By Uyghur Times StaffJune 3, 2025 U.S. Senator Marco Rubio marked the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre with a statement on X, honoring those killed and imprisoned during the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal 1989 crackdown. “We remember the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown 36 years ago in Tiananmen […]
By Uyghur Times StaffJune 3, 2025, 6:00 PM ET On June 4, 1989, Chinese troops opened fire on unarmed protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds—possibly thousands—of students and citizens who were peacefully demanding democracy and reform. The massacre shocked the world and marked one of the darkest chapters in […]
May 28, 202 May 28 (Reuters) – Shein, the online fast-fashion giant, is now shifting its IPO ambitions to Hong Kong after Chinese regulators did not approve its previously proposed London listing, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The Singapore-headquartered company, which moved its base from China in […]
June 3, 2025, 5:33 PM EDT Two Chinese nationals, Yunqing Jian, 34, and Zunyong Liu, 41, were arrested for smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a crop-damaging fungus, into the US. The pair allegedly hid the pathogen for unauthorized research at the University of Michigan. They face charges of conspiracy, smuggling, false statements, […]
By Tahir Imin Uyghurian A Tradition of Knowledge and Faith There has been a respected tradition among educated and culturally rooted Uyghurs to give books as gifts, especially when someone sets out on a journey. I personally witnessed this practice in both the southern and northern parts of the Uyghur […]
By Tahir Imin Uyghurian As the world watches China’s rise, it must also confront the darker truths behind its economic power and political dominance. While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes itself as a modern, efficient government, the reality is far more disturbing—especially for the Uyghur people and other oppressed […]
Abduweli Ayup, a Uyghur language expert, writer, journalist, and linguist, was born in Kashgar in 1973. In 1997, he began studying at the Faculty of Turkic Languages at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing. He later earned a master’s degree in Classical Uyghur Literature from Xinjiang University in 2001. […]
By Shongqar Uyghur, May 29, 2025 Writer and linguist Abduweli Ayup’s new book dedicated to Uyghur teenagers, titled “What Do They Say” (Ular Nime Deydu), was published at the end of May. Considering the needs of teenagers in diaspora who use different scripts, the book has been published for the […]
By Uyghur Times StaffSaturday, May 18, 2025 | Berlin, Germany Dozens of activists and community leaders gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin last Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama, one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most revered figures. The protest, […]
By Tursun UyghurMay 22, 2025 ISTANBUL, TURKEY — In a major blow to China’s global Spy Network , Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has uncovered and dismantled a sophisticated Chinese espionage network operating in Turkish territory. The seven-member spy ring was caught using fake base stations—high-tech surveillance devices known as […]