EU envoys agree first China sanctions since 1989
The European Union agreed on Wednesday to blacklist Chinese officials for human rights abuses, two diplomats said, the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU...
Uighurs
Western countries rebuke China at UN for detention of Uighurs
Nearly two dozen countries have called on China to halt its mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang region, the first such joint move on the...
West calls on China to close Uighur detention camps
Western countries including Canada, France and Germany called on China on Tuesday to close down detention camps, which activists say hold 1 million Uighurs and...
China and the Uighurs
By Gwynne Dyer TWO weeks ago Professor Gay McDougall, co-chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, alleged that up to a...
Thai probe hits hurdle; no bomb match to suspects’ DNA
By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Martin Petty Forensic tests on two suspects have failed to find a link to the site of Thailand’s deadliest bomb attack,...
Thai police hunt two bombing suspects after weekend raids (Updated)
By Pairat Temphairojana and Panarat Thepgumpanat Police probing Thailand’s deadliest bombing issued arrest warrants on Monday for two suspects after a second weekend raid on...
Thai police look into Turkish connection in Bangkok blast
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat Thai police said on Thursday they were looking at arrivals of Turkish nationals in the days before a...
Uighur migrants held in Thailand for 11 months take case to court
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre A Thai court will decide this month whether to release 17 Uighurs from the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, including 13...
China arrests 10 Turks who may have helped terror suspects
By John Ruwitch Police in Shanghai have arrested 10 Turkish nationals suspected of supplying fake passports to ethnic Uighurs from China’s far-western region of Xinjiang...
More violence in China’s Xinjiang after deadly attack
By Michael Martina Western tourists saw a body lying in a pool of blood in a major city in China’s violence-prone Xinjiang province on Wednesday,...
China security chief blames Uighur Islamists for Tiananmen attack
By Megha Rajagopalan China’s domestic security chief believes a fatal vehicle crash in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in which five died was planned by a Muslim...
China suspects Tiananmen crash a suicide attack – sources
By Benjamin Kang Lim and Michael Martina Chinese authorities suspect suicide attackers drove the vehicle that ploughed into pedestrians at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and set...