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Tessa Wong - BBC News, Asia Digital Reporter December 23, 2024 at 6:17 AM Beijing's plan to build another dam on the Jinsha river, which runs through Tibetan territories, led to protests [Getty ...
Laura Bicker, Koh Ewe and Flora Drury - BBC News. January 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM ... He fled Tibet to India in 1959 after China annexed the region, and has since been seen as an alternative source of ...
Analysis shows a magnitude 5 to 6 quake could occur in the same area in the near future, Meng Hui, deputy head of Tibet's earthquake administration, said at the news conference.
Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival (1999) PublicAffairs . ISBN 978-1-891620-18-8; Laird, Thomas. The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (2006) Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1827-5; Lin, Hsiao-ting (2011). Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–49. UBC Press.
The privileging of the Han people in ethnic minority areas outside of China proper, such as the Uyghur-majority Xinjiang and the central government's policy of settlement in Tibet, and the alleged erosion of indigenous religion, language and culture through repressive measures (such as the Han Bingtuan militia in Xinjiang) and sinicization have been likened to "cultural genocide" and apartheid ...
The Tibetan community in neighbouring India, where many Tibetans are settled, organised protests yearly on 10 March against the Chinese, particularly, in the town of Dharamsala - the fact that China is hosting the Olympics also featured prominently in the protests. [70] There were protests along the route taken by the Olympic torch.
A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities on Tuesday, killing at least 126 people and flattening hundreds of houses and causing ...
Authorities moved more than 47,000 people to shelters in earthquake-hit Tibet, Chinese officials said on Thursday, while rescuers widen a massive combing effort for survivors near the foothills of ...