Chinese developers are preparing to begin work on two major hydropower dams to be built on the Mekong River in Laos, projects government officials hope will bring the impoverished country closer to its goal of become the battery of Southeast Asia. But compensation and relocation packages for villagers affected by the massive infrastructure projects are
The 12-year old Uyghur girl, who now lives in the U.S. state of Virginia, was about seven years old and starting to absorb a bit more knowledge when she first learned about the repression of Uyghurs in their homeland northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. As she got older, her mother would tell her more and more
” Ramadan procedures are being taken,” stated a village cop in Kashgars Tokkuzak (Toukezhake) municipality. Celebrations religious policy. The party never stated to eliminate faith, however to Sinicize it.” ” This system is developed to avoid religious beliefs to have unfavorable results on childrens minds,” he stated. A cadre from the village is registering individuals
Forbiding cash transfers China has actually been tracking Tibetans in Tibet communicating with those in exile to shut down the circulation of information to the outside world, according to sources inside Tibet who provide details to neighborhoods abroad. The Chinese government also has actually started prohibiting the transfer of cash from Tibetans in the TAR
The World Banks economic sector lending arm provided nearly half a billion dollars to 4 Chinese companies accused of using Uyghur forced labor in Chinas far-western Xinjiang area, according to an investigative report released Thursday. The International Financial Corporation (IFC) has a number of investments in the region, where mainly Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic
A Chinese police surveillance unit is running, apparently for the very first time, inside a Buddhist monastery as part of a restored crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist spiritual organizations, a Tibetan with knowledge of the situation said. Officers were installed this year at the Palyul Thartang Gonchen Monastery in Qinghai provinces Golog (in Chinese, Guoluo) Tibetan
Massive clean-up operation. In the consequences of the crackdown, a short article titled “Lets discover the terrorist mask of East Turkistan terrorists” released by Chinas main Xinhua news firm called the demonstrators, “insurgents.”. Following the event, the Chinese government used the demonstration as a pretext to perform a year-long massive “clean-up operation” throughout Xinjiang under
Adil went to Chinese schools in Xinjiang and studied in Russia in the 1990s, Abduweli said. Adils father likewise was a loyal civil servant of the Chinese in the Kashgar prefecture government. Abduweli also said that Adil is related to him. To validate Adils detention, RFA called the Saybagh district workplace of the Urumqi Municipal
A Chinese-made tunnel boring maker, in a file picture by Xinhua News Agency. ,” he stated. ” It might be that they want to do agriculture or industry, or possibly some mining or there are minerals. Presently, this location is a dry desert area, so theres no water.” A deceptive 500-kilometer-long watering job China is
Eleven Tibetans beaten and jailed by Chinese authorities in January for spreading news of the damage of a 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and lots of prayer wheels in southwestern Chinas Sichuan province have actually been sent out to labor camps in the region, Tibetans with knowledge of the scenario said Friday. Monks Tashi Dorjee, Tsering Samdup,
