Xinjiang party committee approves unspecified administrative-division matter
The regional party newspaper reported the vote without naming the areas or the changes involved.
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Turkey advertises Xinjiang government scholarships as Beijing denounces its Turkic-world teaching materials
The education ministry’s Nov. 2 notice sends Turkish students to seven universities in the Uyghur region. The pages it links to are years out of date or belong to other programs, some of them open only to Central Asian citizens.
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Thai rights groups urge government not to return two pardoned Uyghur men to China
Three Thai networks demand access to the men and resettlement in a third country, as a former MP says China asked for them in August and the National Security Council may meet next week.
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New Starbucks in China stands wall to wall with building seized from Uyghur family over terrorism charge
A Chinese court seized a Uyghur family’s company over a terrorism charge and auctioned it in 2019 to the building’s tenant. Seven years later, Starbucks opened a flagship, built in cooperation with local state-owned capital, on the building’s former driveway in Urumqi.
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