Media men delegations from 15 different nations, including the Kingdom, have paid a visit to the Silk Road Economic Zone, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China.
The delegations were briefed on the economic and cultural history of the region, (...)
AlQa'dah 12, 1436, Aug 27, 2015, SPA -- One person was killed and one is missing after a steel plant caught fire in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at noon on Thursday, said local authorities.
The fire broke out at 12:30 p.m. (...)
Wind energy will be used to power the heating networks this winter in two areas of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the regional development and reform commission said on Saturday.
In Xinjiang, the amount of electricity generated from wind power (...)
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake hit the city of Atux in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Saturday.
Xinhua News Agency quoted the China Earthquake Networks Centre as saying that the quake struck at 2:50 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), with the (...)
Sixteen people were killed and 11 others injured after a coal mine collapsed in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local safety watchdog said Saturday.
The accident happened in the regional capital Urumqi late Friday night when 33 workers (...)
AlHijjah 23, 1435, Oct 17, 2014, SPA -- Nine people have been confirmed dead in a coal mine cave-in in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday, a local mining company said on Thursday.
A 60-hour rescue operation ended Thursday (...)
Dozens of civilians were killed or injured in a terrorist attack early on Monday morning in Shache County, Kashgar Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local police said.
A gang armed with knives and axes attacked a police (...)
At least 17 miners remain trapped after a coal mine gas blast in Xinjiang on Saturday night.
Rescuers are pouring nitrogen into the mine to dilute the gas concentration. The process, which was started early on Sunday morning, needs to be continued (...)
At least six people were killed, another four injured in a traffic accident in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Sunday.
The crash took place at 9:50 a.m. in Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Changji. A truck collided with a coach on the (...)
A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit a county of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 10:14 a.m. on Tuesday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
The epicenter, with a depth of 11 km, was monitored at about (...)
Three people were killed and two injured in three explosions in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Friday, local authorities said.
Two explosions took place at a hair salon and a vegetable market in the county seat of Xinhe in the (...)
Eight terrorists were shot dead and another one captured by police during a terrorist attack early Monday morning in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, authorities said.
The nine terrorists attacked a police station wielding knives (...)
Twenty-one miners were killed after a gas explosion in a coal mine early on Friday in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, regional emergency response office said.
The office said earlier that 22 miners were trapped in the mine (...)
One person died and at least six others were injured after a bus caught fire on Monday morning in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
According to Xinhua, the bus caught fire suddenly around 11:30 a.m. on Guangming Road in Urumqi, (...)
Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain have affected over 17,000 people in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the local government said Tuesday.
The rain, which started on Friday, has hit much of southern Xinjiang, (...)
At least 11 people died after a bus carrying 35 people plunged into a valley Tuesday afternoon in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to local traffic police.
The accident occurred around 5:15 p.m. when the bus was (...)
Heavy flooding triggered by rainstorms has killed two people and affected over 16,400 others in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said Thursday.
Downpours started in Kashgar Prefecture on Sunday evening, (...)
More than 400 vehicles are stranded following rain-triggered mudslides that cut off multiple sections of a major road in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, border police said Saturday.
Several stretches of National Highway 314 (...)
More than 155,000 people had been affected as of late Sunday, after a 6.6-magnitude quake jolted northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region early Saturday morning, local authorities said Sunday.
As of 7 p.m. Sunday, the number of injured (...)
Two people have been reported dead and one person remains missing following a rain-triggered flood that hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region Sunday, local authorities said.
The flood, triggered by rainstorms, began at 2 p.m. (...)
More than 50 people were returned to safety Tuesday following a five-hour operation to rescue them from an area hit by high winds in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
Fifty-two passengers in 15 vehicles have stranded on the (...)
Six people were killed and 10 others were injured in a car accident that occurred in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Wednesday, local authorities said.
The accident occurred around 2 a.m. on Expressway G30 in Shanshan County. (...)
Firefighters in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have extinguished a fire which engulfed a forest on the border of China and Kazakhstan on Tuesday afternoon.
The blaze broke out about 4 p.m. in Panfilov in Kazakhstan, and later (...)
Heavy winds, rainstorms and hailstorms have damaged 7,000 hectares of crops in China's far western Xinjiang since Thursday, local authorities said Saturday.
Strong winds, low temperatures and heavy rains have swept Xinjiang in turns since (...)
At least one person was killed and eight others remained missing after their bus fell into a lake in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Wednesday.
The accident happened at about 10 a.m. when the bus carrying 16 people, all (...)
