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In May 2019, Xinjiang Television signed a strategic cooperation and technical assistance agreement with Huawei. [1] So far, it is the only TV channel using a Turkic language based in a communist country , but not within former- eastern bloc and Soviet territory.
Its service covers 12 of Xinjiang's 14 prefectures, as well as the regional capital of Ürümqi.On 1 July 2008, Bingtuan Satellite Television was overhauled with a new focus on music programs, in an effort to become the top youth music channel in China.
The Shaoguan incident (Chinese: 韶关事件) was a civil disturbance which took place overnight on 25–26 June 2009 in Guangdong, China.A violent dispute erupted between migrant Uyghurs and Han Chinese workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan as a result of false allegations of the sexual assault of a Han Chinese woman.
U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Monday called on China to implement recommendations to amend laws that violate fundamental rights, including in the Xinjiang and Tibet regions. Rights groups ...
Gülnezer was born on 2 May 1992 in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China and has Uyghur ethnicity. [2] She attended Xinjiang Arts University, majoring in dancing when she was young. At the age of 16, she participated in a modeling contest where she took home the award for the "Most Photogenic". Gülnezer auditioned for the Beijing Film Academy in 2011.
The region is currently administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Within the movement, there is widespread support for the region to be renamed, since "Xinjiang" (meaning "new territory" in Chinese) is seen by independence activists as a colonial name. "East Turkestan" is the best-known ...
The 2015 Aksu colliery attack, also known as the Baicheng incident [4] took place on 18 September 2015, when a group of separatists, suspected to be Uyghurs, [5] attacked workers and security guards at a coal mine in Baicheng County in Aksu, Xinjiang, leaving at least 16 dead and 18 wounded according to government sources, with other estimates reaching as high as 50 dead and 50 wounded.
According to a police investigation, a number of participants in the demonstration and riots had arrived from Kashgar and Hotan. [10] Some of the participants in the incident fled from China to Afghanistan and Pakistan, but were detained by the U.S. military and handed over to the Pakistani government during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and were imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay detention camp ...