BEIJING--A fire in an apartment building in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region has killed 10 people and injured nine, authorities said Friday, in the second major fire accident in the country ...

Xinjiang is home to 10 million Uyghurs ... questioning the official narrative on the Urumqi apartment fire. China defends President Xi Jinping's signature zero-COVID policy as life-saving and ...

If the Congress wins, who will the ‘high command’ back as CM—veteran leader Siddaramaiah or the challenger D K Shivakumar? In this issue, we analyse whether this is a boon or a bane?

Over the past week, protests erupted across China against the government’s stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies after 10 people died in a fire in Ürümqi, China, eliciting responses and comments around ...

A deadly fire last week in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang region, was the catalyst for public anger, with many blaming Covid-19 lockdowns for hampering rescue efforts.

Crowds are protesting in China's Xinjiang region against COVID-19 lockdown measures ... Unrest against the lockdown became even stronger after an apartment fire in Urumqi killed 10 people on Thursday.

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region eradicated absolute poverty in 2020 and is developing through rural revitalization. This video shows how agriculture and tourism have boosted incomes ...

A former judge in the western region of Xinjiang was sacked from his position and expelled from the Communist Party in early June for “being lenient on terrorists suspected of endangering local ...

Nearly every solar power panel sold in the European Union has its origins in China’s oppressed Xinjiang region. The solar industry and Brussels lawmakers argue Europe’s renewable energy push should ...

The New York Times reports: The announcement was made in the morning, and many residents in cities across Xinjiang took the day off... Far West China blog reports that after almost a year of being ...

The series overview is available here. To view the full series, click here. Xinjiang is China’s biggest administrative division, sprawling across 1.6 million square kilometers of some of the ...

Situated in the northwest of China, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was known in China as the Western Territory in ancient times. Its 1.66 million square kilometers represent about one-sixth of ...