A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

The fervent appeal by Uyghurs across the globe, civil society organisations, human rights activists, scholars, and sympathisers not to hand over the hapless and helpless Uyghur repatriates fell on ...

“And (it’s) everybody’s favorite food, not only Xinjiang, in the Middle Asia, also Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, all the -stans, all the people know about the laghman.” Laghman, a traditional Uyghur dish ...

The war in Ukraine and the terrorist attacks in Moscow have led to unprecedented pressure on migrant workers in Russia, both in the political sphere and among the Russian public. Thousands of ...

Uyghur separatist groups have consistently supported the Taliban in their two-decade-long fight for control of Afghanistan, but increased Chinese presence in the country is altering the status quo ...

In early February, headlines in Uzbekistan proclaimed that 31 gold mining sites Navoi region had been auctioned off, with many claiming that the majority of the buyers were Chinese. As is often ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -- The United States Embassy in Bangkok on Friday issued a security alert for its citizens in Thailand, a day after the deportation of a group of Uyghurs to China. "Similar ...

(AP Photo/Mark Baker, File) BANGKOK — Both the US and Japanese embassies in Thailand have issued security alerts to their citizens following the Thai government’s deportation of 40 Uyghur ...

The United States (US) issued a security alert to its citizens in Thailand on Friday, warning of the possible risk of reprisal attacks after the kingdom deported dozens of Uyghurs to China.

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra firmly denies allegations of a trade deal with China in exchange for repatriating Uyghur detainees on Feb. 28, 2025. BANGKOK — Thai Prime Minister ...

Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group residing in various parts of the world, with approximately 12 million living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in Northwest China. The majority of ...