The U.S. Geological Survey says a moderate earthquake registering magnitude 4.9 has struck China’s far western Xinjiang region.

China said Tuesday its overall security situation improved over the past year, although it remained alert to separatism in Tibet and Xinjiang and firmly opposed to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

The number of wild camels _ rugged creatures living in a former nuclear test zone with increasingly scarce water _ in China’s western Xinjiang territory has grown to about 500, making up about half of the world’s population of the animals, state-run media

China has bestowed the “revolutionary martyr” honor on seven people killed in a wave of violence in the western Muslim region of Xinjiang during a period of tight security for the Beijing Olympics, officials and media reported Thursday.

Rocked by a fresh outbreak of anti-government violence, officials in China’s far western Xinjiang region are urging expanded free education to staunch support for Islamic separatists.

China on Wednesday sentenced two people to death for an audacious attack in the far-west region of Xinjiang that killed 17 police and wounded 15 others days before the start of the Beijing Olympics.

Chinese police investigating a spate of attacks this month in western Xinjiang province shot dead six suspects and arrested three others, state media reported.

Chinese police clashed with members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority in the far western region of Xinjiang, authorities and an activist said Thursday, the first reported outbreak of violence in the area since two high-profile attacks during the Olympi

The first outbreak of violence in China’s western region of Xinjiang since a pair of high-profile attacks during the Olympics has left two Chinese policemen dead and seven more wounded, authorities and an activist said Thursday.

Two policemen were killed and seven more were injured in a confrontation with ethnic Uighurs, authorities and an activist said Thursday, in the latest surge of violence in China’s western region of Xinjiang.