Ramadan China

The number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 23,077, including 718 deaths, Union Health Ministry said this morning, adding that 1,684 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, 37 people died. The increase in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases in the country is "more or less linear, not exponential", the government said on Thursday....

In China, the current Islamic holy month of Ramadan can bring even more struggles for Muslims already under relentless pressures.

China has marked the start of Ramzan with its customary ban on civil servants, students and children in a mainly-Muslim region from taking part in fasting, government websites said as the holy month started on Monday.

Ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China's far western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported today, and at least 18 people were killed.

A Chinese Communist party academic defended a government-organised beer festival in a mainly Muslim county ahead of Ramadan by saying that locals enjoy alcohol, state media reported today.

China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open, official websites showed as the holy month began today.

When a remote county in China's far west exploded last week in what appeared to be the country's worst ethnic violence since 2009, it took the government six days to put out an exact death toll. It isn't clear when a full picture of what happened might emerge, if ever, given Beijing's iron-fisted grip on the minority region.

The number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 23,077, including 718 deaths, Union Health Ministry said this morning, adding that 1,684 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours, 37 people died. The increase in the number of fresh COVID-19 cases in the country is "more or less linear, not exponential", the government said on Thursday....

In China, the current Islamic holy month of Ramadan can bring even more struggles for Muslims already under relentless pressures.

China has marked the start of Ramzan with its customary ban on civil servants, students and children in a mainly-Muslim region from taking part in fasting, government websites said as the holy month started on Monday.

Ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China's far western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported today, and at least 18 people were killed.

A Chinese Communist party academic defended a government-organised beer festival in a mainly Muslim county ahead of Ramadan by saying that locals enjoy alcohol, state media reported today.

China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open, official websites showed as the holy month began today.

When a remote county in China's far west exploded last week in what appeared to be the country's worst ethnic violence since 2009, it took the government six days to put out an exact death toll. It isn't clear when a full picture of what happened might emerge, if ever, given Beijing's iron-fisted grip on the minority region.