Saphola Anayat's father used to make a living peddling vegetables off the back of a donkey cart in Kashgar. Donkey carts are now a rare sight in the city in southern Xinjiang, they have been replaced by something a bit more 21st century -- computers.
A Thai military court issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday (Aug 16) for a second suspect in connection with a wave of deadly bomb attacks last week that killed four people and injured dozens, the police said.
China's vast southern regions are expected to experience blizzards, sleet and rainfall until Saturday, the national weather authority said on Tuesday. But it said the weather will not likely disrupt transportation.
Al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front militants withdrew from a town in the southern countryside of the capital Damascus after days of clashes with a rival jihadist group, a monitoring group reported Thursday.
A free high school education pilot project has benefitted 93,287 students in southern parts of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region since last fall .
China's usually warm south is being gripped by extreme cold - without the protection of a heating system, unlike their counterparts in the north...Now, many southerners are asking for the the same heating as the north... which could strain the country's energy supply.
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