Cape Town - When living in Beijing, we often frequented a restaurant with cuisine from Xinjiang, close to the university. This cuisine is unique, and for us it was an experience to marvel at the ...

Like the rest of the country, China’s far-western Xinjiang Province is slowly starting to open up after months of near-total lockdown meant to halt the spread of Covid-19. For the past six years, ...

Uyghurs who live outside Xinjiang must register with local police and report to an officer on a regular basis, their moves tracked and monitored. Many Uyghurs living in Xinjiang aren’t allowed to ...

Kong Feifei, a deputy to the NPC and Deputy General Manager of Ili Cultural Tourism Industry Group Co. Ltd. (left) At China's 2026 two sessions, high-quality integration of cultur ...

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is leveraging its long snow season and quality snow to develop ice-and-snow tourism. [Photo provided by the regional culture and tourism department ...

The first time I witnessed safety measures was at a small hotel near Urumqi airport. There was a security gate at the entrance, with a set of anti-riot armor placed next to it. As you step through, ...

We survived the metal detector and emerged with ourselves and our bags intact on the other side of the X-ray machine. Yet an alarm somewhere must have sounded within a couple of seconds of us entering ...

XINJIANG, China (AP) — The razor wire that once ringed public buildings in China’s far northwestern Xinjiang region is nearly all gone. Gone, too, are the middle school uniforms in military camouflage ...

Tour guides stand in front of a large photo depicting different ethnic groups in Xinjiang at the Exhibition of the Fight Against Terrorism and Extremism in Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang ...

Four years after Beijing launched a brutal crackdown that swept up to a million or more Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities into detention camps and prisons, its control of China's far west ...