silk road
- n an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles); followed by Marco Polo in the 13th century to reach Cathay
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- China jails 19 Uighurs for religious extremism
BEIJING (Reuters) - Courts in China's far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced 19 ethnic Uighurs to up to six years in jail for promoting racial hatred and religious extremism online, in the latest crackdown on what China sees as violent separatists. All but one of those jailed were from the heavily Uighur southern part of Xinjiang, including eight from the old Silk Road city of Kashgar ...
June 20, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Uzbekistan Setting Up Checkpoints On New Silk Road
Policymakers from the U.S., Europe, and Central Asia gathered last week in Riga to discuss the "commercialization" of the Northern Distribution Network, the military transport routes that ship military goods from the West into Afghanistan via the ex-Soviet states. The idea that the NDN can be converted into a "New Silk Road" of commercial Eurasian trade has been around for some time. And it's ...
June 19, 2013 - EurasiaNet - Bitcoin still sticks around
Bitcoin has shot up and crashed at least twice now.Exchanges where the fast-rising new digital currency trades have been hacked, and so have individual accounts. It's been linked to illegal activity in underground cyber haunts such as Silk Road, and sparked a move by the U.S. government to halt unregulated use.
June 16, 2013 - Times Leader