Tibetans will embrace the “Water Snake Losar” on Monday, which is New Year’s Day in the Tibetan calendar. For 2013, the date falls on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year and has been worked out by Tibetan experts on astrology and calendar calculations based on 2,000 years of research. Their findings...
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Self-immolators fueled by separatist Dalai clique
SITTING on the bare floor of her bedroom, Geru Gye, 17, wrote idly in her Tibetan textbook with a pencil. Her younger sister, Wan Khengyal, 16, burned herself to death in a meadow close to her house using petrol from her father’s motorbike on the evening of December 9, 2012. It was one of...
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No casualties after NW China quake
No reports have yet been received of human casualties or property losses after a 4.7-magnitude quake jolted northwest China’s Qinghai Province on Monday, said a local official. Dawa, head of the government in Zadoi County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where the epicenter was located, told Xinhua the county government had dispatched a work team...
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Wetland coverage expands amid collective efforts
XINING, (Xinhua) — Years of wetland conservation efforts by the government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals have paid off in northwest China’s Qinghai Province, which now holds the largest share of the country’s wetlands. By the end of last year, Qinghai’s wetland area had reached 8.16 million hectares, roughly marking a 50-percent increase from 1997,...
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China sentences another 6 Tibetans over self-immolation
Six ethnic Tibetans were sentenced to three to 12 years in prison for their roles in an October self-immolation case by a local court in northwest China’s Gansu Province Thursday. The Xiahe County People’s Court convicted Padma Tamdru, Kelsang Gyamuktso, Padma Co, Lhamo Tamdru of intentional homicide and sentenced them to 12, 11, eight...
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5.1-magnitude quake jolts NW China province
BEIJING, (Xinhua) — A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Zadoi County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China’s Qinghai Province late on Wednesday afternoon, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter of the quake, which struck at 5:27 p.m. (Beijing time), was monitored at 32.9 degrees north latitude and 94.7 degrees east longitude with a...
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China tries two Tibetans over self-immolation
Two ethnic Tibetans stood trial Saturday in a court in southwest China’s Sichuan Province over the case of eight people incited to self-immolate, three of them fatally. Forty-year-old Lorang Konchok and his 31-year-old nephew, Lorang Tsering, were accused of intentional homicide, according to a statement issued by the Intermediate People’s Court of the Tibetan-Qiang...
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Shanxi moves to preserve unique cultural heritage
Shanxi province is to form a cultural ecological protection zone that will encompass several central areas, including Pingyao, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The move is aimed at preserving the cultural heritage of the region and developing tourism, Wu Qinghai, mayor of Jinzhong, said on Sunday. He was speaking at the ongoing annual session...
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Quake-hit Yushu to complete reconstruction in 2013
Xinhua | By Agencies Reconstruction work in a quake-hit plateau region in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province will be completed this year, local authorities said Friday. By the end of 2012, a total of 1,224 reconstruction projects had been launched in Yushu prefecture with an investment of about 38 billion yuan($6.1 billion), said Kuang Yong,...
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Detained man ‘incited another to self-immolate’
Police in Northwest China’s Qinghai province said on Thursday that they have arrested a Tibetan man who allegedly attempted to persuade another Tibetan to self-immolate last November. Police in Tongren county said they thwarted a self-immolation attempt last year by 25-year-old monk Drolma Je after being told the man had stored gasoline in a...
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