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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China tries two Tibetans over self-immolation
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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NW China police arrest self-immolation inciter
XINING – Police in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province said Thursday that they have arrested a Tibetan man who allegedly attempted to convince 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 that the man had stored gasoline...
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China’s EU ambassador moves to counter criticism over Tibet
By Martin Banks China’s ambassador to the EU Wu Hailong has responded to criticism of Beijing’s policies in Tibet, saying his country “deeply grieves” over the spate of self-immolations in recent months. But Hailong, China’s top diplomat in Europe, expressed concern at EU criticism of China over the tragedies. Dozens of Tibetans have...
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Buddhist Association of China calls for opposition to self-immolation
A seminar sponsored by the Buddhist Association of China was held in Chengdu last week to discuss the Buddhism view of life under the theme “compassion, mercy, and cherish life”. About 40 eminent monks, experts, and scholars from Han Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Theravada Buddhism attended the seminar. The participants pointed out that “compassion”...
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China labor squeeze caps rebound as BofA sees 6% growth by 2020
BEIJING — China’s growth rebound may be capped by a labor-force squeeze and shrinking resources that leave the government satisfied with rates of expansion as low as half the peak during the past decade. A pace of 7 percent to 8 percent reflects economic forces, Ma Jiantang, head of the National Bureau of Statistics,...
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Testing times for student admissions
University candidates who don’t have hukou, or household registration, in major cities have to take the entrance exam in their home provinces. Their parents are uniting to change the situation, as Feng Xin reports. Nonresident parents in Beijing have been signing a petition to fight a policy that will continue to limit their children’s...
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Yaks are back
IMAGE: Wild yaks cross the Tibetan Plateau near the edge of a glacier. A scientific team recently counted more than a thousand wild yaks in this region. NEW YORK – A team of American and Chinese conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and University of Montana recently counted nearly 1,000 wild yaks from a...
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