Urumqi
latest news & developments‘I asked them to find my husband, but no one dared to go outside’
Dong Yuanyuan was a happy newlywed until ethnic hatred spilled over into violence in China’s far west. She is recovering: her husband is missing.
Clinging to life in the People’s Hospital
Four-year-old Aliya lay on a trolley, blinking up at the commotion, amid scores of victims who had spilled out of the wards into the corridors.
China police fan out to halt Xinjiang unrest
Police fanned out in the far-flung Chinese city of Urumqi on Wednesday to try to stifle unrest days after 156 people were killed in ethnic violence.
Xinjiang protests resume as death toll hits 156
Hundreds of Uighur clashed with police in the capital of China’s Muslim region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, two days after ethnic unrest left 156 dead.
China says 140 killed in Xinjiang unrest
China said a riot that shook Xinjiang on Sunday killed 140 people and the government called the ethnic unrest a plot against its power.