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Lu Guang holding his Henri Nannen Award in 2008 in Hamburg, Germany.

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Award-Winning Chinese Photojournalist Missing While Visiting The Country, Wife Says

10:44am November 27, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

Lu Guang, a resident of New York, was invited to the heavily controlled region of Xinjiang in October. His wife Xu Xiaoli says she last heard from him Nov. 3. and that national security took him away.

Rhino horns are prized in Asian countries and can garner tens of thousands of dollars per pound. Wildlife conservationists argue that the appetite for the endangered species' appendage in legal and illegal markets has decimated the population across Afric

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Sotheby's and Bonhams Bow To Pressure, Ban The Sale of Rhino Horn Artifacts

6:42pm November 26, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Both companies announced they are canceling separate auctions featuring antique carvings made of the endangered species' horns. The sales would have taken place in Hong Kong this week.

A Pakistani ranger stands in front of a damaged gate at the Chinese consulate after an attack in Karachi on Friday.

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Militants, Police Killed In Failed Attack On Chinese Consulate In Karachi

9:58am November 23, 2018

by Diaa Hadid

At least seven people were killed in the attack, but none of the 21 Chinese nationals in the compound were harmed. In a separate attack in northwest Pakistan, dozens were killed in an open-air market.

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An ethnic Kazakh woman tried to cancel her Chinese citizenship after she married and moved to Kazakhstan. When she crossed back into China last year, the problems began.

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'They Ordered Me To Get An Abortion': A Chinese Woman's Ordeal In Xinjiang

7:01am November 23, 2018

by Rob Schmitz

An ethnic Kazakh Chinese woman says Chinese authorities in Xinjiang forced her to undergo an abortion. Government minders were assigned to monitor her at home. Finally, she left China for Kazakhstan.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) shakes hands with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after a guest book signing at the Malacañang presidential palace in Manila on Tuesday. Duterte called Xi's visit to longtime U.S. ally the Philippines a "milestone

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Will Political Strains Pull The China-Philippines Cozy Relationship Off Course?

10:12pm November 22, 2018

by Julie McCarthy

China's leader seeks to bring an old U.S. ally into his sphere. But the Philipine people are sceptical that China will deliver on its promise of billions of dollars in aid.

Demonstrators hold banners in support of workers at the Jasic Technology factory in Shenzhen, in China's Guangdong province, on Aug. 6.

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In China, The Communist Party's Latest, Unlikely Target: Young Marxists

10:52am November 21, 2018

by Rob Schmitz

Chinese authorities are cracking down on student activists, exposing a paradox between a state founded on Marxist principles and the young people it calls upon to carry them out.

Mir, a Pakistani man who used to live in Xinjiang, China, clutches the hands of his two daughters. Since Chinese authorities detained his wife, he's been raising their two girls alone. "My mind just won't work," he says. "I sound incoherent, I can't think

'My Family Has Been Broken': Pakistanis Fear For Uighur Wives Held In China

5:05am November 15, 2018

Rights groups estimate as many as 1 million Uighurs are detained in Chinese camps, with the aim of stripping away their ethnic identity, suppressing their Muslim faith and ensuring loyalty to China.

The circles on the map pinpoint the location of thousands of Chinese-funded development projects. The bigger the circle, the bigger the investment. The largest circles represent projects in the multibillion-dollar range.

China's Building Spree In Poor Nations: Does It Really Help The Local Economy?

3:39pm November 13, 2018

by Joanne Lu

There are a lot of state secrets when it comes to the billions of dollars worth of roads, hospitals and more. Satellite images of night lights may offer some insights into their value.

Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, a city in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, in 2017. Xinjiang authorities have detained members of the Uighur ethnic minority, who are largely Muslim, and held them in camps the autho

Ex-Detainee Describes Torture In China's Xinjiang Re-Education Camp

12:50pm November 13, 2018

by Rob Schmitz

"They made me wear what they called 'iron clothes,'" the man tells NPR, describing a 50-pound metal suit he was forced to wear for 12 hours. When he returned home, people were afraid to speak to him.

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Kalida Akytkhan, pictured with her son Parkhat Rakhymbergen, has two sons and two daughter-in-laws who have been detained in re-education camps in Xinjiang. She brought photos of her family to the offices of rights organization Atazhurt in Almaty.

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Families Of The Disappeared: A Search For Loved Ones Held In China's Xinjiang Region

11:11am November 12, 2018

by Rob Schmitz

A Kazakh rights organization has collected more than 1,000 testimonies from ethnic Kazakhs and Uighurs whose families have disappeared into a network of internment camps in Xinjiang.

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