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From an introduction to an article on Yale Global Online by Dru Gladney, President of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College: Recent clashes between indigenous Uighurs and Han Chinese in Urumqi in China's Xinjiang province highlight the growing difficulty Beijing faces with regard to minority rights.

A model Uighur by most Chinese standards, Ilham Tohti is fluent in Mandarin, has a master's in economics and supports Beijing's plans to develop his native Xinjiang, the restive far western region that has been convulsed by ethnic riots in recent days.

Editor's Note: Tensions between Muslim Uighurs and majority Han Chinese escalated July 5 when a peaceful protest over the deaths of two Uighur workers in Southern China turned into riots, leaving at least 156 dead and more than 1,000 injured.

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The bloody riots in China's Muslim far west are a disturbing reminder of anti-Chinese violence in another troubled region - Tibet - and show how heavy-handed rule and radical resistance are pushing unrest to new heights.

A week after Central America's first coup in more than a quarter of a century, tensions were at breaking point in the Central American nation as ousted President Manuel Zelaya planned to return.

Dr. Randolph Chapman Lewis, a solo practitioner in preventive cardiology in Pasadena for more than half a century, has died.

Product: Software called ClearVision that allows Internet Service Providers to remotely manage the various devices used by their customers and to provide enhanced services, such as content filtering and Internet time blocking.

With California a day away from issuing IOUs instead of paying its bills, Gov. Schwarzenegger and the legislature remain at odds over how to close a now $26.3 billion deficit.

Probably not, considering he seems to lack the same fame-whore sheen as Timbo but you must understand that when any college student is running a hedge fund out of his dorm room, we have to ask.

Earlier in the decade, DePauw's faculty members recognized an opportunity. The University's academics ranked among the top baccalaureate colleges in the country, but DePauw students weren't winning nationally competitive scholarships at the same rate as other competitive institutions.

Andrea Kretchmer , daughter of Keith and Valerie Kretchmer and a graduate of Evanston Township High School, recently received a bachelor of arts degree in linguistics and cognitive science, with a minor in English, from Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.

The first Knights of Columbus Chino Valley Golf Tournament will be held Friday at El Prado Golf Course.

June 22 1936 Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas, the son of a minister.

Frederick E. Sontag, a professor of philosophy and venerated mentor to three generations of students at Pomona College, where he made headlines nine years ago for forgiving a mentally ill student who had stabbed him in the neck, died Sunday at Pilgrim Place Health Services Center in Claremont.

The current issue of Pomona College Magazine examines the future of news, drawing on journalist alums: Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times; Richard PA©rez-PeA a, who covers newspapers for the NYT; and Mary Schmich, the Chicago Tribune columnist who writes the Brenda Starr comic.

More than a thousand smiling faces flooded the Cal Poly Pomona College of Business Administration commencement ceremony Saturday, their diplomas confirming a major milestone.

Every year countless community supporters lovingly give their time and talents to benefit Pilgrim Place in Claremont.

The tweet in question might have been one of the shortest did-he-really-say-that comments in a long line of sports figures saying dumb things.

A Pomona College student out for a jog this morning was robbed by a man who asked him for directions, police said.