Hou Hanmin

Knife attack in China's Xinjiang kills 4

Several knife-wielding attackers killed four people and wounded eight others in China's ethnically-divided western region of Xinjiang, according to a government official.
 

Knife attack in China's Xinjiang kills 4

Several knife-wielding attackers killed four people and wounded eight others in China's ethnically-divided western region of Xinjiang, according to a government official.
 

China says plane hijack attempt thwarted

Six members of China's Uighur minority tried to hijack a plane flying from a restive city in the far-western Xinjiang region on Friday but crew members and passengers thwarted them, authorities said.
 

Western China city seeks to banish Muslim veil

BEIJING (Reuters) - A city in heavily Muslim far western China has begun a campaign to discourage veils and growing long beards in a bid to "dilute religious consciousness," media reports said Thursday.
 

China sentences four to death over Xinjiang attacks

China sentenced to death four members of the Uighur minority over deadly attacks in restive Xinjiang, state media said Thursday, but activists alleged the condemned had not received a fair trial.
 

Deadly violence hits China's restive Xinjiang

Knife-wielding attackers killed 13 people in China's Xinjiang region and another five were shot dead by police as a wave of violence swept the ethnically-torn area, state media and officials said Sunday.
 

China blames terrorists for attack in Xinjiang

BEIJING (Reuters) - A clash at a police station that left at least four people dead in western China's restive Xinjiang region was "a terrorist attack," a government official said on Tuesday, but an exile Uighur group accused police of firing on peaceful protesters.
 

China blames "terrorists" for attack in Xinjiang: report

BEIJING (Reuters) - A clash at a police station that left at least four people dead in western China's restive Xinjiang region was "an organised terrorist attack," a government official was quoted saying in state media on Tuesday.
 

Police arrest 4 in bombing in restive west China

Police arrest 4 in bomb attack in China's restive Muslim far west. Police have arrested four suspects in a deadly bomb attack on police auxiliary forces last week, a government spokeswoman said Wednesday, in the latest violence in China's restive Muslim far west.
 

Official: Attack in western China targeted police

Official: Bomb attack in restive far-western China targeted security forces on patrol. Attackers who set off explosives in a restive region of far-western China that killed seven people and wounded 14 others were targeting security forces, the local government said Friday.
 

China: two suspects in Xinjiang blast, one dead

Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region believe two suspects, a man and a woman, were behind an explosion that killed seven people and injured 14 others, state media reported Friday.
 

China: two suspects in Xinjiang blast, one dead

Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region believe two suspects, a man and a woman, were behind an explosion that killed seven people and injured 14 others, state media reported Friday.
 

Attack on military police kills 7 in Xinjiang, China

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - Seven Chinese military police were killed on Thursday when a member of the Uighur minority rammed them with an explosives-laden vehicle in the Xinjiang border region, long the scene of ethnic tension and violence.
 

Explosion in China's restive Xinjiang kills seven

Seven people were killed Thursday when a man drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a crowd and it blew up in China's Xinjiang region, the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year, an official said.
 

Attack kills 7 in China's restive Xinjiang

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - A member of China's restive Uighur minority killed seven people on Thursday in an explosion in far western Xinjiang, an official said, a region which has long been the scene of ethnic tension and occasional violence.
 

Attack kills 7 in China's restive Xinjiang

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - A member of China's restive Uighur minority killed seven people on Thursday in an explosion in far western Xinjiang, an official said, a region which has long been the scene of ethnic tension and occasional violence.
 

Explosion in China's restive Xinjiang kills seven

Seven people were killed Thursday when a man drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a crowd and it blew up in China's Xinjiang region, the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year, an official said.
 

Explosion in China's restive Xinjiang kills seven

Seven people were killed Thursday when a man drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a crowd and it blew up in China's Xinjiang region, the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year, an official said.
 

Explosion in China's restive Xinjiang kills seven

Seven people were killed in an explosion on Thursday in China's restive Xinjiang region, the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year, a government spokeswoman said.
 

China sentences five more to death for Xinjiang riot

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court sentenced five more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting earlier this year in Urumqi, the capital of far western Xinjiang region, a local government spokeswoman said on Thursday.