By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, the Beijing bureau chief, reported last month from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Volkswagen said on Wednesday that it was disposing of its ownership stakes in ...

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German car giant VW said that it would sell its factory and test track in Xinjiang for "economic reasons." China has been accused of using forced labor from ethnic Uyghurs in the region.

VW announced on Wednesday that the plant in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in western China, and two test tracks in Turpan, Xinjiang and Anting, Shanghai, will be sold ...

Volkswagen has sold its plant in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China beset by accusations of human rights abuses, citing “economic reasons.” “There is no business case for (the plant ...

Apart from China, Uniqlo also makes clothes in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia. Uniqlo doesn't use cotton from China's Xinjiang region to make its products, Tadashi Yanai, the chief ...

The western region of Xinjiang is emerging as a fourth hub for Chinese coal production, creating a new well of cut-price supply just as the country tries to start weaning itself off the heavily ...

Fast Retailing did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The issue of sourcing from Xinjiang, where rights groups and the U.S. government accuse China of abuses against the Uyghur ...

Volkswagen AG will end its activities in Xinjiang, bowing to pressure from investors concerned about possible human-rights abuses in the western Chinese region. The German carmaker’s local ...

Beijing (AFP) – German car giant Volkswagen said Wednesday it would sell its operations in China's Xinjiang region, where Beijing has been accused of widespread human rights abuses including ...

SHANGHAI/BERLIN (Reuters) -Volkswagen will sell its operations in China's Xinjiang, it said on Wednesday, after years of mounting pressure to abandon its presence in a region where rights groups ...

Nov. 27 (UPI) --Germany's Volkswagen Group and its Chinese partner have sold a factory in the Xinjiang region of China, where accusations of forced labor dogged the facility for many years.