China has taken drastic action to keep the poverty-stricken Tibet Autonomous Region (Tar), free of the deadly Sars flu virus. Foreign travellers are banned, international flights have been halted and internal Chinese flights cut back.
TAR Party secretary Guo Jinlong (second left) and TAR deputy Party secretary Yang Chuantang (on right), presenting a commemorative banner to ground and air units from Chengdu military district and ground units stationed in Lhasa, who had carried out relief flights to disaster areas in Nyingtri prefecture. 24/11/00 (Courtesy: Tibet Daily)
The Tibet Autonomous Region's Party Secretary Guo Jinlong is being replaced by another Chinese leader, Yang Chuantang, formerly his deputy, according to Radio Free Asia -a move that has been rumoured for several months.
The Chinese government should immediately release two Tibetan prisoners whose medical conditions are deteriorating sharply, Human Rights Watch urged today. The New York-based monitoring organization also called on the Chinese government
Forest rangers in northwest China's Qinghai province have arrested nine people suspected of slaughtering 1,000 state-protected Tibetan antelopes, state media said Sunday.
The Chinese government has issued a decree whereby eight thousand Tibetan inhabitants would be forcefully displaced in order to implement a major project in constructing seven Dams in Barkham County, Ngaba Tibetan Autonomous
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is to visit China in June, capping new efforts to foster friendship between the world's two most populous nations, Defence Minister George Fernandes said.
Ms. Ngawang Sangdrol, a petite soft-spoken woman, spent almost half of her 26 years in harsh Chinese-controlled prisons in Tibet because of her courageous activism for the freedom of her homeland.
On Saturday night, 10 May 2003, the wife and child of the South African ambassador to The People's Republic of China died in a motor car accident. The 44-year-old wife of the South African ambassador to China, Nthembu Khubeka
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama has said one should not be confined to monastic rituals, but should educate himself in such a manner that he is able to serve people at large. While developing education
