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After Mekong, China focuses to take control over Brahmaputra's water
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 11 (ANI): In yet another example where China has run into rough waters with its neighbours, the country has planned to build the world's biggest dam on River Brahmaputra - a 60-gigawatt mega-dam in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), reported Al Jazeera.
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Xinjiang forced labour issue may hit China's investment agreement with EU
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 20 (ANI): With the European Parliament (EP) passing a resolution on forced labour and the condition of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China's plans to have investment agreements with the European Union (EU) member states seem to be now
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Chang'e-5 moon samples transferred to research teams
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Moon samples collected by China's Chang'e-5 probe have been transferred to the Chinese research teams Saturday morning.
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European Parliament asks China to allow UN fact-finding team to visit Xinj
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], December 18 (ANI): The European Parliament on Friday passed a resolution on forced labour and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region while calling on the EU to proactively work towards an independent UN inquiry on China with a view to ensuri
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China's 'labour transfer policy' in Tibet bears similarities with Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], December 15 (ANI): Since last year, China has been introducing new policies to promote the centralised and large-scale transfer of 'rural surplus labourers' to parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), as well as other provinces of the People's Republic of China in repeated
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Uyghur poet continues writing in internment camps, his poems testimony of
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 25 (ANI): A Uyghur poet, who had been sent to Chinese internment camps in 2018, continues to write poetry while being locked up in the cell and his poems are the "powerful testaments" to a continuing catastrophe in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Chinese authorities detaining hundreds of Uyghur Imams in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 23 (ANI): As atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in China continue, Chinese authorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have now detained hundreds of Muslim Imams, according to an Uyghur linguist in exile.
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Weakening China's pretext for Uyghur crackdown, US drops ETIM from terrori
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 6 (ANI): The US government has removed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) from its list of terrorist organisations after nearly two decades that has led to the weakening of China's anti-terror pretext for a draconian crackdown on Uyghurs in its Xinjiang Uygh
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China denies encroaching on Nepali land, says building constructed falls w
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 16 (ANI): Amid reports that China has encroached on Nepali land and is constructing structures, Chinese state media on Friday said that the buildings fall within the Chinese territory and are actually a newly-built village in Tibet Autonomous Region and not on the "e
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Textile industry to brace for further uncertainties amid escalating global
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 6 (ANI): The US withhold release order on cotton and apparel imports from specific producers in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) may escalate global trade tensions and thus have negative implications on Indian textile sector in the short run, Indi
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US passes Bill requiring firms to disclose connection with forced labour i
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], October 1 (ANI): Lawmakers from the Lower House of the United States Congress have passed legislation that would require US-listed companies to disclose if their supply chains are connected to forced labour in China's Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
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Allow 'meaningful access' to Xinjiang for independent observers: EU calls
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 26 (ANI): European Union has called on China to allow meaningful access to Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region for independent observers, including for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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