This Week’s Favorite Houston Dishes: Move Over, Colonel—Himalaya Fried Chicken Is Here

Edit Houston Press 14 Apr 2016
A A. Facebook0. Twitter0. More shares recommend reddit email 0. 0. Fried Chicken at Himalaya, 6652 Southwest Freeway ... Owner Kaiser Lashkari hates bland food and so made his own savory, crispy fried chicken. It’s simply fantastic ... "Big Plate Chicken" at Uyghur Bistro, 9888 Bellaire. We just couldn't get over the amazing confluence of spices and chilies in the "big plate chicken" (phonetically "da pan ji" in Chinese) at Uyghur Bistro ... ....

Cardin Highlights State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices as an Important Tool for Holding Human Rights Violators Accountable (US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations) Thursday, April 14, 2016. WASHINGTON - U.S ... For example. ... The Chinese government continues to discriminate against ethnic groups, repress Tibetan Buddhists and Uyghur Muslims, and suppress of civil society, in the name of the fight against separatism, religious extremism, and terrorism ... This is why I have fought to enact the Global Magnitsky Act, which has been passed by the Senate ... ###....

Can China get away with abducting people overseas?

Edit CNN 14 Apr 2016
Kenya used 'tear gas' to force workers onto plane to China. Taiwan. JUST WATCHED. Anger in Taiwan after Kenya deports citizens to China ... China's extraterritorial reach worldwide is also cause for apprehension among Taiwanese, Uyghur, Tibetan and Hong Kong activists who now live and travel under the shadow of possible capture and extradition to China for any "crimes" as defined by Beijing's intentionally vague National Security Law ... J ... ....

Washington’s promises to the Kurds — testing the US as an ally to the hilt

Edit Asia Times 13 Apr 2016
Washington and Ankara are tussling over the role to be played by Syria’s Kurds in sealing Turkey’s border as an ISIS supply line ... In return for Turkey’s cooperation, Erdogan demands that Syrian Arab tribal forces be included in the Manbij operation ... Moreover, it was also viewed as antagonizing China since Erdogan’s support of Turkmen and Chinese Uyghurs jihadists in Syria is a thorny issue in bilateral relations.[2]....

Punjabis and Arabs among foreign terrorists fighting in Afghanistan: MoD

Edit Khaama Press 12 Apr 2016
MoD in its statement further added that Chechens, Punjabis, Arabs, Uzbeks, Uyghur and other foreign terrorists are actively participating in the war in Afghanistan and are continuously killing innocent Afghan civilians ... ....

Letter from HRW to Prime Minister Turnbull (HRW - Human Rights Watch)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
Authorities increasingly treat peaceful dissent as a threat to public order or national security, epitomized by the prosecutions of Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti, a proponent of inter-ethnic dialogue who is now serving a life sentence on 'separatism' charges, and more than a dozen human rights lawyers for 'subversion.' The government continues to ......

New airliner threat: Arming Syrian jihadists with US anti-aircraft missiles

Edit Asia Times 08 Apr 2016
The groups that broke the ceasefire included al-Qaeda in Syria (al-Nusra), the Chinese Uyghur Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), The Levant Brigade, the Freemen of Syria (Ahrar al-Sham), Division 13 and other jihadi groups ... US soldier with MANPAD ... El Al planes on runway ... In contrast to the US, Russia and China may face a higher risk for MANPAD attacks, given the presence of thousands of Chechen and Uyghur militants in the Syrian opposition....

'Asymmetric harmony' good for Sino-US ties

Edit China Daily 08 Apr 2016
... operations and mergers and acquisitions in the US; hacking China's computers and sending spy planes to patrol China's shores; fomenting "extremism, separatism and terrorism" in the Tibet and Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous regions; and injecting Western values to overwhelm Chinese values, eroding China's independence and undermining its sovereignty....

Dispatches: Mother’s Search for Son Triggers Prosecution in China (HRW - Human Rights Watch)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Apr 2016
Today in Urumqi, capital of the region home to the ethnically Turkic Uyghur people, a court tried Patigul Ghulam in closed proceedings on allegations of leaking state secrets ... enforcement agencies carried out a massive campaign of arbitrary arrests in the Uyghur areas of Urumqi, resulting in dozens - and possibly many more - of 'disappearances.'....

Does India have a role in the Taliban talks process?

Edit The Times of India 07 Apr 2016
NEW DELHI ... At this point, India is kept "in the loop" by members of the Quad (as it is called), particularly the US and Afghanistan ... Any such move, however, will be hotly opposed by Pakistan, which would not want India in the group at all ... But their security interests were impacted as ETIM - the East Turkestan Islamic Movement comprising of ethnic Uyghur Islamic militants - settled in Miranshah and built ties with Taliban of all shades....

UYGHUR - People on the Edge of China

Edit Skiddle 06 Apr 2016
Photographic exhibition of China's Uyghur ethnic minority and the landscape around the city of Kashgar, located at China's far Western frontier ... UYGHUR - People on the Edge of China on Wed 6th April 2016 ... The majority of its inhabitants are from the Uyghur ethnic ......

Alibaba promotes e-commerce in Xinjiang cities

Edit Xinhua 05 Apr 2016
First Uyghur e-commerce platform launched in Xinjiang ... 23 (Xinhua) -- An e-commerce platform in the Uyghur language was launched in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyhgur Autonomous Region on Monday, becoming the first of its kind in the country ... using both Mandarin and Uyghur languages on its website, offering shopping convenience for locals....

RFA Launches Investigative Series on North Korean Labor Overseas (BBG - Broadcasting Board of Governors)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Apr 2016
(Source. BBG - Broadcasting Board of Governors). Venture Is First in a Series of In-Depth Journalistic Projects to Come. WASHINGTON - Radio Free Asia (RFA) today launched an investigative project 'Human Capital. North Korean Workers Abroad Earn Hard Currency for Regime,' focusing on North Korea's practice of sending tens of thousands to work in foreign countries ... 'The Uyghur Diaspora in the West'; 'Fool's Gold ... Original Document ... (noodl....
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