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Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2008A powerful earthquake hit northwest China on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck at 6:33 a.m. (2233 GMT Thursday), 140 miles (230 kilometres) southeast of Hotan city in Xinjiang province at a depth of 23 miles, it said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. ... more China's Yellow River floods town: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2008Yellow River floodwaters inundated an entire town in northern China on Friday amid frantic efforts to repair breaches to embankments caused by unexpected high water levels, state media reported. At least 10,000 residents of Duguitala in the Inner Mongolia region have been evacuated to a nearby desert area since water began pouring into the town on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency quoted a local ... more China builds observatory at South Pole 
Beijing (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 An international team led by China has installed an automated space observatory at Dome Argus, the highest point on the South Pole. The Polar Research Institute of China completed installation work last month on the fully robotic Plateau Observatory on the Antarctic icecap peak, which is 13,428 feet above sea level. Texas A&M astrophysicist Lifan Wang said data from the observato ... more Taiwan poll rivals put focus on better China ties 
Taipei (AFP) March 21, 2008Taiwan's presidential rivals pledged Friday to repair relations with big neighbour China as they stumped across the island in a hectic election-eve scramble for votes. Opposition frontrunner Ma Ying-jeou and ruling party chief Frank Hsieh put the focus back on Beijing after nearly a week bashing China over its military crackdown in Tibet. Hsieh, whose Democratic Progressive Party favours ... more China's crackdown on Tibet seen hitting tourism 
Chengdu, China (AFP) March 20, 2008Chinese travel companies specialising in tours to Tibet say they expect the security lockdown of the Himalayan region to keep foreign travellers out for up to three months. Chinese tourism authorities have ordered travel companies not to apply for permits for people wishing to travel to Tibet, and many foreigners have been diverted elsewhere or had their payments refunded, travel agents told ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2008Pro-Tibet groups reacted with incredulity on Friday to Chinese reports that police had merely wounded four people after opening fire "in self-defence" during unrest in southwestern Sichuan province. "At this point any statement the Chinese government puts out has virtually no credibility," said Lhadon Tethong from Students for a Free Tibet, based in Dharamsala, India. "We are seeing phot ... more 'Most wanted' list out as China ups pressure over Tibet
Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2008China stepped up its pressure on Tibetan protesters on Friday, releasing photos of wanted suspects who were captured on film in the worst rioting against Chinese rule in Tibet in nearly 20 years. But with security forces having been poured into Tibet and other Tibetan-populated areas of China, rights groups and activists warned of mass arrests and the possible torture of those taken into cus ... more US House Speaker slams Chinese 'oppression' in Tibet 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) March 21, 2008US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Chinese "oppression" in Tibet on Thursday as thousands of Tibetan exiles cheered her arrival in this Indian hill town to meet the Dalai Lama. In a trip that has angered Chinese officials, she flew into Dharamshala, seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile, to pay the first high-level call on the spiritual icon after anti-Chinese riots erupted in Tibet nea ... more Behind the chants, Tibet monks bristle at China 
Kumbum Monastery, China (AFP) March 21, 2008Nestled on a hillside not far from where the Dalai Lama was born, the Kumbum monastery, with its chanting monks, Tibetan pilgrims and burning incense, appears a picture of Buddhist harmony. It is an image that China's atheist Communist rulers are keen to promote as proof of the religious freedom they say is granted to minority groups. But monks here simmer with resentment at Chinese cont ... more |
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Dharamshala, India (AFP) March 19, 2008The Dalai Lama has appealed to world leaders for help in resolving the dispute over Tibet through "dialogue" with China, according to a letter released by his office Wednesday. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader also asked the international community to press Beijing to show "restraint" in dealing with unrest in his Himalayan homeland. "We remain committed to... pursuing a process of ... more China sees 'life or death struggle' in Tibet 
Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2008China said Wednesday it was in a "life or death struggle" over Tibet as dramatic new footage emerged of Tibetans rampaging on horseback and destroying a Chinese flag. With China deploying a massive security force to quash the uprising and sealing off flashpoint areas from foreign media, activists and a rights group warned hundreds of Tibetans believed arrested could now be at risk of torture ... more China deploys huge troop numbers to quell unrest: activists 
Beijing (AFP) March 19, 2008China has deployed large numbers of troops in its westernmost provinces to suppress Tibetan unrest, a witness and activist groups said Wednesday. Troop movements seemed to be particularly big in southwest China's Sichuan province, bordering on the Tibetan Autonomous Region and home to several mainly Tibetan areas, according to one witness. A foreign reporter travelling in Sichuan reported ... more China angered by British PM's plan to meet Dalai Lama 
Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2008China said it was "seriously concerned" by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's plan to meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. Brown's announcement that he would meet the Dalai Lama came after the British leader spoke by telephone to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and pressed him to end violence in Tibet, which has triggered a clampdown ... more
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