Tibetan Capital

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Two earthquakes jolted the Capital of Tibet and surrounding areas last night, killing more than 30 people and collapsing hundreds of houses, China's state news agency said. Rescuers rushed in to try to save people buried in the rubble. ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 44 days ago
Thousands of Tibetan exiles gathered in the Nepalese Capital on Sunday to protest against Chinese rule in their homeland. ...

Source: edition.cnn.com --- 2 days ago
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will undergo a routine medical examination at a hospital in the Indian Capital on Tuesday, his spokesman Tenzin Taklha told CNN Sunday. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 17 days ago
LANZHOU, China -- Last year, local Communist Party officials relocated a 64-year-old Tibetan cattle and sheepherder named Lhabu to a newly created town called "Nomads' New Village," about seven hours south of this provincial Capital. The woman moved into a small brick-and-tile house, one of hundr... ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 86 days ago
Four months after the March 14 riots for a 'free Tibet' that left 18 people dead, 800 injured and destroyed property worth millions of dollars, life in this panoramic Tibetan Capital is limping back to normal. But there is apprehension among the people ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 39 days ago
Before and during the Olympics, the issue of Tibet was frequently in the news. In March, an anti-government demonstration in the Tibetan Capital, Lhasa, turned into a riot. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 88 days ago
Beijing, July 10 -- A British citizen of Tibetan descent was expelled from China this week as police clear the Capital of anyone they believe might draw attention to political tensions during the Olympic Games next month. ...

Source: www.boston.com --- 1 day ago
At least 30 people were killed in a 6.6-magnitude earthquake which was centered near the Tibetan Capital of Lhasa, according to Xinhua, which cited the local government. ...

Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 11 days ago
Beijing - China issued a government report Thursday praising its rule over Tibet and accusing the Dalai Lama of wanting to restore a backward feudal system in the Himalayan region. The white paper, published six months after riots and protests rocked Tibet, said the government had spent vast sums of money and manpower to protect Tibetan culture. But the 30-page paper issued by the State Council, China's Cabinet, also accused Tibet's exiled spiritual leader of spreading false rumors about cultural genocide in the region and said any moves to split it from China would fail. "The 14th Dalai Lama and his clique's clamor for 'cultural autonomy of Tibet' is essentially a political conspiracy to restore theocratic rule over the culture of Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabitated regions, and thus realize the 'independence of Greater Tibet,'" it said. The paper was issued about a month before an expected third round of talks aimed at easing tensions between the sides. The talks were started after monk-led protests against Chinese rule turned violent in the Tibetan Capital of Lhasa in March. Beijing has accused the Dalai Lama and his supporters of fomenting the unrest. Despite the two earlier meetings with the Dalai Lama's representatives, the government has stepped up its campaign to vilify the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. "The 14th Dalai Lama and his clique and the anti-Chinese forces in the West conspire to force the Tibetan ethnic grou ...

Source: www.charlotteobserver.com --- 23 days ago
Jigme, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, says he had just finished having a pair of shoes mended when four uniformed guards jumped from a white van and dragged him inside. Suppressing his calls to a passing nun for help, they shoved a sack over his head and drove him to a guesthouse run by the local paramilitary People's Armed Police. What followed, according to Jigme, was two months of interrogation and abuse over his suspected role in this spring's uprising against Chinese rule across Tibet and a broad swath of Tibetan-inhabited regions in western China. His telephone interview with The Associated Press on Friday gives one of the few detailed first-person accounts of the crackdown on the riots and protests that continue six months after the events. Chinese authorities contacted by phone said they had no information about Jigme's case, making his claims impossible to verify. But the basic facts of his story correspond with testimony given by monks and nuns detained in previous campaigns and widely reported by credible overseas human rights groups. While Beijing says an unspecified number of people have been detained following the protests, it has given no details about their treatment. Jigme has also posted a video account of his ordeals on Youtube.com. The 42-year-old monk, who like many Tibetans uses just one name, said he took no part in the sometimes violent protests that followed deadly rioting in Tibet's Capital of Lhasa on March 14 ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 1 day ago
Two earthquakes jolted the Capital of Tibet and surrounding areas Monday, killing more than 30 people and collapsing hundreds of houses, China's state news agency said. Rescuers rushed in to try to save people buried in the rubble. The U.S. Geological Survey said the first quake measured magnitude 6.6 and struck at 4:30 p.m. (0830 GMT) 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Lhasa, more than 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers) from Beijing. The second temblor measuring magnitude 5.1 hit about 15 minutes later, some 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of the Tibetan Capital, it said. Thirty people died and hundreds of houses collapsed in Gedar township near the epicenter in Dangxiong County, and traffic and telecommunications were cut. An unknown number of people were trapped, and soldiers and rescue workers were dispatched to the site, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Deaths also were reported in a neighboring county, Xinhua said, but no figures were available. The Lhasa airport and the Qinghai-Tibet railway - which stretches from western Qinghai province to Tibet - continued to operate, the agency said. ...

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Strong earthquake strikes near Tibetan Capital, killing 30 ...

Source: www.freshnews.in --- 1 day ago
A powerful earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale struck Tibetan Capital Lhasa Monday afternoon, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, officials said. The epicentre of the quake that hit at around 4:30 p.m. was located some 80 kilometres west of Lhasa, at a depth of about 8 kilometres, the State Seismological Bureau reported. Several [...] ...

Source: www.thaindian.com --- 1 day ago
Lhasa, Oct 7 (Xinhua) At least 30 people were killed Monday when a powerful quake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted this Tibetan provincial Capital in china, officials said.The quake occurred at 4.30 p.m. Monday. All the victims were from the Gedar township in Damxung county near Lhasa. Officials said many people might still be [...] ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 15 hours ago
Lhasa, Oct 7 (Xinhua) At least 30 people were killed Monday when a powerful quake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted this Tibetan provincial Capital in china, officials said. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 1 day ago
The Dalai Lama will undergo a second medical checkup in as many months while he recovers from exhaustion, a spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said Monday. The 73-year-old Dalai Lama leader is scheduled to arrive in the Indian Capital later Monday from Dharmsala, a north Indian hill town where he set up his headquarters after fleeing Tibet in 1959 following a failed uprising against Chinese rule. 'The Dalai Lama is going to New Delhi today for a routine checkup and will be back in Dharmsala on Oct. 9,' Chhime R. Chhoekyapa, the spokesman, told The Associated Press. ...

Source: www.moldova.org --- 19 hours ago
China Tuesday corrected the death toll in an earthquake in Tibet the previous day to nine from at least 30 that had been previously reported.The temblor struck a county near the Tibetan Capital of Lhasa, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.The report said the earlier reported death toll of at least 30 was based on non-authoritative sources and needed further check.The area that was hit worst by Monday's 6.6-magnitude quake was Yangyi Village in Damxung County, the report said.Rescuers had recovered nine bodies from the rubble and said at least 147 houses in Yangyi and neighboring villages had been destroyed. Another 11 persons were seriously injured, the report said, quoting a local government official. ...

Source: www.phayul.com --- 28 days ago
72 Tibetans were arrested by the police in the Nepalese Capital of Kathmandu earlier today. More than 100 Tibetan protesters gathered at the Visa section of the Chinese Embassy ...

Source: www.phayul.com --- 24 days ago
The 9 activists of the Tibetan Youth Congress who were earlier arrested for protesting the Chinese Foreign Minister’s visit to India have been released yesterday. The activists were protesting on Monday outside the Hotel Taj Mansingh Palace in the Indian Capital ...