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Cotton acreage in Xinjiang shrinks 19%

Business | Textile
2009-10-26

COTTON acreage in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a key cotton production base in northwestern China, shrank to 1.34 million hectares in 2009, down 19.4 percent from 2008. Cotton output in 2009 is expected...

3 more rioters sentenced to die

National
2009-10-16

THREE more people were sentenced to death yesterday for murders committed during the July riots in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, bringing to nine the number of people facing execution so far for their...

6 receive death penalty, 1 jailed for life after grim Xinjiang riots

National
2009-10-13

SIX men, who were convicted of murder and other crimes in the July 5 riot in Xinjiang, were sentenced to death yesterday after a first-instance trial, and another man was jailed for life. Abdukerim Abduwayit, Gheni...

Xinjiang police foil terrorists' bomb plots

National
2009-9-17

POLICE in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have captured a terror gang along with materials and tools for making explosives, foiling plans to carry out attacks including suicide bombings, security...

Court jails 3 syringe attackers

National
2009-9-13

THREE people were sentenced to up to 15 years in jail yesterday over syringe stabbings that triggered public panic in Urumqi, capital of northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Court hearings on...

Needle felons face harsh penalties

National
2009-9-7

SYRINGE attackers who triggered the latest unrest in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's capital of Urumqi face penalties right up to the death sentence. The city's court, prosecutors' office and police department...

156 Innocent People Died In Riot

National
2009-8-6

AUTHORITIES in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said yesterday that innocent civilians accounted for 156 of the 197 deaths in the Urumqi riot a month ago. Hou Hanmin, spokesman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region...

China flag flies on Australian film site

National
2009-7-27

HACKERS posted a Chinese flag on the Website of an Australian film festival in an escalation of protests against the planned appearance by a separatist the Chinese government blames for the deadly riots in the northwestern...

Xinjiang doubles compensation for bereaved families

National
2009-7-21

NORTHWEST China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region decided to increase compensation by 200,000 yuan (US$29,300) for the families of innocent civilians killed in the July 5 riot in the regional capital Urumqi. Bereaved...

Police shot 12 rioters 'to protect the public'

National
2009-7-20

POLICE shot 12 "mobsters" taking part in the July 5 riot in Urumqi to protect the public, the chairman of the regional government told reporters at the weekend. Three of them died at the scene in the capital of...