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Olympic sponsor Airbnb profits from Xinjiang, Tibet listings

Battery specialist and transport operator agree 'globally important deal' structured around a transport-as-a-service commercial model

A BRADFORD waste collection firm is making its bin runs for peoples rubbish greener with the unveiling of its first zero-emission electric bin…

David Hebert, set to be a witness in Gen Andrades trial, is seeking a delay in sentencing.

Melbourne, Jan 30: When the Beijing Winter Olympics open on February 4, diplomats from a number of countries, including the US, UK, Canada and Australia, will not be there to watch. Their diplomatic boycott hinges on concerns about human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we talk to three experts about China’s long-term vision for Xinjiang, and what its strategy there means for the region’s persecuted Uyghurs....

This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode published on January 27 2022.

Plus, what toxic heavy metals are lingering in household dust around the world? Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.

Frenchwoman Eleanor Dumont—nicknamed 'Madame Mustache'—followed miners all over the West, winning their gold in card games.

ON NEW Year’s Day in 1921 two County Limerick men paid the ultimate price for Irish Freedom. Thomas Murphy, Ballylanders, and David Tobin, Glenbrohane, we...

Excerpts from previously unpublished documents directly linking China’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province to speeches by the Chinese leadership in 2014 have been put online. The documents — including three speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in April 2014 — cover security, population control and the need to punish the Uighur population. Some are marked top secret. They were leaked to the Uighur Tribunal, an independent people’s tribun...