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Volkswagen is to sell its controversial plant in China's Xinjiang region to the Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Center

Volkswagen confirms plans to sell site in Xinjiang region

Volkswagen will exit its controversial plant in China's Xinjiang region, after years of investor pressure to abandon its presence in the region, where rights groups have documented abuses including mass forced labour in detention camps.

Business • 27 Nov 24

Intel has become the latest western firm to be tripped up over rights issues in China

Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier letter

US chip maker Intel has apologised in China after its letter telling suppliers not to source products or labour from the Xinjiang region triggered a backlash, making it the latest western firm to be tripped up over rights issues in the country.

Business • 23 Dec 21

Nike's China sales in spotlight after Xinjiang backlash

All eyes will be on Nike's sales forecast for China as it reports quarterly numbers against the backdrop of calls to boycott global brands in the country for their comments on alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Business • 24 Jun 21

H&M, Burberry, Nike and Adidas and other Western brands have been hit by consumer boycotts in China since last week over comments about their sourcing of cotton in Xinjiang

China warns companies against politicising actions

Chinese officials said today that Sweden's H&M and other foreign companies should not to make rash moves or step into politics after the companies raised concerns about forced labour in Xinjiang.

Business • 29 Mar 21

Burberry is a member of the Better Cotton Initiative, a group that promotes sustainable cotton production

Burberry first luxury brand to suffer Chinese backlash

Burberry has lost a Chinese brand ambassador and its hallmark tartan design was scrubbed from a popular video game, becoming the first luxury brand assailed by the Chinese backlash to Western accusations of abuses in Xinjiang.

Business • 26 Mar 21

China said the camps are vocational training centres to counter extremism

China committing genocide against Uighurs - report

The Chinese government's treatment of Uighurs has violated "each and every act" prohibited by the United Nations' Genocide Convention, a report by dozens of international experts has alleged.

World • 10 Mar 21

The UN says China's 'vocational training centres' are actually detention centres (Pics: Lorenz Huber)

Inside Xinjiang: China cracks down on Uighur population

China has built a vast network of high-security facilities across the north-western province of Xinjiang. It calls them vocational training centres, but the UN says they are detention centres, as Yvonne Murray reports from Kashgar.

World • 01 Oct 20

Anti-China protests have taken place in many European cities, such as London, in recent months

EU asks China to let observers visit Xinjiang

The EU has asked China to grant independent observers access to its Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of orchestrating widespread rights abuses against the region's Muslim Uighur population.

World • 14 Sep 20

The Arsenal player condemned China's crackdown on Muslim minorities in Xinjiang

Chinese media slam 'clownish' Ozil for Uighur comments

Chinese state media has warned that Mesut Ozil's criticism of the country's treatment of its Uighurs will have "serious implications" for Arsenal.

World • 16 Dec 19

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has called on China to close the camps

France calls on China to close Uighur detention camps

France has called on China to end "mass arbitrary detentions" in Xinjiang, where around one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are being held in camps that China calls vocational schools.

World • 27 Nov 19

Leaked documents reveal how China runs Xinjiang camps

Leaked government documents outlining the need to prevent escape and constantly monitor detainees in China's network of internment camps refute Beijing's defence of "vocational education centres" in the region, experts say.

Asia • 25 Nov 19

Emergency services rush to the scene of the blasts

31 killed in Chinese bomb attack

At least 31 people have died in an explosion in the capital of China's western region of Xinjiang.

News • 22 May 14

Police and emergency personnel gather outside the railway station

Three dead in bomb attack at Chinese train station

Three people were killed and 79 others injured in an explosion at a railway station in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region, state media reported.

News • 30 Apr 14

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