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URUMQI, China — Attackers hurled bombs from two SUVs that plowed through shoppers at a busy street market in China’s volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, killing 31 people and wounding more than 90. [1]

The quake brought homes crashing down and caused other significant damage, sending people running into the street for safety, state news agency Xinhua said/Photo: AFP AFP-At least 111 people were killed when an earthquake collapsed buildings in north... [2]

BEIJING — Students and civil servants in China’s Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. [3]

BEIJING — A mob armed with knives and axes rampaged through part of China’s volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang and police responded with gunfire, leaving dozens of people dead in the latest violence blamed on Islamic militants, state media repo... [4]

Editor's note: Pseudonyms are used in this story to protect the privacy of people affected by the disease in Yanchangbao. [5]

Yuqing Xing is a professor of economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. [7]

James Borton is a nonresident senior fellow at Johns Hopkins Strategic Advanced International Studies Foreign Policy Institute and the author of "Harvesting the Waves: How Blue Parks Shape Policy, Politics, and Peacebuilding in the South China Sea." ... [8]

Hao Nan is a research fellow with the Charhar Institute and a fellow (2024-2025) with the Arms Control Negotiation Academy. [9]

Sources
[1] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-05-23 · 75% match

Dozens Killed in Market Attack in Northwest China

URUMQI, China — Attackers hurled bombs from two SUVs that plowed through shoppers at a busy street market in China’s volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, killing 31 people and wounding more than 90.

[2] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2023-12-19 · 75% match

More than 110 dead in northwest China earthquake

The quake brought homes crashing down and caused other significant damage, sending people running into the street for safety, state news agency Xinhua said/Photo: AFP AFP-At least 111 people were killed when an earthquake collapsed buildings in north

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-07-03 · 75% match

China Bans Ramadan Fast in Muslim Northwest

BEIJING — Students and civil servants in China’s Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered to avoid taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-07-30 · 75% match

China Reports Deadly Attacks by Militants in Northwest

BEIJING — A mob armed with knives and axes rampaged through part of China’s volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang and police responded with gunfire, leaving dozens of people dead in the latest violence blamed on Islamic militants, state media repo

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-09-15 · 75% match

China's quiet brucellosis outbreak sickens thousands in northwest

Editor's note: Pseudonyms are used in this story to protect the privacy of people affected by the disease in Yanchangbao.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-02-18 · 75% match

Rock climbers lead way to China's new mountain playground

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-11-13 · 50% match

China won the first round of the Sino-US trade war

Yuqing Xing is a professor of economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-09-24 · 47% match

Beijing's greenwashing of the South China Sea

James Borton is a nonresident senior fellow at Johns Hopkins Strategic Advanced International Studies Foreign Policy Institute and the author of "Harvesting the Waves: How Blue Parks Shape Policy, Politics, and Peacebuilding in the South China Sea."

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-04-22 · 45% match

China looks beyond the US with new chief trade negotiator

Hao Nan is a research fellow with the Charhar Institute and a fellow (2024-2025) with the Arms Control Negotiation Academy.

[10] MM english.news.cn · 75% match

1st desert expressway in Ningxia opens to traffic

Aerial photo taken on Dec. 29, 2021 shows the Qingtongxia-Zhongwei section of the Wuhai-Maqin expressway in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The Qingtongxia-Zhongwei section in Ningxia of the Wuhai-Maqin express

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