winter, over 30 astronomy enthusiasts organized by China Science and Technology Museum came into close contact with the Leonid meteor shower at Huairou Solar Observing Station, a National Astronomical Observatory.

An auto store restored full-scale business Wednesday after it was burnt down in the deadly riot here more than four months ago.

A suspect in the killing of a human rights lawyer and a journalist has confessed to the crime, his lawyer said Friday.