The U.S. State Department has imposed visa sanctions on an unspecified number of current and former Thai officials for their role in last month’s deportation of 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China.

Another standout example is Sofra, a restaurant chain established by Hüseyin Özer. He began his culinary journey in a humble ...

Shutting down the U.S.-funded broadcaster will silence voices that are already suppressed by Asia’s authoritarian regimes.

Chaharshanbe Suri, also known as the Festival of Fire, is a traditional Persian celebration ... and the welcoming of spring. The name "Chaharshanbe Suri" translates to "Red Wednesday," where ...

Two years later, the pair settled in Zhu’s hometown, where Dao immersed himself in the local Uyghur music ... where he got his stage name — a pinyin transcription of “Dolans,” a Central Asian ethnic ...

A wide range of languages have adopted some form of the Arabic word "musafir," including Romanian, Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, Kazakh, Malay and Uyghur ... Though his name is still ...

he collaborated with Uyghur composer Kuddus Kuzhamyarov on the opera “Golden Mountains” and composed orchestral works such as “Ata Tolgau”, “Halyk Kuanyshy”, and “Kairat”. His music was also featured ...

Nearly every table of customers waited for servers to gingerly ferry over white ceramic plates holding a mountain of thick, chewy wheat noodles. A vibrant chile-laced sauce clung to bone-in ...

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has expressed its appreciation for the recent sanctions imposed by the US State Department on Thai officials involved in the deportation of Uyghur refugees to China.

These summits will assemble Uyghur leaders, human rights advocates, community representatives, business experts, youth activists, scholars, and politicians from 20 different nations, in addition ...