BEIJING, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Preliminary findings showed that PVH Corp (PVH.N) , the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, engaged in "improper" conduct related to the Xinjiang region, China's commerce ministry said on Thursday, without elaborating.

The ministry plans to summon PVH in the near future, it said in a statement.

In September, China announced an investigation into PVH for suspected violations of market trading principles regarding Xinjiang-related products.

BEIJING, Dec 23 (Reuters) - China's video surveillance equipment maker Zhejiang Dahua Technology (002236.SZ) said that it and its subsidiaries have agreed to terminate or exit five projects they signed with local governments in China's Xinjiang region, a stock exchange filing showed on Monday. Some of the projects, awarded between 2016 and 2017, have been terminated in advance, while others were still in operation, Dahua said in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange. The company will cease operating the projects and proceed with asset disposal and debt resolution works,...

BEIJING, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer Hikvision (002415.SZ) said on Friday that it had exited contracts it has in China's Xinjiang region via five of its subsidiaries that were added to a U.S. trade block list last year. Hikvision, which calls itself the world's biggest maker of video surveillance equipment, said in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange that contracts with five local governments in the region were now terminated. The contracts began in 2017 and were meant to have a maintenance period of ten to...

China has changed the names of hundreds of villages in Xinjiang region in a move aimed at erasing Uyghur Muslim culture, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. According to a report by the group, hundreds of villages in Xinjiang with names related to the religion, history or culture of Uyghurs were replaced between 2009 and 2023. Words such as "sultan" and "shrine" are disappearing from place names - to be replaced with terms such as "harmony" and "happiness", according to the research, which is based on China's own published data. The...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party’s ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity, a report released by Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. About 630 villages in Xinjiang have had their names changed to remove references to Islam or the Uyghurs’ culture and history, according to the group’s report, done in collaboration with the Norway-based organization Uyghur Hjelp. The report compared the names of...

BEIJING, June 18 (Reuters) - Flash floods in China's Changji on Tuesday engulfed a car, and four people are missing, Chinese state media reported, as heavy rains and mudslides in several parts of the country cause widespread destruction and trigger mass evacuations. Emergency officials in the mountainous area of Changji, in northwestern Xinjiang region, said heavy rainfall in Miaoergou township caused flash floods and mudslides to block roads, according to CCTV news. Rescue forces rushed to the scene and found a car, but four people were missing, the report said....

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