The encirclement of the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region – an area about the size of Germany – is meant to prevent sandstorms and protect local ...

By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief, reported last month from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Volkswagen said on Wednesday that it was disposing of its ownership stakes in ...

Exiled members of China’s Uyghur minority group accuse Beijing of human rights violations and say the Communist Party chief in the Xinjiang region where most of them are from has been more heavy ...

German car giant VW said that it would sell its factory and test track in Xinjiang for "economic reasons." China has been accused of using forced labor from ethnic Uyghurs in the region.

VW announced on Wednesday that the plant in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in western China, and two test tracks in Turpan, Xinjiang and Anting, Shanghai, will be sold ...

Volkswagen has sold its plant in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China beset by accusations of human rights abuses, citing “economic reasons.” “There is no business case for (the plant ...

Volkswagen said on November 26 that it was selling its stake in manufacturing and testing facilities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. The New York Times says the sale brings to an end VW’s ...

Fast Retailing did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The issue of sourcing from Xinjiang, where rights groups and the U.S. government accuse China of abuses against the Uyghur ...

Apart from China, Uniqlo also makes clothes in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia. Uniqlo doesn't use cotton from China's Xinjiang region to make its products, Tadashi Yanai, the chief ...

Beijing (AFP) – German car giant Volkswagen said Wednesday it would sell its operations in China's Xinjiang region, where Beijing has been accused of widespread human rights abuses including ...

During a BBC interview on Nov. 28, Yanai stated that Xinjiang cotton is not used in Uniqlo products. He refrained from specifying the origin of cotton used in the brand's products, saying any ...

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