Authorities in China's troubled Xinjiang region will step up identity checks and monitor religious activities in a renewed bid to quash terrorism, separatism and extremism, state media said Wednesday. The announcement of new government regulations aimed at helping the police and judiciary stamp out the so-called "three forces" in the region comes six months after ethnic violence left nearly ...

China has executed nine people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, regional authorities said Monday, the first executions since the violence in July. "The first group of nine people who were sentenced to death recently have already been executed in succession, with the approval of the Supreme Court," Hou Hanmin, spokeswoman for the Xinjiang government, told AFP ...

A court in western China's Xinjiang region sentenced to death Monday six people convicted of violent crimes in July riots that left nearly 200 people dead, state-run television reported.