Death toll from road accident in Qinghai rises to 55
The death toll froma severe road accident that happened Monday in northwest China’s Qinghai Province rose to 55, local sources told Xinhua Thursday noon.
Fleeing Tibetans get help from Indian embassy
Tibetans fleeing their homeland to begin a new life abroad are finding their flight getting a little easier thanks to the Indian government. Since February 2002, the Indian mission here has been issuing them special entry permits to travel to India from Nepal.
Tsunami: Tibetans Support Victims
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has spearheaded a fund-raising drive in aid of tsunami victims, some of whom came from Tibetan communities in southern India.
Cry Mother Nature, Mammon Wins the Day Again
Official Chinese news agencies have reported that Beijing has decided to revive the stalled project to build 13 dams on Salween River (known as Gyalmo Nyulchu in Tibetan and Nu Juiang in Chinese).
Tibet has warmer winters since 1990s, meteorologists
Meteorologists in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region have found that the region has experienced more warm winters since the 1990s, indicating a trend of temperature rise in the region.
Chinese police arrest truck driver in accident that killed 54, injured 41
Police have arrested a man who drove a truck loaded with Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims that overturned in southwestern China, killing 54 and injuring another 41, the government said.
CTA Publication at State Book Fair
Raja Virbhadra Singh, the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, visited the Central Tibetan Administrations stall at the three day Rajiv Gandhi book fair which opened today at the courtyard of Sainik guest house, lower Dharamshala.
Designing Modernization To Promote Traditional Tibetan Medicine
Tibetan medicine has become a lucrative business yielding million-dollar profits to large pharmaceutical companies in China. Various new policies have been instituted to standardize the production and distribution of Tibetan medicinal products, mainly for commercial and bureaucratic reasons.
Fire Razes People’s Hall in Sichuan, Arson Suspected
A fire has destroyed a local government building in a traditionally Tibetan area of southwest China, and sources say arsonists may have set the blaze to protest Chinese rule in the region, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
CTA Expresses Sympathy For Tsunami Victims
The Central Tibetan Administration deeply mourns the death of thousands of people in the aftermath of the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunamis in South East Asia and East Africa.