Tibet News

China said only one Tibetan died and that too accidentally while the Tibetans were the ones guilty of illegal gold mining which led to the violent incident in Palyul (Chinese: Baiyu) County of Karze (Chinese: Ganzi) Prefecture in Sichuan Province sometime in the middle of August.

Timely emergency operation had helped to avert a bridge of the Qinghai Tibet Railway from being washed away by flood, reported China’s online Tibet news service eng.tibet.cn Aug 28.

To maintain the ongoing dizzying pace of development in ecologically fragile Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), PetroChina Co Ltd, China's largest oil and gas producer, is to build a 300 million yuan (US$44 million) liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply station in Lhasa, reported Reuters Aug 27, citing parent company China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC).

Chinese police in Palyul (Chinese: Baiyu) County of Karze (Chinese: Ganzi) Prefecture in Sichuan Province have on Aug 17 opened fire on a group of Tibetan villagers petitioning against a greatly expanded Chinese gold mining operation in their area, killing at least four people, reported Radio Free Asia Online (RFA) Aug 26 and other sources.
 

Chinese police in Barkham (Chinese: Ma’erkang) County of Ngaba Prefecture in Sichuan Province had arrested four Tibetan school students on Mar 17 this year for allegedly instigating fellow-students against the Chinese government, said Phayul.com Aug 26, citing an exile monk with contact in the area.

A Chinese Catholic woman has been praised for pulling off a rare feat of winning five Tibetan religious converts in Qinghai Province after she married into the family two years ago, according to a ucanews.com report Aug 24.

China may not officially admit it, but many scholars and local officials think deforestation and other manmade conditions played a significant role in the horrific mudslides that devastated Zhouqu (Tibetan: Drugchu) County in Gansu province in the night of Aug 7-8, according to a report in the mainland based popular //english.caing.com Aug 17.

A Tibetan intellectual has been arrested recently for speaking out about the situation in Tibet under Chinese rule. Kalsang Tsultrim, who in 2009 distributed widely a video recording of his testimony, was arrested on Jul 7 at Dzoege (Chinese: Ruo’ergai) County in Karze Prefecture of Sichuan Province, said Dharamsala-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Aug 22.

The authorities have fixed the number of dead from the rain-triggered avalanche of mud, rocks and other debris which hit Zhouqu (Tibetan: Drugchu) County in Gannan (Tibetan: Kanlho) Prefecture of Gansu Province in the night of Aug 7-8 at 1,435, with 330 others still missing, as of Aug 22, according to China’s official Xinhua news agency Aug 22.

China held in Tibet’s capital Lhasa on Aug 19-20 a meeting of the Public Security Bureaus of the ethnic Tibetan areas of the PRC, which includes the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) as well as prefectures and counties in Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan provinces.

Due to increased rainfall and rise in the thawing of glaciers, lakes in northern Tibet have been swelling over the past years, posing major geological and other dangers, reported China’s official CRIENGLISH.com Aug 21, citing Chinese experts.

China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), China’s biggest oil company, has said Aug 19 that its subsidiary PetroChina Co. would raise natural gas production at its Qinghai oil field by 42% this year to 6.12 billion cubic metres.

China may have taken its first step towards bracketing the Karmapa with the Dalai Lama.

The death toll from the rain-triggered avalanche of mud and rocks which hit Zhouqu (Tibetan: Drugchu) County in Gannan (Tibetan: Kanlho) Prefecture of Gansu Province in the night of Aug 7-8 had reached 1,287, with 457 others missing, as of Aug 18 at 4PM, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Aug 18.

The death toll from the rain-triggered avalanche of mud and rocks which hit Zhouqu (Tibetan: Drugchu) County in Gannan (Tibetan: Kanlho) Prefecture of Gansu Province in the night of Aug 7-8 had reached 1,270, with 474 others missing, as of Aug 17 at 5PM, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Aug 17.