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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 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 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 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 22, 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 Tibetan claims he was beaten in China embassy in Vienna
Vienne (AFP) March 21, 2008A Tibetan activist who burst into the Chinese embassy in Vienna and tore down its flag has claimed that he was then punched and beaten with a truncheon by security guards, a news report said. On Thursday, Tibetan protester Tso Tashi Taoh stormed the embassy in front of a crowd of 200 demonstrators and tore down the Chinese flag before waving a Tibetan one in its place. He was held in the bui ... more Pro-Tibet groups dispute China's version of Sichuan violence
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 US House Speaker slams Chinese 'oppression' in Tibet 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) March 21, 2008US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Chinese "oppression" in Tibet on Friday as thousands of Tibetan exiles cheered her arrival in this Indian hill town to meet the Dalai Lama. In a trip that 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 nearly ... more |
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Since the death of Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov in December 2006, foreign companies have been falling over themselves to acquire a piece of the country's vast natural gas reserves, estimated during the Soviet era to be between 10 trillion and 14 trillion cubic meters. Among Ashgabat's most ardent suitors are Russia, China, the United States and Iran. Fifteen months later, ... more Tibetans rampaged in northern province: govt spokesman 
Beijing (AFP) March 19, 2008Rioters demanding Tibetan independence have attacked government buildings and burnt down shops in northern China's Gansu province in recent days, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday. Xinhua news agency quoted a local government spokesman as discussing the unrest, in what appeared to be the first official reference to violence in provinces adjacent to riot-hit Tibet. Gansu government ... more US would welcome Tibet dialogue: State Department 
Washington (AFP) March 19, 2008The United States Wednesday called any potential dialogue between China and the Dalai Lama on Tibet "very positive." State Department Spokesman Tom Casey said the United States would "certainly encourage and call on the Chinese to engage directly in discussions with the Dalai Lama or his representatives." Asked about suggestions from Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Bejing woul ... more Dalai Lama asks world to help push for Tibet talks 
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
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