The Central Asian great gerbil continues to infest large areas of western China’s Xinjiang Province despite government efforts to cull its numbers.
A new recruiting magazine for al-Qaeda has a two-page spread that lists China’s abuses of Uyghurs in its far-west region of Xinjiang, which the Uyghurs call East Turkestan.
Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng is released from prison, but is still not yet free.
As a Westerner, Bea Roberts has a rare sense of appreciation and understanding of ancient Chinese culture and arts.
At least 21 people died during a showdown between Uyghur muslims and Chinese police in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Province.