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China forcing Uyghurs, other minorities into manual labour, shows BBC researchAccording to the documents seen by the BBC, more than half a million workers from minority groups are forced to pick cotton in a coercive e...- 5.7-magnitude quake hits China's northwestThe earthquake hit Kuqa County in Aksu Prefecture at 6:11 pm Beijing time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre.
- China asks Xinjiang residents to surrender passport to "maintain social order"All citizens in Aksu prefecture are required to hand their passports - private or official - to local police stations, the daily reported q...
- 'Foreign extremists making inroads into China's Xinjiang'The extremists' influence is also felt in some other parts of the Xinjiang autonomous region, the home of over 11 million Uygur Muslims.
- China clamps down on terror groups, offers amnesty to militantsAuthorities in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region issued a joint statement last night calling for law-breakers who are invol...
- 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits parts of China's XinjiangA strong earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region this morning but no casualties were reported.
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