BEIJING - CHINESE police have detained 718 people suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic rioting in northwestern Xinjiang region last month, the official Xinhua agency said on Tuesday.
KALAMAZOO (Michigan) - TWO more branches of the Chinese-sponsored Confucius Institute will open in the Midwestern state of Michigan this year, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
BEIJING - THREE children of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer appeared on Chinese TV to denounce her on Tuesday, but it was not possible to confirm if they were speaking of their own free will, with one shown in jail.
'The road my mother has chosen leads to a bottomless hole,' said one of her sons, 33-year-old Alim, shown speaking on state television from prison where he is serving a sentence for tax evasion.
BEIJING - AT LEAST 17 people were killed on Tuesday when a building collapsed amid torrential rain in north China's Shijiazhuang city, state media reported.
