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3 security staff killed in attack

National
2008-8-13

THREE security staff were killed and another injured yesterday in an attack at a road checkpoint near Kashi City in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The attack occurred about 9am in Yamanya...

Truck and explosives attack kills 16 officers

National
2008-8-5

ATTACKERS drove a dump truck into a group of policemen and threw explosives at them, killing at least 16 officers yesterday morning in Kashi City in western China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The two attackers...

Death toll in oil tank blast rises to 7

National
2008-7-4

THE death toll in last month's oil tank blast in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has risen to seven after two workers previously reported missing were confirmed dead yesterday. Zhou Qing,...

Fatal bus crash

National
2007-11-13

SIX people were killed and 31 injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, officials said yesterday. The fatalities were all on the long-distance coach,...

US$15m aid for Kabul

National
2003-5-28

THE Chinese government yesterday pledged US$16 million in assistance for reconstruction of war-ravaged Afghanistan.

China supports Afghans

National
2002-1-24

PREMIER Zhu Rongji reiterated in Beijing yesterday that China opposes terrorism in any form.

Evidence of Han in Xinjiang

National
1999-12-29

A NEWLY discovered Buddhist grotto in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region offers proof that the Muslim-inhabited area was under Chinese rule 1,300 years ago, archaeologists say.