On June 9, 2025, in Xinjiang, China, @Ersen shared a video of an unexpected soaking. In the video, rain is pouring outside as ...

The Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, western China, are living in one of the most heavily-policed and oppressive states in the world. This map helps explain why.

A Chinese-born Kazakh activist is preparing to register a political party in Kazakhstan to counter Beijing's growing influence in the region.

Authorities in China's western Xinjiang region opened up some neighbourhoods in the capital Urumqi on Saturday after residents held extraordinary late-night demonstrations against the city's "zero ...

In the U.S., China’s far western Xinjiang region is often associated with detention camps and a vast network of security checkpoints to control Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities. In ...

URUMQI, China—About a decade ago, some Western companies answered Beijing’s calls to invest in Xinjiang, an underdeveloped region in the country’s remote west. Some were drawn by the natural ...

Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have been sent to re-education camps in China since 2017. Today, the repression continues, but less conspicuously. The Xinjiang region appears to be in a ...

Xinjiang stands out as a popular destination for both domestic and international travelers especially in the wake of COVID-19 as the domestic tourism market embraces a bounce back , Wang said.

Xinjiang Tianshan comprises four components—Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke and Bogda— that total 606,833 hectares. They are part of the Tianshan mountain system of Central Asia, one of the ...

Facebook was banned in China in 2009 — although this does not include Hong Kong or Macau — as part of a government crackdown against activists in Xinjiang province, Time reported in 2022.

Nurlan Kokteubai, a former schoolteacher who spent seven months in a camp in Xinjiang, joined the party. He will do anything, he said, to draw more attention to the plight of Chinese-born Kazakhs.