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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...

21 for trial over July riot in Urumqi

National
2009-9-26

THE procuratorate of Urumqi yesterday brought charges against 21 suspects in July's riot. The riot in the capital of northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region left 197 people dead and more than 1,600...

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...

Xinjiang police capture terrorist group

National
2009-9-16

POLICE in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have captured a terrorist group together with materials and tools to make explosives, China's anti-terrorist authorities announced today. Six suspects, including ringleaders...

75 held in Urumqi needle scare

National
2009-9-16

SEVENTY-FIVE suspects allegedly involved in recent syringe attacks in Urumqi had been detained as of yesterday, said a police officer in the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The suspects were linked...

Syringe victims receive 'all clear'

National
2009-9-14

TESTS of victims' samples found no dangerous viruses or chemicals involved in the wake of a string of bizarre syringe stabbings in Urumqi, capital of China's far western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a military...

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...

Trio gets up to 15 years in jail over needle attacks in Urumqi

National
2009-9-12

THREE suspects were sentenced to up to 15 years in jail today over syringe stabbings that triggered public scare in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Court hearings on two...