Xijiang riot suspects trials to be held next month

September 21st, 2009 BEIJING - The Chinese police have arrested 2,830 people suspected of fake invoice trading and confiscated more than 47 million such invoices during a three-month national campaign against invoice fraud. These suspects were involved in 1,658 cases, a report said Monday.

September 17th, 2009 Urumqi (Xijiang, China), - Chinese security forces said they have broken up a terrorist bomb-making operation in Xinjiang in Northwest China. A China Daily report quoted security officials as saying that six alleged terrorists had been taken into custody during the pre-Aug 26 swoops.

September 15th, 2009 Chinese ban transport of explosives in UrumqiBEIJING — Chinese police on Tuesday banned explosives from being transported in the western region of Xinjiang, the scene of deadly ethnic rioting this summer, while more suspects were being investigated for a spate of mysterious syringe attacks. The Xinjiang Public Security Ministry said transport of weapons, ammunition, explosives and radioactive goods into or within Xinjiang would be suspended from Sept.

September 4th, 2009 VLADIVOSTOK - A crew of Indian submariners will take part in sea trials in mid-September of the Russian nuclear submarine which is to be leased to the Indian Navy by the end of 2009, a source said Friday. Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, damaged in a fatal accident during tests last November, resumed sea trials July 10 in the Sea of Japan after extensive repairs that cost an estimated 1.9 billion roubles ($60 million).

August 24th, 2009 Report: 200 to go on trial after Xinjiang riotsBEIJING — More than 200 people are expected to go on trial this week for their involvement in sectarian riots last month that killed nearly 200 people in China's western region of Xinjiang, a state-run newspaper reported Monday. The trials will take place in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang and the site of China's worst ethnic violence in decades, in which another 1,700 people were injured, the China Daily reported.

August 24th, 2009 BEIJING - Over 200 suspects have been arrested to face trial for their alleged involvement in Xinjiang's riots, China's deadliest in 50 years. The trials are expected to start this week in the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China.

August 10th, 2009 Los Angeles (US): A 11-hour riot, at the Reception Center West at the California Institution for Men in Chino, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, on Saturday night and Sunday morning, has left 250 prisoners injured and 55 being admitted to hospital. Black prison gangs fought Latino gangs in hand-to-hand combat; the New York Times quoted the prison authorities, as saying.

August 4th, 2009 BEIJING - Police forces and state security agencies had prevented five organized terrorist attacks on civilians in China's far west Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China's anti-terrorism sources said Monday. Police forces and state security authorities had successively crushed five organized terrorist plots in Urumqi, Kashgar, Aksu and Ili in Xinjiang.

August 3rd, 2009 URUMQI - Police in China's northwestern Xinjiang province have detained 319 more people in connection with the July 5 riots in this provincial capital. The arrests were made after the police said to have detained 1,572 people in connection with the clashes in which 197 people were killed and hundreds were injured.

July 27th, 2009 KHABAROVSK - The first stage of sea trials of Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, which was damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, has been successfully completed, the Amur shipyard said Monday. The vessel, which will be leased to the Indian Navy by the end of 2009, resumed sea trials July 10 in the Sea of Japan following extensive repairs.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Ahmedabad-based Veeda Clinical Research organization is entering Malaysia's medical sector by setting up its advanced research unit at the Ampang Hospital in Kuala Lumpur by the year-end. India's fastest-growing clinical research organisation has selected the Ampang Hospital to conduct first phase clinical trials on humans under a quasi-commercial agreement with the Malaysian Health Ministry, The Star Online reports.

July 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - A Russian nuclear submarine that is to be leased to India and which was damaged in an accident that killed 20 people resumed sea trials Friday after extensive repairs, a defence official said. "The sea trials of the Nerpa nuclear submarine will continue for two weeks.

July 7th, 2009 BEIJING - Several hundred Uighurs staged a protest Tuesday as Chinese officials took a group of foreign journalists on a tour of Urumqi, the riot-hit capital of the far western region of Xinjiang. The protesters sat down after they were blocked by riot police, reporters in Urumqi said.

May 25th, 2009 BRISBANE - Former Bundaberg Hospital surgeon Jayant Patel will face separate trials on fraud and manslaughter charges. In a pre-trial review today the Crown agreed the eight fraud charges Dr Patel is facing should be heard at a separate trial from the three manslaughter and two grievous bodily harm charges he also faces.

May 8th, 2009 French hand over 11 suspected pirates to KenyaPARIS — A government official says France has handed over 11 Somali piracy suspects to Kenya for a judicial investigation and possible trial. It is the second time France has turned piracy suspects over to Kenya for prosecution.