Urumqi, China News

China's Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday said that foot-and-mouth disease infections have been confirmed in cattle in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Twenty-four-year-old Bai Lu was just four days into her new job as a journalist at the Urumqi Evening Post when she was killed.

Investigators found no foreign links to extremist violence in northwestern China's Xinjiang region last week in which 25 people died, state media said Thursday, diverging from past claims that attacks there are orchestrated overseas.

Ahmetjon Wubuli doesn't want to remember how six of his colleagues were killed by a terrorist group, but the horrors keep coming back.

URUMQI, China -- Valentina, an energetic and sociable Kazakh woman of around 50 years of age, is a former engineer and cartographer.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

The perpetrators of deadly violence last week in China's Xinjiang region held secret Quran study sessions and possessed extremist religious literature, authorities said Tuesday, accusations likely to be used by Beijing as justification for its strict rules on Islam in the vast northwestern territory.

BEIJING Chinese authorities say the perpetrators of last week's deadly violence in Xinjiang held secret Koran study sessions and possessed flags inscribed with Jihadi slogans and extremist religious literature.

Relatives of victims killed by terrorists on April 23 are overwhelmed by grief during a memorial in Kashgar, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Monday.

China arrested more "terrorists" in the ethnically divided region of Xinjiang, where violence last week killed 21 people, state media says, while a rights group dismissed terrorism claims.

A violent clash in Xinjiang that left 21 people dead last week exposed a lack of crisis awareness among local officials and their inability to deal with ethnic and religious strife, analysts said.

Envoy urged to press Uyghur rights By Radio Free Asia An exiled rights group has called on the US envoy to China to raise human rights violations against the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority with the government in Beijing, two days after 21 people were killed in the worst episode of violence in the restive Xinjiang region in nearly four years.

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., China's biggest maker of wind turbines, said first-quarter profit rose more than fivefold as cost cuts countered a decline in sales.

Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China School of Life Sciences, Centre for Cell and Developmental Biology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China Translation inhibition is a major but poorly ... (more)

A violent clash between authorities and assailants described as a terrorist gang left 21 people dead in China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, the local government said Wednesday.

BEIJING: The local government in China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang said Wednesday that a clash between authorities and assailants left 21 people dead in what it described as an act of terrorism.

BEIJING: Twenty-one people, including police officers and social workers, were killed in violent clashes in China's ethnically-divided western region of Xinjiang, a local official said Wednesday.

The death of a young female journalist on the site of a politically charged infrastructure project in Xinjiang Province earlier this month has drawn the scrutiny of netizens , according to David Bandurski of the China Media Project: The Tianzi Road Project is an important source of political capital for local Party leaders in Xinjiang and there has ... (more)