Nigeria: Satellite Missing From Orbit Nov 12, 2008
The cost of the satellite include items such as construction, insurance, value added tax as well as the price for building one ground control station in Abuja and a backup control station in Kashi, China. The satellite has four gateways said to be located in South Africa, China, Italy and Northern Nigeria. (allAfrica.com)
The price of our oil addiction Nov 11, 2008
By Michael Watts Photographs by Ed Kashi ... Former oilman Jeremy Leggett writes in his book "The Empty Tank" that energy security has three legs: "The Empire of Oil,""The Culture of Suppression," and "The Great Addiction." Ed Kashi's photographs of the Niger Delta -- one of Africa's frontier oil regions -- capture, more powerfully than words, the ugly, violent on-the-ground realities of Leggett's Holy Trinity at work ... Ed Kashi's work in the Niger Delta documents the existential nightmare of... (CNN)
Beyond the Wall Oct 6, 2008
A few kilometers outside the city of Hotan, the Yulong Kashi River (also known as White Jade River) has been carrying a huge amount of pebbles down the snowy mountains for thousands of years. The jade diggers, many of whom are local people, gather near the Yulong Kashi Bridge. (Xinhuanet, China)
Neo-Nazis seek permit for march in Jefferson City (1427) Oct 3, 2008
" Byron W. wrote on Sep 25, 2008 11:24 AM:" Mac1974 responded to "~~~~~~That is why he numbs himself with Scotch (Vodka, or whatever) and smokes it up on a regular basis."~~~~~~ with No, these days I'm more into Kashi and Jablum than any kind of mind or mood altering substances. And the only thing I smoke is you in a debate, Ms."Apparently Kashi and Jablum cause delusions. " ... "~~~~~~LOL @ scotch. What's with the scotch? If I was a hippy, wouldn't it be screw-top wine? lolNo, these days I'm... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Long train trips to schools shortened Sep 2, 2008
BEIJING, Sept. 2 -- Abudu Rezike, 17, a high school student from Kashi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, said the new train journey from his hometown to his school in Zhaoqing, Guangdong province, was now less tiring. "Thanks to the special train for students, the whole trip from Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital city to Guangzhou took 62 hours, some 10 hours less than before. We did not feel as tired as on the trip last year," Rezike was quoted by South Metropolis Daily as saying. (Xinhuanet, China)
China misfires withdivisive 'people's war' Aug 27, 2008
A series of terrorist attacks did rock Kashi and Kuqa in Xinjiang before and after the opening of the Games, leaving dozens dead, including policemen ... Following the first terror attack on armed police in Kashi on August 4, the Beijing Municipal State Security Bureau, the city's secret police, posted public notices asking citizens to alert them to suspicious persons or anything that "attempts to create ethnic conflicts, instigate national secession and threaten national security", media in... (Asia Times Online)
Extremists post new video threatening Olympics Aug 8, 2008
"The people of all ethnic groups in Kashi will remember you forever," said one banner held up by the crowd, Xinhua said, using the Chinese name for the town. Although signs and slogans around the city urge people to "build a harmonious Kashgar," the residents seem to be far from achieving the goal. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Deadly attack sets China on edge Aug 6, 2008
Kashgar, or Kashi in Chinese, is a tourist city that was once an oasis trading center on the Silk Road caravan routes and lies 80 miles from the border with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. Its mountainous, remote environs have allegedly provided cover for terrorist training camps, one of which Chinese police said they raided early last year. (News & Observer -- Sports)
Raid on border police in Xinjiang terrorist attack Aug 6, 2008
KASHI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- An official of Kashi Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said on Tuesday the raid on Kashi border police a day earlier was a terrorist attack. The attack had been planned in advance, Shi Dagang, Communist Party secretary of Kashi, told a press conference held in Kashi on Tuesday afternoon ... The two, both locals of Kashi, were identified as Abdurahman Azat, a 33-year-old vegetable peddler, and Kurbanjan Hemit, a 28-year-old taxi driver, Shi... (Xinhuanet, China)
Olympics will be safe, says China Aug 5, 2008
Kashgar, known as Kashi in Chinese, is some 4,000km (2,500 miles) from Beijing, near the border with Tajikistan. Although the episode happened a long way away from Beijing, the very fact that it happened four days before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, will make the organisers nervous, says the BBC's James Reynolds in Xinjiang. (BBC News)
Weapons in Xinjiang attack resemble those of East Turkistan ... Aug 5, 2008
URUMQI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The gun and explosives found at the site of the fatal attack on policemen in Kashi City were similar to those used by East Turkistan terrorists, Xinjiang public security authority said Tuesday. Police found nine home-made explosive items and a home-made gunat the site of the suspected terrorist attack that left at least 16 border policemen dead and 16 others injured on Monday morning in Kashi City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China ... Two knives and... (Xinhua)
China Police Beat Japanese Journalists After Xinjiang Attack, Kyodo Says Aug 5, 2008
The two journalists were covering an attack which left 16 policemen dead in the city of Kashi, or Kashgar, yesterday, the report said. Chinese police said it detained two men after the attack, both of whom are members of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority group, Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Four days before Games, terrorists strike in China Aug 5, 2008
The police said they have arrested two terrorists, one of whom got a leg injury, soon after the raid on the policemen jogging just 200 meters away from the border armed police division head quarters at Kashi in western China. The jogging policemen were hit by explosives thrown from a passing lorry and later attacked with knives at 8am. (India Times, India)
Bomb Attack in China's Xinjiang Province Kills 16 Policemen, Xinhua Says Aug 4, 2008
Sixteen officers were also injured when two men drove a dump truck into a team of police jogging outside their barracks at Kashi this morning, Xinhua said in its English-language service, citing unidentified local police ... Today's attack happened in Kashi, also known as Kashgar, a city in the restive Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region near China's border with Tajikistan ... 97 at 2:28 p.m. after Xinhua reported the Kashi attack in Chinese. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Senior officer is assassinated Aug 4, 2008
The assailants used a dump truck to ram their way into the paramilitary police station in Kashi and then tossed two hand grenades. Xinhua did not identify the attackers. (Boston Globe)
Report: 16 police killed in China border attack Aug 4, 2008
The report says the assailants used a dump truck to ram their way into the paramilitary police station in Kashi and then tossed two hand grenades ... The report says the assailants drove two vehicles inside the paramilitary police station in the Kashi region Monday and then threw two grenades. (Anchorage Daily News)
Grenade attack kills 16 policemen on Chinese border Aug 4, 2008
Kashgar, known to the Chinese as Kashi, is an old Silk Road city and was traditionally regarded as the Uighur capital of the region. Turkic-speaking Uighur Muslims form around 8 million of Xinjiang's 19 million population. (guardian.co.uk)
Beijing Olympic organizers confident of worry-free Games Aug 4, 2008
The attack left 16 policemen killed and 16 others injured in Kashi of Xinjiang when they were jogging outside the police division in a morning exercise. . (Xinhuanet, China)
Report: 'Rioters' Raid China Border Aug 4, 2008
The report says the assailants drove two vehicles inside the paramilitary police station in the Kashi region Monday and then threw two grenades. The brief Xinhua dispatch described the attackers as "rioters." The area is home to a Muslim Turkic people, the Uighurs (WEE'-gurs). (Time.com)
Sifting through Braves' Black Monday Jul 30, 2008
Commenting is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. M-F. Access Atlanta Blogs. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Air passengers face extra security checks for Olympics Jul 8, 2008
Xinjiang has 11 airports, Urumqi, Hami, Korla, Kuqa, Hetan, Kashi (Kashgar), Aksu, Yining, Karamay, Fuyun, and Altay. Tibet has at least two civilian airports, with one about 75 km away from the regional capital of Lhasa. (Xinhuanet, China)
* John Tkacik ON TAIWAN: Clear signal needed on disputed isles Jun 27, 2008
There are, however, at least three other fields that straddle the median line X Asunaro (Longjing), Kusunoki (Duanqiao) and Kashi (Tianwaitan) X but their delimitations are not dependent on the Senkaku Islands EEZ boundary. In 1972, Beijings claims to the Senkaku Islands were delayed a bit by the Cultural Revolution and the Japan-China era of good feeling that persisted for a few years after the Beijing-Tokyo normalization of 1972. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Drop that spoon! Felicity Lawrence on the rise of the breakfast cereal Jun 16, 2008
The ostensible reason for the trip was that Kellogg's was launching a new product in the UK - Kashi, a brand of mixed-grain puffed cereal free of all additives ... The public relations team moved us rapidly on from this unfortunate echo of Senator Choate's observations about rats to a presentation on the Kashi Way. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
LETTERS: NCT, June 5, 2008 Jun 6, 2008
" Still waiting Bill wrote on Jun 5, 2008 3:06 PM:Bush said that major combat operations were over with that day on the carrier deck. Don't tell the marines who went into Falluja. So ok, Bill, "the war is not over". Being a smart conservative and all, can you tell me who it is that we are at war with? We love the Iraqi government, so it's not them. They are Shiites with close ties to Iran. We have more than 90,000 Sunnis on the payroll and arm groups of them, so clearly it's not them. The... (North County Times)
Take a photo tour along China's Silk Road Mar 18, 2008
Getting to China: International airfare is not included and, as the trip begins in Xi'an and ends in Kashgar (airport name: Kashi), coordinating the air travel will take some legwork and likely involve a multicity fare. We did a quick search on Kayak for flights arriving in Xi'an and departing from Kashgar in mid-late October and found these fares: $1,466 from San Francisco, $1,480 from L.A., $1,523 from New York City, $1,755 from Chicago, and $1,773 from Houston (all on multiple carriersand... (MSNBC -- Travel)
China plans rail link to Central Asia Jan 29, 2008
China has also launched work on designing a second rail route that would start at Kashi (Kaxgar) in Xinjiang and pass through Kyrgyzstan to reach Uzbekistan. This route is expected to become operational in 2010 and will enable China to reach Europe by improving the connectivity between western China, Central Asia and the southern passageway of the new Euroasia continental bridge, sources said. (India Times, India)
New railways to link China's Xinjiang with central Asia Jan 27, 2008
Meanwhile, preparatory work has begun on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway, which starts from Kashi (Kaxgar) in Xinjiang and extends through Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan. Upon its completion in 2010, experts say the railway will provide a faster link between western China and central Asia and improve the southern passageway of the new Euroasia continental bridge. (Xinhuanet, China)
Majestic Gold Engages Firm for Chinese Technical Report & Construction of Year Round Access Road at Sawayaerdun Jan 10, 2008
The Sawayaerdun project is located 200 kilometres northwest of Kashi in western region of Xinjiang Province, China. A total of 22 mineralized zones have been identified on the property, one of which has been the primary target for exploration. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Universal Ramayana Oct 9, 2007
And Kashgarh, still called Kashi, is east of it while Samarkand, earlier the Markandaya of the Puranas, is to its north-west. So it is possible that Lanka might have been a piece of land beyond the several water bodies in central Asia. (India Times, India)
Injured Russian mountaineer receives treatment in China Sep 11, 2007
The villager made a stretcher out of his donkey cart and carried the Bezditko to the nearest police station for first-aid, after which he was sent to the No. 1 People's Hospital in Kashi Prefecture for an operation. Hospital sources said Bezditko had regained consciousness and was able to talk again on Sunday. (Xinhuanet, China)
China pact a mixed blessing for Pakistan Jul 3, 2007
Two cargo routes run from Kashi in southern Xinjiang autonomous region to Pakistan's ports of Karachi, Qasim and Gwadar. The passenger lines run from Kashi and Taxkorgan, also in southern Xinjiang, to Pakistan's northern city of Gilgit and Sost Pass respectively. (Asia Times Online)
Rural discontentWill elections change anything for poor in India's biggest state? Apr 18, 2007
And "if someone is so unfortunate to fall ill at night, he can only cry and shout and die," says resident Kashi Ram ... If someone falls ill at night, he can only cry and die, says Kashi Ram. (BBC News)
Sandstorm hits northern China Apr 1, 2007
UPDATED: 13:26, April 01, 2007. Northern China was blanketed in dust on Saturday as the first sandstorm of the year struck the region, including the capital Beijing. (People's Daily Online, China)
China-Pakistan rail linkon the horizon Feb 24, 2007
By extending its East-West Railway from the Chinese border city of Kashi to Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest, Beijing can receive cargo to and from Gwadar along the shortest route, from Karachi to Peshawar. The rail network could also be used to supply oil from the Persian Gulf to Xinjiang. (Asia Times Online)
