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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Internet access has reached even remote areas in the parts of China where Tibetans live. [24] However, sensitive areas of Tibet are often subject to communication clampdowns. [25] These blackouts, along with the ban of foreign journalists and human rights monitors, means obtaining exact numbers of self immolations in Tibet is difficult.
Hundreds of Tibetan exiles in India marched from the town of Dharamsala to the Indo-Chinese border, to mark their protest against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Indian authorities arrested more than 100 Tibetan protesters. [76] Indian police also arrested a dozen Tibetan exiles attempting to storm the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. [77]
The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also referred to as the 2008 Tibetan uprising in Tibetan media, [2] was a series of protests and demonstrations over the Chinese government's treatment and persecution of Tibetans. Protests in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, by monks and nuns on 10 March have been viewed as the start of the demonstrations.
Biden signed into law on Friday the Tibet dispute act, which seeks to push Beijing to hold talks with Tibetan leaders, stalled since 2010, to secure a negotiated agreement on the Himalayan region ...
The Tibetan sovereignty debate concerns two political debates regarding the relationship between Tibet and China.The first debate concerns whether Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and parts of neighboring provinces that are claimed as political Tibet should separate themselves from China and become a new sovereign state.