French journalist has to quit China after article on troubled Xinjiang
By Sui-Lee Wee A French journalist is being forced to leave China after the government said it would not renew her press credentials for the...
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China says 28 foreign-led ‘terrorists’ killed after attack on mine
By Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard Chinese security forces in the far western region of Xinjiang killed 28 ‘terrorists’ from a group that carried out...
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,...
Thailand keeps suspected Uighurs in custody amid Turkey-China tug-of-war
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre A family of 17 suspected Uighur Muslims at the centre of a diplomatic tug-of-war between Turkey and China will remain in...
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...
Draft Chinese law paves way for counter-terror operations abroad
By Michael Martina China is close to approving a law that will create a legal framework for sending troops abroad on counter-terrorism missions, as Beijing...
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...
China urges US to ‘correct ways’ after torture report
By Ben Blanchard China urged the United States on Wednesday to “correct its ways”, after the US Senate said in a report the CIA misled...
Hong Kong protests face test of stamina as city returns to work
By John Ruwitch and Donny Kwok Hong Kong started to return to work on Monday after more than a week of pro-democracy protests disrupted the...
Hong Kong student activists rally ahead of threatened blockade
By Donny Kwok and Venus Wu Hong Kong students gathered in the heart of the city for a second day on Wednesday ahead of a...
Chinese court jails Uighur scholar for life for separatism
By Sui-Lee Wee A Chinese court on Tuesday jailed for life the country’s most prominent advocate for the rights of Muslim Uighur people, a sentence...
Three get death for China train station attack
By Ben Blanchard A Chinese court sentenced three people to death and one to life in prison on Friday for an attack at a train...
China: Islamist militants kill pro-Beijing imam in Xinjiang
By Michael Martina and Ben Blanchard Three suspected Islamist militants armed with knives and axes killed the imam of China’s biggest mosque in the western...
Biggest attack in years kills 31 in China’s troubled Xinjiang (Updated)
By Michael Martina Explosives hurled from two vehicles which ploughed into an open market in China’s troubled Xinjiang region killed 31 people on Thursday, state media...
Chinese police kill eight in Xinjiang “Terrorist Attack”
Chinese police shot dead eight people during a “terrorist attack” in the western region of Xinjiang on Monday, the government said, raising the death toll...
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...